Configurable products import doesn't work configurable_variations not imported

[piotrekkaminski]

From @akamura on July 28, 2016 20:16

Preconditions

1. PHP 7.0.6
2. MySQL CE 5.6.30
3. Magento 2.1.0

Steps to reproduce

Create a CSV with 3 virtual products and one configurable product.
The only attribute configurable is COLOR.
Add to the CSV (screenshot attached) the additional_attributes field, as well as configurable_variations and configurable_variation_lables.

Expected result

The import procedure should create three virtual products and one configurable and using the configurable_variations and configurable_variation_labels connect the three virtual products to the configurable one.

Actual result

Imported file:

Exported file:
As you can see Magento ignore both configurable_variations and configurable_variation_labels fields making the import successful but configurable products fail.

Copied from original issue: magento/magento2#5876

[piotrekkaminski]

From @akamura on August 3, 2016 9:40

Even in Magento official guide I haven't found anything related to configurable_variations or configurable_variation_labels

http://docs.magento.com/m2/ce/user_guide/system/data-attributes-product.html

This is very strange since if you create and configure a configurable product from the backend and then you export the CSV file those two fields have data inside.

I even did the following test:

1. Create a product configurable (3 virtual products, 1 configurable)
2. Save and export the CSV file
3. Delete the product created
4. Without editing the CSV file exported just reimport it
5. Magento create 3 virtual product and 1 configurable correctly but it didn't recognize the configurable_variations fields so the configurable product basically doesn't have any relation with the three virtual resulting in an empty product.

[piotrekkaminski]

From @AZVO on August 18, 2016 15:54

Hi

Thank you for your request, but unfortunately I can't reproduce this issue. I have CE 2.1.0 and one configurable product with 2 virtual products which were successfully exported and reimported. You can check my sample .csv file in attached .zip archive. Could you try to import it? And don't forget to reindex your indexes to have last data (http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-index.html#config-cli-subcommands-index-reindex)

Probably error can occured only with some specific data, so could you help me and provide detailed steps to reproduce the same situation as on your server? I will appreciate it!

Thanks!
I am looking forward to getting response from you.

sample.zip

[piotrekkaminski]

From @akamura on August 26, 2016 9:22

Hi,
import was successful but there is still a problem.

After import I navigate to the category where the configurable product is supposed to be, and the category is empty.
So I search for product SKU "CPr" and result is product not found.

I login to the backend and search for "CPr" as you can see Configuration is empty. If I manually create the configuration then the configurable product appear correctly on the frontend.

I tried with my CSV file also and the result is the same.

I'm running Magento 2.1.0

Thanks
Marcos

[piotrekkaminski]

From @AZVO on August 26, 2016 9:56

Hi,
Have you tried to rebuild your indexes after import?
You can find information about them in Admin-System-Tools-Index Management
And to rebuild index you need to use this command in cli
php bin/magento indexer:reindex

[piotrekkaminski]

From @akamura on August 26, 2016 15:56

Hi AzVo,
yes I executed the rebuild from the commandline but the product is still misconfigured.

I attach you my file that I have edited since I have different attribute_set and websites code.
catalog_product_20160818_143015 2.csv.zip

Thanks
Marcos

[piotrekkaminski]

From @akamura on September 2, 2016 17:52

@AZVO did you tried with my file?

Thanks
Marcos