EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[chadderuski]

on second review it has something to do with utf8 categories and product names because none of the above categories or products exceeds the given length (the category is 22 chars and the size in the database is 32 so the length is not the problem). Perhaps someone expert in php can enlighten us?

I have not come across this issue myself and have tested on both 1.5 (UTF8), and 1.39h with/without UTF8. How are you creating your CSV file?

[spid3r1987]

very much appreciate this mod, brilliant

[spid3r1987]

just wondering when im trying to import products that are on special that it seems to state that they are products that are not available till 01.09.2012...
yet the other products i import(with the same date) show available from 09/01/2012...
does the specials part use a different date format??

[chadderuski]

just wondering when im trying to import products that are on special that it seems to state that they are products that are not available till 01.09.2012...
yet the other products i import(with the same date) show available from 09/01/2012...
does the specials part use a different date format??

Date handling "should" be the same... can you try using the "Model/Price/Qty (with Specials)" and see if there is a difference? There shouldn't be.

[chadderuski]

just wondering when im trying to import products that are on special that it seems to state that they are products that are not available till 01.09.2012...
yet the other products i import(with the same date) show available from 09/01/2012...
does the specials part use a different date format??

Spid3r,

Under Configuration -> EasyPopulate 4
What is your "Upload File Date Format" set to?

[stepgr]

I have not come across this issue myself and have tested on both 1.5 (UTF8), and 1.39h with/without UTF8. How are you creating your CSV file?

from within EP4 I produce a Complete products (with meta tags) and
then I edit the file in libre office and I only change the category
of some products.

[chadderuski]

from within EP4 I produce a Complete products (with meta tags) and
then I edit the file in libre office and I only change the category
of some products.

I am unfamiliar with Libre Office. Could you try using Open Office, and refer to an earlier post with instructions on exporting the CSV? OO will let you choose your character encoding on export.

[stepgr]

I am unfamiliar with Libre Office. Could you try using Open Office, and refer to an earlier post with instructions on exporting the CSV? OO will let you choose your character encoding on export.

It's open office actually and I did it also as in the previous post

[stepgr]

It's open office actually and I did it also as in the previous post

For some reason it doesn't like spaces in categories (and maybe product names but I'm not sure yet about this). For example I have two languages: Greek and English. When I try to import to a category named various (διάφορα in Greek) it doesn't complain at all, so it's not a utf8 problem either. On the other I hand I have a category named brass parts (ορειχαλινα εξαρτήματα in Greek ) and there is where the problem is shown when I try to import the file.

[chadderuski]

For some reason it doesn't like spaces in categories (and maybe product names but I'm not sure yet about this). For example I have two languages: Greek and English. When I try to import to a category named various (διάφορα in Greek) it doesn't complain at all, so it's not a utf8 problem either. On the other I hand I have a category named brass parts (ορειχαλινα εξαρτήματα in Greek ) and there is where the problem is shown when I try to import the file.

Hi Stepgr!

Spaces should NOT be a problem is you are using the Caret ^ delimiter between category names.
Could you post a sample of your data with the problems? Or you can PM me if you'd like.
Also, how are your languages set up? Is english 1 and greek 2? And what is your default language?

It is possible you found something I've missed on the multilingual category import! It WAS quite the challenge!

-chadd