Quote Originally Posted by Trademagic View Post
I think it is working. I got the file, and it looked actually fine in my post above, except I question why the 1st example had so many quotes around the word Classic first few words. Is this because I used quotes in the actual filename? That could be dangerous, I guess, and I will change this to avoid confusion. What about the pictures? Does the file only need the image location, or am I looking for pictures here in the file. Also, if I use IH4, should I upload all pictures separately, or does the program do this in an integrated way?

To learn this best way possible, what should I read, the wiki?

Finally, do I import the OO file in the spreadsheet to change, or do I export the comma delimited quote enclosed text file itself? Thank you all for your knowledge and application of it to help others.
Marc
So, the double quotes are needed as part of importing/exporting the data to provide the final result of a single set of quotes around the word. There is no reason to avoid that if the desire is to have the word(s) in quotes when viewing a product on your website. It's just part of the process of converting what is stored to what is seen and vice versa.

As for the pictures, and just about everything associated with EP4, this plugin (and I have somewhat said this before) interfaces directly with the data that is presented in the store, so yes things can go wrong and negatively effect what is shown/done on the store. (Backup before making change, review/become familiar with affects of action taken.) Unfortunately there is little documentation associated with this plugin at this time, but the author has been working on that and it is why this is not yet an official zen cart plugin. To that end, the issue with/question about the pictures is related to how Zen Cart (and other plugins such as Image Handler) deals with pictures. Zen Cart requires a base picture name and picture file(s) associated with that name. The name is the path to where the picture(s). Are stored, and the base name for all pictures associated with that product. So to learn more about the picture part, there are wiki related entries to how to have more than one picture associated with a product. At the same time, if that knowledge is not learned, then it is possible to inadvertently have more pictures shown than expected.

So yes, you will need to also upload/verify uploaded the pictures that will be displayed. My recommendation would be to first upload the file(s) then to use EP4 to have them displayed (prevents any customer from not seeing a picture when the EP4 entry is uploaded.) The entry made in EP4 should reflect the base name (path included) when uploading.

As for the question of chicken and egg, I'm not sure I understand, but the process is this for a "first" time action: backup your database; download the EP4 data as a CSV; open the file using a program that can manage a CSV file (Open Office is recommended because out of the box it can be setup to export a CSV that will be properly interpreted upon upload), make the desired changes, additions, modifications desired; export the data from the editor (recommend a filename that ends differently than before); import/upload the file to EP4; maybe backup your database again in case changes made would be overwritten if the database was restored from the last backup; and then import the new CSV file from within EP4 and check the results. If the results are good, keep doing what you're doing, if not, then restore from your most recent backup.

So hopefully that answers that last question.