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Exporting products from CATALook store to XML

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dimitris
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9/21/2023 5:09 AM

Good morning,

I am trying to export the products from a CATALook Store to an xml in order to import them to another non-CATALook store. The technical support of the CATALook Store gave me SOAP access to the website but I couldn't find a correct solution to the problem. 

I tried using GetProduct(s) and GetProductOption(s) but unfortunately the first one returns only the parent products without the options and the second returns the options applicable to the current product but with all the values that are in that option even if the product I am trying to export does not have them, i.e. if a tshirt has "Color" Blue and Red, and the "Color" option has 10 different colors, it will return all 10 of them with no distinction to the specific product, so I can not distinguish which values are used by the product I want to export, or get the different price for each option etc.  

I have tried setting up a local installation of dnn and CATALook in order to study it but after many hours I couldn't get it to work properly so I wanted to ask you for any help you could provide. There is a method for executing sql queries through the api, could I use this? Or maybe could you point me in the right direction?

Thank you in advance for your time!

Will Strohl
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9/21/2023 11:16 AM

Wow... That's a "blast from the past." (RE: Catalook)

Executing SQL in code behind in DNN can be fairly simple to implement, using DAL 2.  The links below will help you implement them.  Specifically, the first link is full of other links toward the bottom.  The second link has some direct examples for you, including executing SQL statements and stored procedures.  

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