Akeneo Product Cloner

Akeneo Product Cloner allows the admin to clone every kind of product. Using this module the admin can clone products, product models, and product variants. A clone of any product can be created by clicking on a single button.

While creating a clone of any product the admin only needs to enter the code for that clone and after clicking on the save button the clone gets created.

Please Note –

• This module is compatible with the Akeneo community and Enterprise(Flexibility) edition.
• If you want to use this extension on Akeneo EE Serenity mode, please contact us.
• For the Akeneo installation, your Akeneo server should meet these system requirements.

• Using this module you can clone products
• Clone product models
• Easy collecting of identical products
• Clone product variants of one-level variants
• By using ACL functionality, you may manage the permissions in the module.
• This module is compatible with the latest Akeneo version 7.0.x

Two different types of module installation processes are available for the module.

1. Composer Installation
2. Manual Installation

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Before beginning the composer installation:

1: Get the ACCESS KEYS [Create a support ticket]
2: In Akeneo composer.json, add our repository as well as the installation script.

For Akeneo 6.x  and 7.x

{
  "scripts": {
        "post-update-cmd": [
           "vendor/webkul/productclonerbundle/src/Webkul/ProductClonerBundle/install/config.sh COMPOSER=true NO_DOCKER=true"
        ],
        "post-install-cmd": [
           "vendor/webkul/productclonerbundle/src/Webkul/ProductClonerBundle/install/config.sh COMPOSER=true NO_DOCKER=true"
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
          "vendor/webkul/productclonerbundle/src/Webkul/ProductClonerBundle/install/config.sh COMPOSER=true NO_DOCKER=true"
       ]
   },
  "repositories": [{
    "type": "composer",
    "url": "https://akeneorepo.webkul.com/"
  }]
}

3: Use composer to install the extension.

   composer require webkul/productclonerbundle

4: Complete the authentication form.

5: Send a Message of Success

6: Delete your browser’s cache.

•  After unzipping the appropriate extension zip, merge the “src” folder into the akeneo project.
• From the PIM directory, run the following command over the NO-DOCKER Instance.

./src/Webkul/ProductClonerBundle/install/config.sh COMPOSER=false NO_DOCKER=true

•  Run the command below over the PIM directory’s DOCKER instance.

./src/Webkul/ProductClonerBundle/install/config.sh COMPOSER=false NO_DOCKER=false

Please follow these steps for installing the Akeneo Product Cloner module in your Akeneo PIM platform.

1 – Unzip the respective extension zip then merge the “src” folder into the akeneo project root directory.

2 – Goto config/Bundles.php then add a line:

   Webkul\ProductClonerBundle\ProductClonerBundle::class => ['all' => true],

in the return array.

3 – Copy the “config” folder into the akeneo project root directory for routing.

4 – Run this command after ssh to your akeneo server by the terminal.

php bin/console cache:clear --env=prod && php bin/console pim:installer:assets --symlink --clean --env=prod && php bin/console d:s:u --force && yarn run webpack

5– If you are using php-fpm. Then you need to restart the php-fpm services and apache web server.

For Akeneo 5

sudo service php-fpm7.4 restart

For Akeneo 4

sudo service php-fpm7.3 restart

Docker Installation Command :

For Akeneo 5

alias docker_php='docker-compose run -u www-data --rm php php';
alias docker_yarn='docker-compose run -u node --rm node yarn';
docker_php bin/console cache:clear --env=prod;
docker_php bin/console pim:installer:assets --symlink --clean --env=prod;
docker_php bin/console d:s:u --force;
docker_yarn run webpack;
docker_yarn run update-extensions;
docker_yarn run less;

For Akeneo 4

alias docker_php='docker-compose run -u www-data --rm php php';
alias docker_yarn='docker-compose run -u node --rm node yarn';
docker_php bin/console cache:clear --env=prod;
docker_php bin/console pim:installer:assets --symlink --clean --env=prod;
docker_php bin/console d:s:u --force;
docker_yarn run webpack;
docker_yarn run less;

Please follow these steps for installing Akeneo Product Cloner module in your Akeneo PIM platform.

1 – Unzip the respective extension zip then merge the “src” folder into akeneo project root directory.

2 – Goto app/AppKernel.php then add line

new Webkul\ProductClonerBundle\ProductClonerBundle(),

3 – Goto app/config/routing.yml then add these lines at top of file Sylius: resource:

product_cloner:
    resource: "@ProductClonerBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"
    prefix:   /

4 – Run this command after ssh to your akeneo server by the terminal.

php bin/console cache:clear --env=prod && php bin/console pim:installer:assets --symlink --clean --env=prod && php bin/console d:s:u --force && yarn run webpack

5– If you are using php-fpm. Then you need to restart the php-fpm services and apache web server.

sudo service php-fpm7.2 restart

Common Issues After Installation

It might happen that even after proper installation, upon opening your Akeneo admin dashboard, you see a loading screen. In that case, do check for the following solution:

• Webpack Installation: If you get the below error

• It means that web pack is not installed in your system. Run the following command

npm install --save-prod webpack
npm install

• Module routing.yml is not configured properly. Re-check the routing.yml file as mentioned in the 3rd step of Module Installation
• Clear your browser cache.

• From the PIM directory, run the command below over the NO-DOCKER Instance.

./src/Webkul/ProductClonerBundle/uninstall/uninstall.sh COMPOSER=false NO_DOCKER=true

• Run the command below over the PIM directory’s DOCKER instance.

./src/Webkul/ProductClonerBundle/uninstall/uninstall.sh COMPOSER=false NO_DOCKER=false

You can go through the Video Guide to understand how Akeneo Product Cloner works.