Hello,
Here is a question for magento experienced users.
My case is the following:
In a Simple Product
i've created a "serie" attribute that has a dropdown list type in order to let magento use it in "shop by" menu.
however, i'm importing data from existing legacy database.
i want to automatically create a new dropdown option from the old database "serie" value for the magento "serie" attribute if this option does not exist at "import" time.
my "import" script is independent from magento and creates csv file that can be used by magento import profiles.
however for "dropdown list" typed fiels,i need to ingest their option values in magento before they can be imported.
i'm interested both by API based solution and database requests.
i'm using Magento 1.4 so,and read many posts (including SO related questions) on internet that seems to be outdated.
Can you point me to a real working script or give me some hints on the way i can achieve this "not so trivial" task