Easy Populate causes problems to Multiple Categories Link Manager

[milobloom]

I have been using Easy Populate alot.
Seems that when I do, It adds the same Catagories every time to
The Multiple Categories Link Manager. So now I have Hundreads of the same Catagories Names making this function almost impossable to use.

Im running umm. Not 3.0, but the one before it.

Thanks

[Kim]

...and this is a bug in Zen Cart, how?

[DrByte]

Moving this post to the contributions area, as it's related to Easy Populate

[langer]

Milo, what is "Multiple Categories Link Manager"? Another contribution??

[DrByte]

Milo, what is "Multiple Categories Link Manager"? Another contribution??

You can access it a couple ways:
- Admin->Catalog->Categories/Products ... find a product and click on the "C"(copy) button. You'll see a new button at the bottom of the "Copy To" sidebox.

- Admin->Catalog->Categories/Products ... find a product and click on the "A"(attributes) button. Under the "Edit Product" and "Price Manager" buttons at the top of the page, there's a clickable link to the Multiple Categories Link Manager.

- mydomain.com/admin/products_to_categories.php

[langer]

Thanks Chris. So it appears to be linked products.

Milo, Easy Populate should only create a linked product where you have provided the category columns & these have a new category for an existing product - this is the default EP behaviour. Is it doing something else??

[milobloom]

I think what I did was upload a huge file.
Then went and deleted the entire directory.
Then re-uploaded.
Anyway. There are like 50 entries for the same Directory name.
It puts an ID# next to each.

The thing is I use the multible catagories alot. (I dont think it was an add on.) Maybe I am the only one who uses it.

Anyway. I have been using a newer version of EP. I dont think its adding more probems.

Like I mentioned however. This only happens in this section. Many of the same folder names. But not in the categories/Products section.

I just wanted to get my Multible Links Manager working properly again.

[langer]

ok. I'm confused. What is "Multiple Categories Link Manager"? Is it an addon? Are you able to provide a link to your site to describe it, or to the download if a module?

[DrByte]

What is "Multiple Categories Link Manager"? Is it an addon?

No, it's built-in. It's essentially an interface to create additional products_to_categories table records for a given product.

/admin/products_to_categories.php

Accessible as I described in previous post.

[langer]

Thanks Chris. i think I'm suffering sleep deprivation.

I think what I did was upload a huge file.
Then went and deleted the entire directory.
Then re-uploaded.
Anyway. There are like 50 entries for the same Directory name.
It puts an ID# next to each.

Milo, what procedure did you use to "delete the entire directory"?