Business Hours import/export

Jeff, is there a way to import data from CSV for Business Hour fields at the moment? I’m confused about why I can get this to work for certain Business Hour fields but not for others, by adding new CSV columns with the Business Hours field names, like “sunday_open”.

Thanks,

Frank

Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear.

I was asking if I could IMPORT, using the GD’s built-in import/export tool.

I was able to figure it out. I added column headers (“sunday_open” “sunday_close”, etc.)
in the CSV file to listings, in new columns to the right of all the listing data and images. Doing this, I can quickly import data for your fields for all my listings.

This is a great feature that I think more of your users can benefit from. For instance, now that I can import data from CSV, instead of manually converting all the GD plain text business hours to the many open/close fields for your add-on, I can just send a CSV file with plain text hours to a virtual assistant (like Mechanical Turk) and have them format them under the proper fields and with consistent formatting for each day open/close.

I also found a huge bug in Business Hours which is what caused all my data to be wiped. If I use GD’s built-in import/export function to update my listings, as many GD members do quite frequently, it will wipe all the data for Business Hours fields. Since column headers for Business Hours fields aren’t included in the CSV export, when we update the doc and import it with updated data, it assumes that the values for all business hours fields are blank.

There must be some way to integrate your fields with the GD import/export function to fix this, and at the same time this would be very helpful for us to be able to update our business hours more quickly. When I add new custom fields for GD listings, they automatically appear in GD CSV exports, so I’m not sure why yours don’t.

Anyways, thanks for the replies and support, Jeff. I apologize if I came off as rude in other replies, but I was obviously very very frustrated from losing many hours of manual work because of this issue. Overall, we’re quite happy with the added functionality of your add-on, but we’re hugely limited until this import/export bug can be fixed.

Thanks!

Ok, then it’s not a bug, it’s that Business Hours is not compatible with a core tool of GD. Many GD users rely on GD import/export to update their listings, so it’s an important issue.

And I’m not sure how it works from GD’s back-end, but when I use GD’s import function in WP, it gives me the option to “Update listing if post with post_id already exists” and it keeps all its reviews and other info when I do these updates. Business Hours fields are the only data that disappear.

Stiofan previously added a column for “Claimed” to the CSV import/export because it was missing, so hopefully he can do something similar for this issue so that these fields appear for anyone with the Business Hours add-on.

Looking forward to a solution.