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My client gets has car data supplied from portfolio, hpi or 2nd byte. They come along each week - photo the cars and take down the reg.
then they send back a csv file with all the car info based on the reg- colour, price, doors, age, owners etc and a tail of the options - and the pictures..

The importer works well with these - needs a clever ini file to cross match the csv with the autodirector table but makes uploading cars real easy.

I guess if any dealer tracks their car details in a spreadsheet this can make for easy importing into autodirector.

Hi Stooz. Glad you like the new import wizard.

The import profile is very powerful since it'll cope with any CSV format. However, you might need a little PHP knowledge if you need to add some complex rules, e.g. to split a column into different parts.

Obviously we can help, and we're happy for people to sell import profile creation services within this forum!

Craig, I have written a simple tool to extract the car views into a temp file on the server.
I then run the car import, and then another tool to import the car views back into the database so I don't loose the views each time. If this could be automated into the script in future versions, this would be great.

I agree. We may need to use identifying data, such as the registration number, but it's certainly possible.