I add new manaufacturers and products to my catalog once in a while. I've found it impossible to prepopulate data related to either as long as they're unpublished. If the manufacturer is unpublished, then I can't assign a product to the manufacture. If I can't make that assignment, I can't upload product images, I can't add a product description, etc. Is there a standard way to override this? Changing the start date to a future date does not help.