Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[kbmets7]

I used Easy Populate to place my products on the site in the primary categories. I am now attempting to place them into secondary categories, however, I get this message:

"no such current category path for this existing product"

I know the category path exists, why won't it work?

I am using the field header: ptc_categories_index_path

[elkbow]

So. No cares if froogle is chopped out of 1.2.5.4?

chop... chop... chop...

Actually I don't mind chopping out froogle, but also attributes too. They never worked for me but everything else works just great.

elkbow

[wcironsales]

Is this statement correct? "You can only use the file formats below"

I found this statment in message 1379

HumDaddy - You can only use the file formats below:-

You cannot just pick the headings you would like to import.

hankthtank - Try to download a 'Complete' file then add a product to the last row and import the file in that format and you will see this work.

Quote:
Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit (Attributes Not Included)
Download Model/Price/Qty tab-delimited .txt file to edit
Download Model/Category tab-delimited .txt file to edit
Download Froogle tab-delimited .txt file
Download Model/Attributes tab-delimited .txt file

[chadderuski]

Actually I don't mind chopping out froogle, but also attributes too. They never worked for me but everything else works just great.
elkbow

Yep, and we also need to RENAME the module to something a bit more UNIQUE. Mixed free modules vs EPA questions... makes it much more difficult for the casual installer to even know what is going on.

Once cleaned up it'll be a lot easier to add functionality. Would really like to just use the .xls format. THAT might eliminate a whole slew of confusion.

[TedNigma]

Yep, and we also need to RENAME the module to something a bit more UNIQUE. Mixed free modules vs EPA questions... makes it much more difficult for the casual installer to even know what is going on.

Once cleaned up it'll be a lot easier to add functionality. Would really like to just use the .xls format. THAT might eliminate a whole slew of confusion.

Got that right. I am still looking for instructions, or manual.

[chadderuski]

Got that right. I am still looking for instructions, or manual.

Well, there isn't any. However, if you are patient and willing you can go back and page through this entire thread. The *basics* gets explained over and over again.
Yes, a painful answer, but your best bet.

The basic functionality does work quite well. People have used EP to load 100K of products!

But, complicated store with lots of attributes is where EP stumbles. EP Advance was going to address this, but that seems to have stalled since last August when I last heard from Langer.

[madelina]

Hi there, hoping You can help with an EP problem i'm having...

The product database I received from my supplier is an Excel spreadsheet, but many of the product descriptions seem to have extra spaces, even bullet points in them - so when i compile my list of products as per the FullEP document, get them into the right headers etc... and save as a tab delimited text file, everything gets screwed up, presumably because anything other than a single space is an unknown character for a text file?

I hope that made sense... is there any way to quickly format all these Excel cells, to that they conform when i put them into my delimited text file? I have hundreds of products so going through each one by hand is well... a daunting prospect!

Thank you in advance,

maddy xx

[madelina]

p.s if anyone wanted to see their Excel file as an example I could provide that if it helps :)

[chadderuski]

p.s if anyone wanted to see their Excel file as an example I could provide that if it helps :)

Madelina:

Did you add a category & product manually first? If you load even 1 manually first, then download the full-export. This will give you your road map.

NOTE: EVERY line needs EOREOR or things go bad!

Also: HTML formating is OKAY in descriptions.

When you name your file, use the same name and just change the last 4 numbers.

I suggest breaking your data into smaller chunks until you get the hand of things. EP doesn't like smart quotes either ... they come out as funny characters.

Also be careful the use consistent category names... Smallwares and SmallWares are TWO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES and you'll get duplicate linked products.

You may also need to select "Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID" in the admin ->tools -> store manager ... and "Update ALL Products Price Sorter" doesn't hurt either.

[kbalona]

Ok I could probably find this by looking through the whole thread, but can someone tell me if there is a "paid" version of EZ Populate that works better/more functions than the free version, and if so where to get it?

EDIT: I found the modhole.com website, with EZ Populate Advanced. I'm willing to pay the $65 for it, but does anyone know if it's significantly better than the free version?
Thanks a lot