Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

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Originally Posted by rspencer1762

...and files seem to have been downlopaded from a server as csv's.

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If you are trying to load a CSV file using EP 1.2.5.4 it will not work.

EP 1.2.5.4 requires the column (field) delimiter to be TABS, not COMMAS.

If the data-file is (for example) named abcdefghij.csv , open it in a plain text editor (such as EMERALD EDITOR), to see if commas are indeed being used to separate the field values.

If commas ARE being used, you will need to CONVERT these to tab spaces, and then save the file with a .txt extension.

My WIKI article deals with this in some detail...

EP will work faultlessly ONLY IF the data-file you are trying to upload is formatted properly. We routinely use EP to load tens of thousands of product records and we never experience problems, because I make sure that my staff pay meticulous attention to the formats that EP requires.

My question is from a technical perspective.

Why does Easypopulate use the names of the categories and even worse, why does it require that information by a number of levels?

Why can't the application simply use the category number (single level) and stuff the data directly.

Regards

Fred

Thank you so much schoolboy. I have got it worked out now as far as how to get the csv files into the .txt formatt needed. Thank you all so much for your help. I am starting to get my arms around the program but am still nervous. I have had a few times where it did not place the product into the proper catogories but it seems to be worked out. Now if i could just figure out how to make the site look better and figure out how to change sizes of fonts and boxes but that are questions for another area. Thank you again for your help.

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Originally Posted by FredZ

My question is from a technical perspective.

Why does Easypopulate use the names of the categories and even worse, why does it require that information by a number of levels?

Why can't the application simply use the category number (single level) and stuff the data directly.

Regards

Fred

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Nothing stopping you from re-writing it, Fred. It was written and provided to the ZC community for free many years ago and has probably been useful to tens of thousands of zenners.

This is the Opensource community. One of the protocols of the opensource community is that you never complain about a free module, plugin, avatar... etc.

If you don't like the way something works (or doesn't work) then (like many of us) make a contribution to improving it.

ive running zencarth and whatever version of easy populate i run it has me in a loop asking me to log back into the dashboard.

my admin area is called /manage is this the problem?

chmod files is all ok.

i read a few threads about this admin loop issue but none I could find had a solution.

anyone ideas?

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...196#post966196

Fixed the db cleanup bug
Added base datafeed for Avant Link

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Hello all,

Question....using Easy Populate is there a way to upload meta tag information for categories only. I've used it for products successfully but never categories.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you

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Originally Posted by kcb410

Hello all,

Question....using Easy Populate is there a way to upload meta tag information for categories only. I've used it for products successfully but never categories.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you

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Not yet, sorry.

How would I set up Easy Populate to import the fields in the Book Type addon? I need to import products using CSV, but also need these fields to import.
Thanks!