EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[linuxguy2]

Are you sure you're posting to the correct forum thread? The parent_id is not included in the export of the category information, neither the meta nor the model/category file(s).

Category assignment (generation of a category) is done through the product assignment. The details about the category are handled through either of the two other catefory files.

The format for a category designation using this plugin is to use the carat (^) between each category starting at the top of the tree such that if say there were women's shoes as compared to men's shoes, with shoes being a main category off of the store, then the categories field would have shoes^men\'s for shoes that are to be assigned as men's shoes, and shoes^women\'s for shoes to be assigned as women's shoes.

The code will determine the parent id for each category based on finding the category or identifying the need to create it. At the last category in the path, the product is to be assigned to that last category when the product is first created. If it already exists then it is linked to that category, basically.

This may be redundant but when I first started using EP4 I too struggled with importing "Categories" and a csv file Download/Upload that allowed for entering new Category ID's. IMHO the documentation is a bit vague on this for some of us.

As MC pointed out it can be done thru a Full-EP2018Dec20-230629.csv file.
Just create a new product with a new category and a new category with ID will be created.
I don't use sub categories but the readme says to use the carat (^) to add those.

The README.txt file ( included in attachment) in the zEasyPopulate-4.master-ZC.zip plugin download (section 3) spells that out.

The attached file would create a new Category called "Prod 001". The system will assign a new Category ID.
Be mindful of the settings in the Admin area ( Layout Settings > Categories with 0 Products Status ).

See these two files in the attached zip.
Hope this helps a bit.