Walkthrough: Importing catalog data

Start the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and, in the navigation tree, click Application Pools.

On the Application Pools page, click the name of the relevant application pool (for example, CommerceAuthoring_Sc9). 

In the Actions pane, in the Edit Application Pool section, click Advanced Settings and, in the Advance Settings dialog box, set the following values to 0:

Click OK.

Open the web.config file for the service you use to import the catalog data (for example, C:\inetpub\wwwroot\CommerceAuthoring_Sc9\web.config), and modify the settings marked in bold in the following configuration sample: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <security>
      <requestFiltering>
        <!-- For Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services), maxAllowedContentLength specifies the maximum length of content in a request, in bytes. -->
        <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="2147483648" />
      </requestFiltering>
    </security>
    <handlers>
      <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
    </handlers>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="false">
      <remove name="WebDAVModule" />
    </modules>
    <aspNetCore processPath=".\Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.exe" arguments="" forwardWindowsAuthToken="false" stdoutLogEnabled="false" requestTimeout="00:00:00"stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" />
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

In the memory cache plugin file for the service you use to import the catalog data (for example, C:\inetpub\wwwroot\CommerceAuthoring_Sc9\wwwroot\data\EnvironmentsPlugin.AuthoringMemoryCache.PolicySet-1.0.0.json) ensure that the Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Workflow.Workflow entity section has the parameter AllowCaching set to true. 

If not, change the value to true and then bootstrap the Commerce Engine to persist the change.

"Serilog":  {
   "Using": [
      "Serilog.Sinks.Literate",
      "Serilog.Sinks.File"
   ]
   "MinimumLevel": {
     "Default": "Information",
     "Override": {
       "Microsoft": "Information"
       "System": "Information",
   }
}

Reset the Internet Information Services.

In the Collections pane, expand the CatalogAPISamples collection.

Open the Catalog - API folder.  

In the Environment field, specify the Commerce environment where you need to import data  (for example, the HabitatAuthoring environment).

Click the Headers tab and, in the HTTP request, specify the following header key and value:

On the Body tab, specify the file you want to import. 

The following table describes the parameters for catalog data import:

To begin the catalog import operation, click Send. 

You can use the DevOps API to check the status of long running import commands.

Repeat this procedure for each additional catalog .zip file that you want to import into your Sitecore Commerce deployment.

If the Sitecore Identity token has expired, execute another GetToken request to get a new token.

In the Collections pane, expand the InventoryAPISamples collection.

Open the Inventory - API folder.

In the Environment field, specify the Commerce environment where you need to import data (for example, the HabitatAuthoring environment).

On the Body tab, specify the file you want to import.

To begin the import operation, click Send.

Repeat this procedure for each additional product inventory ZIP file that you want to import into your Sitecore Commerce deployment.

In the Postman Collections pane, expand the SitecoreCommerce_DevOps collection.

Open the Minions folder and click the Run FullIndex Minion - Catalogs items request. 

In the Body pane, set the environment to the Authoring Environment (for example, "environmentName":"{{AuthoringEnvironment}}").

To execute the request, click Send.