EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[14all41]

No disagreement there that even the older version(s) work well. It's one reason I stuck with using it and doing what I could to keep it functional.

As for searching? Yeah I believe there are some things in the site left to be desired, but it works.

So, regarding the question at hand. Please correct me if I misunderstood, but it seems as if you would like to have a product listed in a category that has subcategories. If that is the case, ZC doesn't support that. Perhaps though you are asking for a product to be linked?

Explanation: categories either contain products or sub-categories, not both

Yes you understood correctly and i agree zen cart does not support that. Which I did not realize until today, never tried it before.
Is there a way to list the product in a two different subcategories at the same time?
IE list in, category: apple, subcategory: iphone4. Also list the product in category: apple, subcategory: all apple
What would that look like on the cvs sheet?

[DrByte]

Is there a way to list the product in a two different subcategories at the same time?

Yes. In the database, the extra subcategories would be reflected as additional records in the products_to_categories table.

[14all41]

Yes. In the database, the extra subcategories would be reflected as additional records in the products_to_categories table.

I get 4.0 installed and try that out. Thank you.

[mc12345678]

Yes you understood correctly and i agree zen cart does not support that. Which I did not realize until today, never tried it before.
Is there a way to list the product in a two different subcategories at the same time?
IE list in, category: apple, subcategory: iphone4. Also list the product in category: apple, subcategory: all apple
What would that look like on the cvs sheet?

Been a little while since I have looked at how/if linked products are supported (properly), but may need to include the mastercategories field may be necessary, but when creating a product, the categories are populated with the main/top category followed by the sub-category of that category with a single carat (^) between the two. I thought that if you added a new row with all of the same information, and thenmodified the categories structure then that product would be populated in that subcategory as well... The problem comes in if on export, both "products" are provided, and a change made to the first "product". The second occurrence of the same product will overwrite the original change with a new change when the file is uploaded with both rows still in the database.

So, in answer to the question if not mistaken, to create a linked product, export the database, change the category information for the product to be linked, import the database/or changed line, and now the product appears in two sub-categories.