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Hello,

Recently we upgraded from Opencart 1.5 to v2.3.0.2 and have noticed something a bit odd with the 'layout column' with Exported products out of our store into excel.

Basically if I export all products from our store into excel (using the export/import tool v3 from MHCCorp) then in the Layout column most products have this field just blank in the excel spreadsheet, some products have an '0:' entered in the field in the excel sheet.

It appears that editting a product in our store admin panel results in that product then having the '0:' entry in the layout column after another export out to excel.

Not sure if its related but we are also getting the following errors a few times a day in the error log:
2017-04-10 10:13:10 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: description in /home/ourcompany/public_html/catalog/model/catalog/product.php on line 13
2017-04-10 10:13:10 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: description in /home/ourcompany/public_html/catalog/model/catalog/product.php on line 15
2017-04-10 11:32:14 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: description in /home/ourcompany/public_html/catalog/model/catalog/product.php on line 13
2017-04-10 11:32:14 - PHP Notice: Undefined index: description in /home/ourcompany/public_html/catalog/model/catalog/product.php on line 15

Should I enter 0: in the layout column for all products in excel and import that file back into our store ?
Are the above issues linked or are the php errors something else ?

We are using the default Opencart 2.3 theme with some custom modding tweaks.

There is no need to enter the '0:' value in the layout column. The format of the layout column value is a comma separated list:

store-id-0:layout-name,....,store-id-n:layout-name

where store-id-0 usually is 0 for the default store, and layout-name is a name of a product or category layout override.

If layout name is blank, or if the whole field is blank, then no layout override is used for the product.

Thanks for the response, all my products have a blank entry in layout field in the spreadsheet until I edit the product in my store, then that product has 0: in the layout field in the spreadsheet when next exported.

Is that normal ?

Yes, that's normal.