can I download instructions for easy populate advanced? I can upload all the CSV and/or tab delineated files I want, but I have no idea what to do after that.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
William
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can I download instructions for easy populate advanced? I can upload all the CSV and/or tab delineated files I want, but I have no idea what to do after that.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
William
William,
For further assistance, the support for advanced easy populate is located at www.zencartbuilder.com
When you successfully upload the easy populate file you compiled, all your products will be added to your catalog. You might then proceed to add attributes. If uploading doesn't work for you, you might want to try importing which is what I am doing. I hope this helps.
I need step by step instructions on how to use easypopulate. I purchased the advanced version and paid for installation, which has been completed. But I have NO IDEA how to use the module.
Any advice appreciated from you wonderful gurus, as always.
Thanks,
William
There should be a readme.txt file included when you purchased the advanced easy populate. In brief, you go to admin > Tools > Easy Populate to download a data template, for example Store. This file contains all the necessary fields to be filled out. Once your file is ready (saved as tab delimited file), upload or import the file in admin > Tools > Easy Populate.
Hello all!
I can't afford to buy EP advanced so I installed the older version.
Is there a limit to how much data could be moved to db with EP?I have 6500+ products I wish to add.
I tried to do it manually but that won't work with so many products so I got a pricelist in excel, that I've adapted into a products table with all fields Zen Cart uses in the SQLdb of my project, except I haven't had time to order them or do the pictures yet. My table puts all products in 1 category right now. I will build the category structure to get those category_ids sorted in the table for each product, because organizing those 6500+ products is most tideous and inefficient. Also, all products have the same image now, since I haven't had time to make more than a few hundred pics yet.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I use the EP v2_75 and I am making a multilingual site with finnish,german,english and swedish, so my descriptions list goes up to 25000+
My question is basically about the maximum amount of products that can be imported wit EP!?
Latest Free Version of Easy Populate for zencart isQuote:
Originally Posted by kairen
available from
http://www.modhole.com/modhole/index...ee1dd5f0802048
Version EP_v1.2.5.4.zip
Try adding 500 items at a time...
Each product MUST HAVE Unique product number
thx, I wasn't exactly sure which one to take from the two files. And 500 at a time is good to know. All items do have a unique product number. Haven't done anything yet, cause I lost myself on the web for a while :lookarounQuote:
Originally Posted by misty
Hi,
I have been using easy populate for a while now and I think it's brilliant although recently I have just noticed a problem I am having with it.
My supplier provides product feeds in xml format, I can convert the xml into csv and edit with excel/open office fine but sometimes the decription contains tabs which easy populate is treating as a column break. Even when the whole description is enclosed in quotation marks it still jumps a column so half of the description ends up as the manufacturer name or something.
An obvious solution to this would be if a different delimiter was available instead of just tab such as pipe |. I'm pretty sure easy populate doesn't support different delimiters but if anyone could give me some advice how to solve the problem other than manually editing every single description I would appreciate it.
Thanks
I do not know about EP Advanced, this may have this option to change?Quote:
// define(EASYPOPULATE_CONFIG_COL_DELIMITER, "\t");
$separator = "\t"; // only tab allowed at present
What are you using to convert the xml into csv ?
Does that mean if I edit that file and change /t to | that will be the delimiter?
I am using advanced XML converter to convert xml to csv, works very well.