EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[mc12345678]

I am using easy populate to populate the data from different manufactures on my site, I currently load every product into my all products category and have been manually linking them to there respected categories from within the admin panel, this take a ridiculous amount of time to accomplish when it was only 100-200 products it was not that big of a deal, however I am no loading thousands at a time, I am wondering is there any way to tell easy populate to "link" the product not "duplicate" the product into multiple categories/sub categories, I read through the wiki page, and have searched all over the forum and have not been able to find the answer or if I did maybe I did not understand what it was I was looking at.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
J

When you say that you are using easy populate, are you referring to this version of it, or another?
With regards to this version of easy populate, the readme states:

2) You MUST use products_models to distinguish your products for import. Any record with a blank v_products_model entry will be skipped.
Also note that is you enter the same products_model twice, the latest record entry will over-write any previous entries. The exception
here is if you enter a different category; this will result in a linked product. "Duplicate" products with the same products_model number
is not supported. If you have these entries in your database, you may get unpredictable results.

So, it would seem that this will create two linked products if you change only the category for the product(s).

As for the way that new information has been updated, that does sound labor intensive, to import under a general group then to use the database to move it around, especially if you already know where it is going to end up. Why not just start with the desired location and bypass all the extra effort?

There are multiple ways to import information, each has it's own filename prefix, and each performs a slightly different action applicable to the data that you get when you export that type of file. It is rather easy, but unfortunately the documentation is currently limited. May have to review the code to figure out exactly how to get in what you are expecting. I can say this, if you export a file, then only rename the date portion of it at the end, it will upload the same data exported. Have to also watch what type of editor(s) used.