EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[fairestcape]

Yes, the one MAJOR drawback in using CSV as the file format for Easy Populate, is the enormous potential for errors when content contains commas or quote marks.

EP version 1.2.5.4 used a TAB-DELIMITED system, which is far, far safer and more reliable than CSV - because TABS are not used anywhere in the formatting of the content.

I do not use EP 4 because it is a huge mission to clean up the content, and I have had too many disasters where a single comma (missed in the clean-up) has caused major damage to the site's product data and configuration.

If EP4 created TAB-DELIMITED files, it would be an excellent module.

[chadderuski]

Yes, the one MAJOR drawback in using CSV as the file format for Easy Populate, is the enormous potential for errors when content contains commas or quote marks.

EP version 1.2.5.4 used a TAB-DELIMITED system, which is far, far safer and more reliable than CSV - because TABS are not used anywhere in the formatting of the content.

I do not use EP 4 because it is a huge mission to clean up the content, and I have had too many disasters where a single comma (missed in the clean-up) has caused major damage to the site's product data and configuration.

If EP4 created TAB-DELIMITED files, it would be an excellent module.

Open Office properly encapsulates commas, tabs, single and double quotes. MS Excell seems to do it's own thing which changes from version to version.

There are some complications with utf-8 data and certain odd characters. This usually results when incorrectly opening files of different encodings, especially certain windows encodings.

[Kevin205]

How would you properly format and send

1'6" x 1'9"

through EP4? It is used in v_products_options_values_name_1.

[chadderuski]

How would you properly format and send

1'6" x 1'9"

through EP4? It is used in v_products_options_values_name_1.

If you use open office and use: FILE > SAVE AS > Text CSV (.csv)

Open Office will encapsulate it as:

"1'6"" x 1'9"""

You don't need to do anything special.

-chadd

[tenashi]

Still having trouble, probably something simple. Link to sample file I am trying to upload below. The categories are already in place. Not sure what the protocols are for "model" field. I can enter products manually, and those products appear and download appropriately. But when I upload I see the .csv file (using OO and utf-8) listed but products do not appear in the catalog. What's up?

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6FE...it?usp=sharing

Thanks!

[tenashi]

Still having trouble, probably something simple. Link to sample file I am trying to upload below. The categories are already in place. Not sure what the protocols are for "model" field. I can enter products manually, and those products appear and download appropriately. But when I upload I see the .csv file (using OO and utf-8) listed but products do not appear in the catalog. What's up?

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6FE...it?usp=sharing

Thanks!

Okay, got it sorted out; info was in forum, just reading it wrong...doh!

[chadderuski]

Hey Tenashi,

Sorry, was down all week end. Glad you found solution though.

-chadd

[tenashi]

Not to worry I seem to have at least one baffling new problem a day! Today's may or may not be related to EP4. The situation is that after I upload several test products, the "What's New" box on my main page lists them all twice. If I remove all products, the box is empty. When I reload the four products with EP4, each appears twice in the box. I also have been using Copy Categories and exploring different ways of setting up category structure. So maybe something to do with that, or with cached data...? Ideas?

View site

Thanks!

[chadderuski]

Not to worry I seem to have at least one baffling new problem a day! Today's may or may not be related to EP4. The situation is that after I upload several test products, the "What's New" box on my main page lists them all twice. If I remove all products, the box is empty. When I reload the four products with EP4, each appears twice in the box. I also have been using Copy Categories and exploring different ways of setting up category structure. So maybe something to do with that, or with cached data...? Ideas?

View site

Thanks!

It may be that linked products (the same product in multiple categories) is why your seeing it listed more than once. I'd ask this question in the general forum. EP4 does not affect how new products are listed.

[tenashi]

ok thanks for narrowing it down, will try that next.