EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[algerdes]

All has been working fine with EP4 until we tried to modify the price of the items and upload back to the site.

Edits were done using a plain text editor.

All items are updating EXCEPT the price field. This is the standard price field, v_products_price.

I'm pulling my last two hairs out trying to find out why. It worked earlier, but nothing I do now will get it to work again.

Even used a fresh download from the site, just changed the price, and uploaded/inserted. No go.

Anyone have any ideas?

[algerdes]

Not quite sure why, but I was able to create a list from the site, edit it using notepad++ (really nice plain text editor), and reupload it to the site. The changes took! The difference here was that I did NOT change the name of the file.

Earlier in this thread I saw mention of naming conventions. Can we get a better explanation as to what is required to upload as far as the names required and any other item that could cause a problem?

[chadderuski]

Not quite sure why, but I was able to create a list from the site, edit it using notepad++ (really nice plain text editor), and reupload it to the site. The changes took! The difference here was that I did NOT change the name of the file.

Earlier in this thread I saw mention of naming conventions. Can we get a better explanation as to what is required to upload as far as the names required and any other item that could cause a problem?

Yes, several import have naming conventions so the script knows how to handle the import file. If you keep the first part of the name:

Category-EP
CategoryMeta-EP
Full-EP
PriceBreaks-EP
PriceQty-EP
etc...

Yes, you need to match case (but I can loosen that restriction in a future update).

Hope that helps.

[algerdes]

Good information.
Thank you.

[chadderuski]

Attributes Update:

Turns out I had no brave souls to test the pre-release code, so I will be putting this out into the wild soon... hopefully this weekend.

However, wanted to give people a chance to voice what columns they would like for the basic import.

Remember, the basic import ties a products_model to an products_options_name with a set of { products_options_values_name }.
I have mult-language support working correctly.

What attributes settings are the MOST common. The detailed attribute sheet will work to set any value in the table. So I'm not going to substitute that (it will over complicate in the initial import).

So if you have some feedback, now is the time to speak up and I'll see what I can do.

Once the new attribute features pass muster, I'll take this out of beta and submit to zencart's team for inclusion here.

thanks!
chadd

[SPH]

We make extensive use of attributes, mostly Colors for our dresses. (Sizes we can usually just copy across a category from a dummy product.)

Do I have the latest? My zip is called chaddro-EasyPopulate-4.0-9773477

sph
www.prommart.com

[darthun]

Hi,

I'm using easypopulate 4.0 with zencart and it's working like a charm. But i have many many subcategories, and haven't found a way to use zencart to setup the image path for categories. Is this possible ? How ?

[chadderuski]

We make extensive use of attributes, mostly Colors for our dresses. (Sizes we can usually just copy across a category from a dummy product.)

Do I have the latest? My zip is called chaddro-EasyPopulate-4.0-9773477

sph
www.prommart.com

Yes. This is the latest on github. I will try to get the new work posted this weekend.

-chadd