cYon Posted February 16, 2004 Posted February 16, 2004 Is it possibile to have non-unique product_models? I sell toner cartridges and I'm populating the product_models field with my products part number. Now some cartridges will work with different model printers/fax/copiers so I want to list all the different printers/fax/copiers, however, this requires me to have multipile products with the same part number, which means I will have non-unique product_models and I'm having problems with incomplete data being imported due to that fact. Does anyone know if you can have non-unique product_models or some other way around my problem? Thanks in advance. Phil Quote
Guest Posted February 18, 2004 Posted February 18, 2004 in the admin section on the products, you will see where you can 'link' a product to another category, etc, once you see how that works, you can probably get it to work with ep Quote
♥ecartz Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 Does anyone know if you can have non-unique product_models or some other way around my problem?No, you can't. Easy Populate uses the products_model to determine which product you are currently uploading. Duplicate products_model values will cause the later products to overwrite the earlier ones. You may want to look into adding a meaningless string to all your part numbers, i.e. something like -0 for unique products, -1 for the second occurrence, etc. Another alternative would be to rewrite EasyPopulate, but you will probably find it easier to add the string unless you are relatively proficient with PHP/MySQL (or hire someone who is). If you do decide to modify EP, I would suggest adding more category fields (to add the second category path) rather than trying to make the products_model field non-unique. Hth, Matt Quote Always back up before making changes.
mutter Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 I needed different model names too, that i did was install the "Adding_Products_Field" contribution. The installation can be a little tricky for beginners like me, but i done in a minutes. But this contribution will resolve this problem, i don't know if this works with EasePupulate cause i didn't installed EP yet. Quote
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