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I cannot map category_ids in magento import profile after upgrading to 1.4.2.0?

See attached screen shot, cannot assign categories to products during import.

Even when I try to run it in advance export. It just give a blank page with navigation bar.

I searched an search cannot find any bugs or threads in the forum.

All I found was. http://magentoexpert.com/what-happened-with-category_ids-in-magento-1-4-2/

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Am I the only one facing this issue ?

Got this issue also, try to do some changes in your existing categories (Catalog > Manage Categories) , in my case I get an error :

Fatal error: Call to a member function getAttributeCode() on a non-object in /home/iphigento/domains/iphigento.com/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Catalog/Category/Tab/Attributes.php on line 137

I got a similar error when I tried to use magento store manager utility

Error Message “Attributes “Categories Path” were not found in attribute set Default”

Is there a way I can do a roll back to previous version ? Everything seem to be working fine until after the upgrade to 1.4.2.0

crxman - 11 January 2011 10:54 PM

Got this issue also, try to do some changes in your existing categories (Catalog > Manage Categories) , in my case I get an error :

Fatal error: Call to a member function getAttributeCode() on a non-object in /home/iphigento/domains/iphigento.com/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Catalog/Category/Tab/Attributes.php on line 137

What kind of changes are your referring to ?

What version did you upgrade from? There are significant Category differences between 1.3 and 1.4

Brent W Peterson - 12 January 2011 06:59 AM

What version did you upgrade from? There are significant Category differences between 1.3 and 1.4

I frequently upgrade when ever a notification is shown for any stable releases. Not sure but seems like i did upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4

Is there a fix that I can try ?

I am looking at the release log and i can see a quiet of issues around category_ids attribute.

Example.
Fixed Redundant catalog product attribute “category_ids” remains during upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4

But everything around categories seems to work fine > i can add remove sort. assign - un-assign products manually. (one by one)

It’s just that I cant use data-flow to assign categories to products. Which is a big inconvenience since i have a about 2000+ product scheduled to go live on the site.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Any solutions out there ?

Magento removing the field “category_ids” from catalog_product_entity table in version 1.4

I this the reason why category_ids dont show in import/export field mapping ?

Are you using Flat Products? I am sure the categories get exported then.

Hi Guys,

I\’m looking into this issue as well.

Another person has confirmed that this is an issue right out of the box with 1.4.2 as well so not only upgrades are affected.

He\’s currently trying to use advance profiles for the import to see if he can work around it.

Rhonda

Finally its the weekend and now I have some time to look into this issue.

First off I tried to search the database for term “category_ids”
The only hits I got were tables named dataflow_batch*
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So I decided to do a fresh install and check if i get different results.

Also when I tried to do the fresh install using the downloader I kept on getting Pear version Errors such as
pear/Console_Getopt requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.9.1), installed version is 1.7.1
pear/PEAR requires package “pear/Console_Getopt” (recommended version 1.2.3)

Luckily I found a solution.

For all the users having the same error you will need to update pear in the user account. If you use Cpanel and have access to ssh

go to

Run the following

If fails run the above code again
after successful update run the following in ssh

Go back to the install URL. and proceed with the rest of the install.
You might get a permission error just navigate to the location and use chmod 777 *
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Now returning back to my issue.

After a freshinstall on a different domain, I still dont see an option to map category_ids. (screen shot attached)

Also I did a full search on the fresh install database for the term “category_ids” result was “Total: 0 match(es)”

Has Magento made a big boo boo or this was removed from import/export on purpose ? Because there is a lot of talk about how category tables have changed after 1.4.0

Anyone know the ETA on 1.5.0 release ? Is magento working on this?
I have logged a bug here. http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue?issue=10662

Sorry for the long reply.

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rondata - 15 January 2011 08:53 AM

Hi Guys,

I\’m looking into this issue as well.

Another person has confirmed that this is an issue right out of the box with 1.4.2 as well so not only upgrades are affected.

He\’s currently trying to use advance profiles for the import to see if he can work around it.

Rhonda

I already tried that route.

I just gives a blank screen with Nav.

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Yes that was the results on his end as well.

Being the w/e—there’s not much I can do about this but I’ll escalate Monday AM and see what’s going on. I’m sure they’re aware of it because the issue is in the bug tracker.

Rhonda

rondata - 15 January 2011 01:58 PM

Yes that was the results on his end as well.

Being the w/e—there’s not much I can do about this but I’ll escalate Monday AM and see what’s going on. I’m sure they’re aware of it because the issue is in the bug tracker.

Rhonda

Thanks Rhonda. enjoy the weekend.

Darsh - 15 January 2011 08:13 PM

rondata - 15 January 2011 01:58 PM

Yes that was the results on his end as well.

Being the w/e—there’s not much I can do about this but I’ll escalate Monday AM and see what’s going on. I’m sure they’re aware of it because the issue is in the bug tracker.

Rhonda

Thanks Rhonda. enjoy the weekend.

It’s all good.. I’ll do my best to get you info as soon as I can.
please............... feel free to contact me directly rhonda(at) magento dot com