CFI

CFI adds an Import and export CSV button with an import and export dialog to the toolbar of the Joomla Articles and Featured Articles lists. Standard articles and the values of their custom fields are exported as a table; the file is edited in MS Excel or another spreadsheet program and uploaded back to the site.

A typical case is a price list built on Joomla articles. Changing prices in a thousand articles by hand takes a long time and invites mistakes. With CFI, the price list is exported from the site, prices are checked and updated in the spreadsheet, and the file is imported back.

Another case is moving an existing catalogue onto the site. Instead of creating every article manually, a file with the new items is prepared and imported in a few steps. Images are copied to the hosting separately, for example over FTP.

Features

• Export of standard Joomla articles together with their custom fields to a spreadsheet file.
• Import of articles and field values from a spreadsheet file, for creating new articles in bulk and updating existing ones.
• File format: CSV with a semicolon (;) delimiter, UTF-8 without BOM by default; for spreadsheet programs the plugin can convert the file to the encoding selected in its settings.
• The first row holds the headers: the required articleid column (0 for a new article, otherwise the id of the article to update), articletitle, and columns named after the custom fields' system names.
• An import and export button in the Articles manager toolbar.

For a catalogue built on Joomla articles, CFI can be combined with JL Content Fields Filter, which filters articles directly in a category, and Content Cart, a cart that emails orders to a manager.

Compatibility and requirements

• Joomla 4.
• Extension type: system plugin.