Re: Easy Populate support
awev,
You are a dear. Thanks for letting me know. I will see what I can do on the other end. I did purchase this from the publisher directly.
I have read that EP does not help with moving products from one category to another and so this is why I got EPA. It does.
My error as I see it now is I did an upload to the uploads directory and not the database. -------> EPA novice here. <----------
so when I did the import to the database, all went well except for the two test products I was trying to move. arrrrrrgh! It is not enough to simply change the category name. you need a path? Holy cow! what path?
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awev
Hello PeppyOne,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, yet I seem to be the one responding first. We don't support the paid version of EP (known as Easy Populate Advanced[EPA]) here, as the code is not readily available to look at, or modify. You will need to seek help from where you purchased it, or have them direct you to the correct place for help, if you didn't purchase it directly from the publisher.
Now the good news. Most likely EPA created a link, and you could check by looking in your store front. You may have to clear your browser's cache first. Worst comes to worst then remove everything from your store (items, not mods or add-ons), then use the revised file to upload everything to the correct categories.
Re: Easy Populate support
Hello again PeppyOne,
I think I found a link for you. It is http://www.zencartbuilder.com/suppor...mod_id=2&id=10
I can read the general forums, yet as I have not purchased the module I can't log into the support area, which is where the link leads to. Also, I don't have a copy of the manual/documentation :( From what I did see, and it was very limited, it looks as if the path is the cpath, what is coposed of category number and item number.
Re: Easy Populate support
Far be it from me to deny someone an opportunity to make a buck, but I thought the whole idea behind open source was to keep it free. Why is EPA even mentioned on this forum??? It is not open source as the person who modified the original script decided to charge for his work. If I were the among the "powers that be", I would remove every post that hinted at or mentioned EPA and I would also ban the writer from posting on this site.* Call me a hard case if you will, but open source means just that!
Why give free advertising to this "Not So Community Minded Individual"?
* Unless, of course, he is one of those powers. If so, then I am probably in deep dodo for posting this reply. :yuck:
Re: Easy Populate support
ZC is open-source, that does not mean all add-on products written for it must also be open source.
EP does have a free version though, and buying the paid version or not is your decision.
Re: Easy Populate support
Yep! you are hard nosed alright. I had no idea that EPA was not also part of this discussion. It was explained gently and since I understand now I will not get the support I need here, I won't return.
I do hope you are spoken to more gently and are "NOT BANNED" if you should ever make a mistake. Of course you probably don't make mistakes or have misunderstandings.
There are lots of very nice, friendly folks around here in the forums. Of course there are always exceptions.
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Originally Posted by
awhfy99
Far be it from me to deny someone an opportunity to make a buck, but I thought the whole idea behind open source was to keep it free. Why is EPA even mentioned on this forum??? It is not open source as the person who modified the original script decided to charge for his work. If I were the among the "powers that be", I would remove every post that hinted at or mentioned EPA and I would also ban the writer from posting on this site.* Call me a hard case if you will, but open source means just that!
Why give free advertising to this "Not So Community Minded Individual"?
* Unless, of course, he is one of those powers. If so, then I am probably in deep dodo for posting this reply. :yuck:
Re: Easy Populate support
Sorry PeppyOne,
Do stop by from time to time. The exchange of information is always good. And you are always welcome to ask a question. Just understand the limits we have in answering something related to only EPA.
Re: Easy Populate support
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Originally Posted by
peppyone
Yep! you are hard nosed alright. I had no idea that EPA was not also part of this discussion. It was explained gently and since I understand now I will not get the support I need here, I won't return.
I do hope you are spoken to more gently and are "NOT BANNED" if you should ever make a mistake. Of course you probably don't make mistakes or have misunderstandings.
There are lots of very nice, friendly folks around here in the forums. Of course there are always exceptions.
:hug: Sorry Peppyone, that jab was not meant to go your way. You just happened to tweek a knob with me on that issue. I am all for open source and I take issue will developers exploiting it, not with the buyers who need the features and don't have the skills to develope it for themselves. Guess I am not used to someone taking my rantings so personally, but I don't recall mentioning your name in my outburst at all. Set back, drink a wine cooler, and relax, life is too short to take everything I say seriously!
I would bet that the EPA person is not the original programmer who wrote the EP module (the license says it is open source), and therefore had dibs on it. If every module ever written (or reworked) had a pricetag, there would be no such thing as Zen Cart or osCommerce.
We all would be paying top dollar if we wanted a decent website (like the eCommerce people would love to us do)! Come to think of it, someone could do the same with a multi-product stand-alone (of course the mod in osCommerce wouldn't be of any use at all). It could be it coded and licensed all nice and legal, and I bet they could sell the heck out of it. I am nearly positive that he/she would share the revenue with the original coders, too (right)! Really would help this community, wouldn't it! Maybe a few might benifit from its' use, but not as much as it would help line the pockets of the person who did it. Enough said, I am off of this bandwagon!!
Re: Easy Populate support
Hi Guys.
I have my document (spreadsheet) ready to upload over 1500 items to the cart. BUT, there is a column in this spreadsheet that is used to calculate the price, Easy Populate is erroring when i try to do the import because of this column. Is there anyway of hideing this column from easy populate, yet keep it in the spreadsheet so that the pricing is right.
Many Thanks,
Steve
www.steve.com.au
Re: Easy Populate support
Hello Steve,
The easiest way that I can think of is to save two copies of the file. The first, or master, copy you leave alone, and keep the extra column. Next, select save as ... and give it a name like file_for_ep.csv or whatever you want. In the future just update the master and create an EP copy with the new info.
The other option is to create a heading for the column such as v_my_calc_price. Just hope that EP disreguards the column - as it should since you don't actually assing it to anything in the EP files.
Hope this helps.
Re: Easy Populate support
Thanks
AWEV. much appreciated
