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10 Sep 2008, 3:50 PM
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Move Several items at once?

I am trying to change around my site and I need to move several items to new categories. It has become very monotonous moving them all one by one and I was wondering if there was a way to move multiple items at the same time?

10 Sep 2008, 4:03 PM
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Re: Move Several items at once?

There's no function in Zen Cart to move several at once. There are two approaches that you could use. The first is Easy Populate, but that might be a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The second is to update the database directly, but this requires some knowledge of the database structure. Basically Zen Cart has a table called products_to_categories which is just a list of pairs of products and the categories in which they are displayed, so you can edit this table directly using a tool such as phpMyAdmin to change a product's catgeory or categories. But of course, it would be wise to backup your database first.

11 Sep 2008, 1:31 AM
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Re: Move Several items at once?

I only have about 1100 items left to move. I guess I can do it manually. I did the first 1500.
Thank you so much for your help!
I guess I can add it to the suggestion box.