September 2022 Serenity updates

Fall is coming at Akeneo, but it doesn't mean that our Serenity releases are cooling down. With new automated SFTP import and export scheduling and catalogs for apps you'll get even more out-of-the-box functionality from Akeneo PIM.

Summary

Automate SFTP Imports and Exports

Type: New | Feature: Productivity| Available in Serenity EE and GE since September | 📖 Read the doc

Connect your product imports and exports to remote SFTP storage servers to securely transfer your data to and from Akeneo PIM. Simplify and streamline the import and export of data by using the Properties tab to turn on automation and run jobs on an automated, predefined schedule.

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Learn about scheduling your jobs

 

Catalogs for Apps

Type: New | Feature: Connectivity| Available in Serenity EE and GE since September | 📖 Read the doc

Catalogs for apps allows you to configure which products you want to share with an app. Determine the product selection that you want to distribute to you app by utilizing one or several criteria as filters. When an app uses catalogs to retrieve product data, it automatically enables the Catalogs tab and creates catalogs for this app in Akeneo PIM. Configuring these will help you distribute product data to your apps with more ease than ever before.

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What is an app?

 

Additional Data Cleaning with Tailored Imports

Type: New | Feature: Productivity| Available in Serenity EE and GE since September | 📖 Read the doc

Import your product data with greater ease with these continuous improvements to Tailored Imports. Now you can clean up HTML characters and make transformations like turning ™ into . Save time by removing consecutive whitespaces and trimming unwanted whitespaces at the beginning and end of your cells, too.

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