When importing a CSV if you allow us to assign a KEY to one of the fields we can use the csv import to overwrite data in current CMS items rather than Webflow creating an additional, duplicate item.
This to me feels like one of those things that should have been in the box with the delivery of the CSV, but then again if I could build it myself I wouldn't be asking you to ;)
Ed Bini
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This is soooooooooo cool! Thanks for shipping this crucial Update!
Wow. It works really well. I'm more than happy!
I could fix little but annoying things in no time.
Like this old bug i had, where some word spaces were too small on mobile devices (who knows why). So i could download my 235 collection items. Open the csv. Search and replace those spaces and voila! 2560 corrections done!
Same with similar issues in my text.
The only thing I don't have a proper workflow is with the richtext elements. The plain html in the csv, which makes it hard to work outside of the editor with it. Any suggestions?
One thing you could improve.
While changing the slug, the collection items are going from published to draft state. I realized it only after some time on the published site.
I needed to check all items and stage them for publish and publish the site again. no big deal. But I think, this could be done better, by just inform/warn us with a note, when changing the slug or after changing the slug in the summary of the import.
This works beautifully now. Thank you.
Good news. It's now possible to update CMS items via a CSV upload. https://webflow.com/feature/easily-manage-and-update-large-cms-collections
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I assumed that this would be default behaviour until I recently tried to reimport items from an previous Webflow export :(
Ideally it would be a checkbox: Override existing items with matching ID
This is a massive gap for anyone trying to sync content/collections or bulk import with bi-directional referencing - would love to see this prioritized!
Such a basic feature... how can this STILL be missing???
WTAF as if you don't have this feature. It's actually very annoying YET AGAIN WF is lacking basic features
Upvoting. As some have said, this probably should have been 'in the box' with the CSV feature. Not being able to externally update a collection list makes Webflow unusable for certain projects.
Would very much appreciate an update on this.
Has this been addressed? If you're importing and updating, say, a product inventory... not having the ability to overwrite items based on some common element (url, or title), makes syncronizing an inventory with an external system (via CSV) impossible, without completely deleting the existing webflow inventory and re-uploading it every time. Yikes.
Any updates on this?
If not having this function, large scale migration would be a nightmare.
Much needed especially when you need to updated hundreds of records.
We need this feature.
Was very disapointed when I found out this was not possible. Much needed!
1000% needed, this would make product management much easier, say I need to change the tax code for many products, I have to go into every individual product and change the field.
Whereas with overwrite I could assign this tax code to all the products at the same time in excel or google docs, then upload it and boom, it's done.
Absolute necessity this features. We also need to be able to export a .csv of any given collection. As the data may have been updated by the client.
Same feelings! It's very frustrating to not be able to update via CSV some fields!