Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

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I have searched the site for an answer to this but only found another that asked the same question and it was not answered.

I have installed Easy-Populate 1.2.5.5. easy-populate did not show up under admin-tools but was in admin-configuration. Ran the install from the browser address bar. got message stating installed successfully and created file in temp folder. I can bring up the easy populate page by entering the admin/easypopulate.php in my browser bar but should there not be a heading or listing in admin-tools for easy populate also? If so, any ideas since there are not any error messages showing?

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Marketeria2008

Hello all, new to the Zen Cart world.
Using Zen Cart v1.3.8a
new install of Zen Cart
I am using Easy populate v 1.2.5.4 for doing inventory updates.
Searched within the forum for info, but did not get any hits during the searches.
Can manual run the Easy Populate updates with no problems. However, when running
http://Mysite domain/shop/admin/easypopulate.php?localfile=Output.txt
the update only goes to the Easy Populate page for updating. Is not reading the ?localfile input. Any ideas?
Hoping to go live in the next few days.

[FONT=Verdana]I didn't see the support thread for EP CSV, hope I'm not too far off. This is for Easy Populate 1.2.5.5.csv ZC 1.3.8a[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]Are there any known issues with downloading large csv files?[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]When I try to download, or create a copy in /temp, I get an HTTP 500 error on both the Complete & Model/Attributes CSV[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]It's been running great previously, never had a problem before. But I'm wondering if we hit some type of filesize limit for downloading the csv. We've been adding new items.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]We have around 10,000 items in Zen Cart. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]The other download options, model/price/cat,etc work fine.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]I just get the errors while trying to download the 'Complete' file, and also the 'Model/Attributes' file. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]Thoughts? (Thanks in advance).... [/FONT]
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Have you tried a "test" on both formats, using just a couple of products so that the file size is tiny?

Create appropriate EP files with just 3 or 4 products, then test it.

I have been using easy populate with good results for a couple of weeks. There is just one issue I can't solve.

I want all my items to have an active status all the time and be able to checkout zero quantity items. When I use easy populate to update the quantities of items they often have zero quantity, but I still want them to appear.

I set the v_status to 1 for easy populate yet zero quantity items are disabled. What can I do?

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Originally Posted by coolglobal

I have been using easy populate with good results for a couple of weeks. There is just one issue I can't solve.

I want all my items to have an active status all the time and be able to checkout zero quantity items. When I use easy populate to update the quantities of items they often have zero quantity, but I still want them to appear.

I set the v_status to 1 for easy populate yet zero quantity items are disabled. What can I do?

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This may work for you if I understand what you are trying to accomplish.

Try setting the quantity to 1 for everything and go to configuration/stock and change substract stock to "false". You would probably also want to set allow checkout to "true" as well as set the check stock level to "false". Everything will always be in stock until you actually disable it manually.

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Originally Posted by coolglobal

I have been using easy populate with good results for a couple of weeks. There is just one issue I can't solve.

I want all my items to have an active status all the time and be able to checkout zero quantity items. When I use easy populate to update the quantities of items they often have zero quantity, but I still want them to appear.

I set the v_status to 1 for easy populate yet zero quantity items are disabled. What can I do?

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The one thing that may be causing your problem is if you are using the model-price-qty ep upload. There is no way that I know of to keep the status set to active for 0 quantity products that way. If you were to use the full ep upload, you could edit out the fields that you don't need (be careful there)and change the status column from 0 (inactive) to 1 (active) with a global edit on that column. The zencart does not care if the qty is set to 0 as long as the other 3 options that I mentioned earlier are set correctly and the status is set to active.

Ok I tried the full ep upload with every v_status at 1 and the items of 0 quantity were disabled. :dontgetit

I do need items to have a quantity of 0 to enable my "back in stock notification" module. So cannot use the first option.

Strange, I would have thought that uploading a v_status of 1 would enable the product? Not so. Any more ideas are welcome.

I also found that uploading the file with just the model, v_status and the end column has no effect also.

Is it possible change the v_status en masse in phpMyAdmin?

Sorry, three posts in a row!

Answer thanks to Bunyip on another thread:

From Admin > Tools > Install SQL Patches, run this sql query:

UPDATE products SET products_status = 1 WHERE products_id > 0;