Easypopulate quantity prob

[bkpie]

Problem:

I have some products that I have to set to inactive. ie click out of stock so button is red in admin even though there may be 100 pieces in quantity because I can not show this product at this time.

Also Some I set to active but have zero in quantity so it shows the product but then shows my out of stock button.


When using easypopulate to change prices model/price/qty download it inactivates products with zero in quantity and activates ones I do not want activated with say 50 in quantity.

Solutions tried:

I have uncommented in different places $v_products_quantity
in the easypopulate.php which in certain instances removes it from the model/price/qty download so that column is not there but then it still defaults to qty 1. I tried uncommenting where I thought that was and I get all kinds of errors.

Question then is

How do I get it to ignore changing anything to do with quantity in the database and stop it from making things active and inactive

Thank you in advance

[bkpie]

Ok I hate to bump this but after a week with cluster headaches ouch! I can not figure this out. I believe it is in this part of the code in easypopulate.php

// default the stock if they spec'd it or if it's blank
$v_db_status = '1'; // default to active
if ($v_status == $inactive){
// they told us to deactivate this item
$v_db_status = '0';
}
if ($zero_qty_inactive && $v_products_quantity == 0) {
// if they said that zero qty products should be deactivated, let's deactivate if the qty is zero
$v_db_status = '0';
}

All I know is when I change customer group prices using easypopulate Model/Price/QTY I do not want it to mess with stock or activating or making products inactive at all

I have played with the code all over this file and can not get it. I think I am just migraine blind! and I might not be smarter than a 5th grader

ANYONE?