Magmi import attribute_set always as “default”

Question

When using Magmi the value in the column attribute_set is always imported with the value default while the values in the import file are defined as attribute_set in the backend.

Example: The attribute_set value banden is always imported with the value default.

Example of the import file:

store   attribute_set   category_ids    sku

admin   Banden          3               BF2156516HLON

I tried with _attribute_set as wel as with attribute_set (with and without underscore).

Answer 1

attribute_set is not "imported", it's only a reference value to find attributes. here your file does not need attribute_set at all since all you can do with that few data is to update category_ids.

attribute_set is only used when creating a new product , in "update" mode, it's not used at all.

Answer 2

The example above is just a part of the beginning of the file. The file has 88 columns, so I only posted the first 4 columns. My problem is indeed when creating new products. There are products in the import file with the attribute_set "banden" and products with the attribute_set "runflat". So, when creating new product from the import file I also need the attribute_set value that is in the import file.

When I import a new product it gets te attribute_set "default" instead of "banden" or "runflta" as per value of the importfile.

Sorry if my english is not good.