Apsona ShopAdmin - a free tool for import/mass update/reporting

thank you - great service. So much easier than the 2 -step preview/update in zencart admin for editing products.

havent tried out the upload/download feature too much yet - seems to be pretty straightforward.

It will help to have all my manufacturers - is a long list if the limit was at 50 but since I'm using for size, I need quite a few. Thanks for looking into it.

cheers
Leah

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Thank you. We can guarantee that no data ever leaves the Zen Cart server. We have no access to your data under any circumstance.
This is no different than any other hosted service.
For more information, please check out the following link:

http://apsona.com/pages/ec/howItWorks.html

We will be happy to discuss your security concerns and also provide a more detailed exposition of the Apsona hosted architecture. Please contact us directly from our website.

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This looks a security concern for me. As I understood, the addon will try to connect to apsona server and download something, how can we trust those download codes?

fei2010 - I'm not sure I understand the security concern. Conceptually it is no different from any other automatically-updating software system. This architecture enables us to quickly make available bug fixes and feature updates to our software.

Moreover, the code is downloaded only into your browser, not into your Zen Cart server.

We do our best to ensure that our software is safe and error-free. With over 250 users now, I would say that if we make mistakes in the security area, we'd be hauled up very quickly.

Please feel free to follow up with specific concerns you might have, and we will gladly respond.

Hope this helps.
Apsona
http://apsona.com

Got to say, only just come accross this addon, and its absolutely fantastic, the kind of module/addon that Zen Users im sure have been crying out for.

I just cant get over how easy it is to create your own filters, like for example listing customers from certain countries, creating custom reports, its just amazed me so far, and seems too good to be true. Its the kind of big change I would expect in a Version 2 Zen Cart too be honest.

Amazing work, well done :clap:

Hi Sridhar,

Trust you are will.

Your probably aware that ZC have released a new update, 1.3.9e.

Before I go and do the update of the ZC files, Do you know if there are any issues that would prevent ShopAdmin from running..

I'm sure there wont be, but I guess it's better to ask prior than, than try to fix problems after.!

Thanks,
Mike

Mike_Dean - Thanks for asking, I'm doing well! :smile: The new ShopAdmin version is now available, and yes, it does work with Zen Cart 1.3.9e.

Regards.

Installed Apsona last week. Most excellent!

One thing I have noticed is that the description field sometimes does not properly propagate the data and shows as empty when in fact data is present in the database. If one enters this field through Apsona (make no changes) and then saves, the product is updated and the description field is emptied of data.

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One thing I have noticed is that the description field sometimes does not properly propagate the data and shows as empty when in fact data is present in the database. If one enters this field through Apsona (make no changes) and then saves, the product is updated and the description field is emptied of data.

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That's very odd, I haven't been able to reproduce it. Can you give me some more information as to the exact circumstances under which this happens? I'm assuming you're talking about editing the description of an existing product?

I'm actually doing edits to the meta tag descriptions but noticed that on perhaps 5% of my products (all products) have no description showing, yet everyone of my products has a description. Also occurs on my testing server (another domain, same VPS). All descriptions are composed in similar format with first paragraph no <p> tags, second with; some also include photogaphs, eg <img src="/images/.. etc. However, testing shows this makes no difference. I can't see anything out of the ordinary between products which show descriptions and those that do not, seems quite random.

Apache 2.2.15, Php 5.3.2, zen 1.3.9e, mysql 5.1.4.8.