Swinton,

Does 3.0.3 work with ZC 1.3.9 ?
I was using 1.3.9g and now have updated to 1.3.9h. The reason I tried Easy Populate Advanced 3.0.3, which is the paid version that has no support on this forum or on its own forum, because I read that it worked with a second language, and my second language files had categories problems, where the Spanish category names were not showing up. Since I have 172 categories this was important for me. I tried it out of desperation, and it fixed all of the categories, and gave me a wonderful spreadsheet with everything in it.

However, it had several problems. There was a problem with the program suddenly throwing in a min/max statement and not showing the quantity-changeable box in the shopping cart page. These problems were fixed by adding extra columns to the spreadsheet which showed those quantity-related items (which also could be changed by hand in the editable product page in Admin).

There were instructions in the password-protected knowledge base to simply add the columns to correct the error. As the columns were already in the products_description table in PHPMyAdmin, it was a simple column addition in Excel.

Not in the instructions was the fact that an additional column had to be added to render the quantity box on the cart page able to change quantities; that column was v_qty_box_status.

Not easily seen in the download was the fact that the categories had to be uploaded separately, and the format to do this is a bit complicated compared to the method of separate columns in Easy Populate 1.2.5.4, which is the stable version of Easy Populate.

Well, once I solved the above problems, and went through the testing to see if it added the music product type, as explained above, I have just prepared my file for download of products in the general product type.

Unfortunately, the download behaved just as it did for the Music Product Type. It actually removed all of my descriptions from the Admin-editable product screen, so that the descriptions are visible in my cart but not editable.

As occurred with the Music Product Type testing, I suspect that if I enter a single thing into the Admin-editable product screen, I will have to enter every blank space by hand and the products will disappear from the cart until I do that.

Thus, I am going back to Easy Populate 1.2.5.4, which I found will actually export a file with the appropriate columns for the second language categories and descriptions, once the language pack is added to the cart. It was imperfect, but maybe I will have more luck now that I understand more about the Zen Cart and Easy Populate structures.

So, that is my experience with the paid Easy Populate Advanced 3.0.3, which I hear is a great program. I would certainly like to use it, if I could find a solution for the products not appearing in the admin-editable screen.

Notageek