Easy Populate Category Change

[greatbig47]

Easy Populate may be the greatest thing since HTML and sliced bread, but I'm having trouble getting it to change categories on a big scale. Please help me figure what's wrong with this picture...:

I currently have almost all of my produacts in one category, which is presently "For Pets". Obviously not waht I want...

I'm trying to use easy populate to sort my products into the right category.


So I change the category on the txt file, upload and import my exstore_XXX.txt file and this is what I get (for a majority of the products):

SKIPPED! - Product Index: 21 - no such current category path for this existing product



What am I doing wrong? Anyone? I've attached a copy of my .txt files just for kicks.

Thanks!!!

-Stu (greatbig47)

[DrByte]

EP is great for managing products.
Managing links to categories ... is another story.
EP will link a product to additional categories nicely ... and will import new products into a category nicely.
But moving it around is more challenging.

To move one you have to do an add and a delete, as I understand it.

Perhaps this may work:

v_products_model     v_status      v_category_1    v_category_2
ABCDEF               1             Widgets         NewSubcategory
ABCDEF               9             OldCategory

Langer could correct me if I'm wrong ...

[greatbig47]

I think you're right. Thanks for the info about moving to different categories.

I was just reading the article on running it all from an Excel Spreadsheet, and that appeals to me. I couldn't quite figure it out, but I like the concept.

Since I have most of the info already on the site, perhaps using Excel/OpenOffice would be a better way of moving the information around. The data will be shared across more than one site (i.e. products, ID's, inventory, descriptions, ....), so if I could take care of it all on one excel file, life would be great.

I notified langer re: this post, and I'll be using his talents for an hour or 2 in the near future.


-greatbig47

[g0d4lm1ty]

this is actually God send for me... I have tons of products.... moving them around is definately a pain.... 1 question.... can you delete them and move them to another category without deleting the picture?

i had to re upload the pics after I did that....

thanks.....

[tuncay]

hi may be you find the answer by now but just in case. i think i have an answer for that connect with ftp client to your web site and change the name of the image folder delete it and load it and change back the name to image.
and the pictures isn't going to be deleted.

maybe it works, maybe not