Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

Hi scrat , yes your right it is getting off topic - sorry and your help is much appreciated.

Regarding easy populate I have been reading through the posts but am still finding it hard to understand how to load a basic .csv file or tab delimited. I have read the read me file that comes with it.

I have been given a data feed from commission junction but when i try to uplaod it i get an error which read

No model field in record. This line was not imported

Im not sure if i need to create the categories before i upload the feed and maybe this is the reason why its not working. Or do i need to change the headings of the datafeed so that they match the Full-EP2010Mar27-0707.csv file which i some how managed to get after installing easy populate and imported the file from the temp file.

After viewing this file i noticed that it only had headings and not any data. Now im not sure if this is a file which would have had data if i had products in my store. As it stands i am experimenting on a brand new store with no products in it.

Thanks for all your help so far and i will be sure to take my python queries elsewhere.

I uploaded a test file to my store and now I need to remove the test data to upload my real file. How do I go about doing that? Do I just use the EP download feature or is there some other way?

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Originally Posted by outeredge2

I uploaded a test file to my store and now I need to remove the test data to upload my real file. How do I go about doing that? Do I just use the EP download feature or is there some other way?

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In the SAME test file (txt file) change v_status values to 9, then run that file through EP.

v_status = 9 means "delete the product".

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Originally Posted by schoolboy

v_status = 9 means "delete the product".

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That's a great little tidbit of information. Is there a place where this kind of knowledge about EP is collected and kept? Something a bit more brief than this forum?

I wrote a tutorial on EP:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

Great wiki, schoolboy. Is there some way for a link to this to be inserted at the top of this thread? It might eliminate a lot of questions.

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Originally Posted by schoolboy

I wrote a tutorial on EP:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

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Originally Posted by mzimmers

Great wiki, schoolboy. Is there some way for a link to this to be inserted at the top of this thread? It might eliminate a lot of questions.

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I agree. This is really a good Tutorial on it. It is my fault with some of the items as I don't read it correctly or i miss read it but to all those other Newbies like me... read it fully and most of your EP answers are in there.

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Originally Posted by schoolboy

I wrote a tutorial on EP:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

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thanks alot schoolboy

just what i was looking for -

ive followed the wiki and have made changes to the data feed in the EP format - however its not working - i keep getting the error

No model field in record. This line was not imported

If someone could have a look at the file i have amended to see what i am doing wrong i will be very grateful.

it can be found at the following address

http://buycheaplcdtvs.com/books.txt

thanks

abs007 You have to have this column => v_products_model for EP to work as EP uses this column to update the database, reread the wiki as it does tell the required columns for EP to work.