EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[chadderuski]

Ah, I see that config now. I must have overlooked it right under the Meta Data item. It is, and was before, disabled.

I removed EOREOR and uploaded a new copy of the CSV file with several new products included. The "update" products retained their product type, but the "new" products are still being added as "product type 2", even though they are marked as "1" in the spreadsheet...

This is a prime example why I strongly recommend to always use Dr. Byte's MySQL Backup tool. You should run a backup before you import any files to ensure you understand them correctly.

If you have a problem, you can simply roll your store's data back by restoring your backup.

To fix the products_type error, you will need to delete these and re-import them.

[SPH]

This is a prime example why I strongly recommend to always use Dr. Byte's MySQL Backup tool. You should run a backup before you import any files to ensure you understand them correctly.

If you have a problem, you can simply roll your store's data back by restoring your backup.

I strongly second that. I've long since learned to back-up before any EP upload (and I try to get my sister and her people to do the same on her sites.)

And Dr. Byte's back-up mod really simplifies that, no longer having to go in to cpanel and myphpadmin (or whatever its called) to manually download the DB. In fact, first mod I install now on my various demo sites is this DB back-up mod, as I'm always messing around on those sites. (Only thing: this DB backup mod doesn't seem to work well if your DB/UN password has strange characters other than numbers and letters.)

[chadderuski]

GITHUB UPDATED WITH PRODUCT TYPE FIX

Default product type has been fixed. If you enable music products in the config, and enter an artists_name, the product type will be set to 2,
otherwise it will be set to 1.

This is a quick fix. Will look into something more detailed later.

-chadd

[mrmcastle]

Hi everyone. I'm a happy user with EP4 and am curious if this can be done: convert inventory items that were originally general over to music. So I've updated the "show music" genre in the admin. I've updated my inventory by: changing type from 1 (general) to 2 (music) , added the music fields to my database, and then uploaded the database with no errors. But when I go into the inventory, the music fields are not showing. It's weird: if I create a new music inventory item, all of the music fields are on my screen to enter. My thinking is that once you have created a product under "general" it cannot be converted to "music" If that's wrong, any suggestions would be really appreciated.

[mc12345678]

Hi everyone. I'm a happy user with EP4 and am curious if this can be done: convert inventory items that were originally general over to music. So I've updated the "show music" genre in the admin. I've updated my inventory by: changing type from 1 (general) to 2 (music) , added the music fields to my database, and then uploaded the database with no errors. But when I go into the inventory, the music fields are not showing. It's weird: if I create a new music inventory item, all of the music fields are on my screen to enter. My thinking is that once you have created a product under "general" it cannot be converted to "music" If that's wrong, any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Some more information is needed to help through this situation.
ZC version?
EP4 version?
When saying that have changed the products_type from 1 to 2, please explain how/where.
Does the export of a manually entered music product look the same as an export of one entered using EP4? Is this what you are talking about when looking at "inventory"?
What custom field import filter(s) are applied as found in the configuration screen for EP4?

As to product types, well, the general thought is that product product types should not be changed at least after the product has been created and is part of the store. It doesn't mean that they can not be changed. The issue centers around some of what you are seeing. How to populate the other data related to the product if the product type is now x and what to do with the old/unrelated data when the product type has changed? For example if a music product is converted to a product general product, won't there now be fields associated with the music product type that are populated but not used?

[mrmcastle]

Sorry, that's a lot of info I forgot to mention. I'm using ZC 1.51 and EP 4.0.24 I know these are older versions but the site is working fine and you know what they say... if it ain't broke don't fix it. I don't take credit cards... send my buyers to Paypal which is very secure so I'm not really too worried about all the security issues mentioned in the forum. (Please let me know if I my thinking is wrong on that).

When I enter a new item manually using the Product-Music category, the screen looks like the attached picture A. So after modifying my inventory (using a spreadsheet and then filling in those music fields) I assumed they would show up like that picture, with those fields now displaying the info. Instead, the music data from EP4 goes nowhere. If I go into category and look at the items I've updated using EP4, those 3 fields are not there. I am assuming that after I change product type from 1 to 2 and then fill in all of the music fields (artist, recording company, genre) they should show up, but nothing. I just did an export from EP4 and those fields I updated with the music infor are not there. It's weird because after I import them in, it shows those fields as having been added on the confirmation screen.. but I guess they are not.

[mc12345678]

Let's take a step back to see where the issue really is.

First consider a product that was manually entered in the admin as a music product.

If you export that record, is all of the desired music related information in the export?
If you modify some music related aspect of that one product and upload a file that has just the headers and that one product, then import the file back into the database, does it get updated with the new information?