EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[waterbender]

Advanced Easy Populate is not compatible with 1.5.1 as I understand it. Which is the reason I made the switch recently. It required me to make some changes to the files the EOREOR record is no longer required. The files are CSV instead of tab-delimited. You must upload the files prior to import and split them if necessary instead of streaming the import. I found this to be much faster than Adv EP. Overall I think this version is as good or better. It does everything I need it to do. I'm having a small issue with the long text description field but that may be unique to my situation. Still trying to figure that out. One of the changes with Categories is using the ^ symbol instead of ~ to delimit the categories. Overall once I got used to the changes I like this version a little better than Adv EP. You can install EP4 in 1.3.9h and use them both if you haven't upgraded to 1.5.1 yet while you transition.

Thanks for these helpful info, mc12345678 and scubasteve.

A few more questions:
"You must upload the files prior to import and split them if necessary instead of streaming the import."
- Do you mean I have to upload the file and then click import? Where do I upload the file? Is there a limit on the number of products?

"I'm having a small issue with the long text description field but that may be unique to my situation."
- I use long description regularly. What issues are you experiencing?

Can someone show me a sample files with all the necessary field titles? These are the fields I use in advanced easy populate. Are they totally different now?
v_products_id (How do I use products_id as the unique primary index in EP4?)
v_products_model (If products_id can be the primary index, can products_model field still be used?)
v_products_type (Do I still put "Product - General" in this?)
v_products_image
v_products_name_en
v_products_description_en
v_products_url_en
v_specials_price
v_specials_date_available
v_specials_expires_date
v_products_price
v_products_weight
v_products_date_available
v_products_date_added (Is there a specific date format to follow in EP4?)
v_products_quantity
v_products_quantity_order_units
v_products_quantity_order_min
v_products_quantity_mixed
v_products_qty_box_status
v_manufacturers_name
ptc_categories_index_path (You said ^ is used instaed of ~)
ptc_categories_destination_path
ptc_categories_linked_path
v_tax_class_title
v_products_status
EOREOR (If this is no longer required, what do we use instead?)

[scubasteve]

Thanks for these helpful info, mc12345678 and scubasteve.

A few more questions:
"You must upload the files prior to import and split them if necessary instead of streaming the import."
- Do you mean I have to upload the file and then click import? Where do I upload the file? Is there a limit on the number of products?

Yes, Easy Populate 4 is in the Tools Menu just as AEP similar interface for uploading files. No limit that I know of, I have over 14,000 items in one store. I can't load all those at once so anything I do updating all products I split into 4,000 items per file. I believe the default is 2,000. This is changed in the Configuration menu item for EP4.

"I'm having a small issue with the long text description field but that may be unique to my situation."
- I use long description regularly. What issues are you experiencing?

See my previous posts on page 112 and 113 of this thread. Hoping someone can figure out what the issue is, I'm stumped.

Can someone show me a sample files with all the necessary field titles? These are the fields I use in advanced easy populate. Are they totally different now?
v_products_id (How do I use products_id as the unique primary index in EP4?)
v_products_model (If products_id can be the primary index, can products_model field still be used?)
v_products_type (Do I still put "Product - General" in this?)
v_products_image
v_products_name_en
v_products_description_en
v_products_url_en
v_specials_price
v_specials_date_available
v_specials_expires_date
v_products_price
v_products_weight
v_products_date_available
v_products_date_added (Is there a specific date format to follow in EP4?)
v_products_quantity
v_products_quantity_order_units
v_products_quantity_order_min
v_products_quantity_mixed
v_products_qty_box_status
v_manufacturers_name
ptc_categories_index_path (You said ^ is used instaed of ~)
ptc_categories_destination_path
ptc_categories_linked_path
v_tax_class_title
v_products_status
EOREOR (If this is no longer required, what do we use instead?)

v_products_name_en now v_products_name_1
v_products_description_en now v_products_description_1
v_products_url_en now v_products_url_1
anything with an _en ending is now _1, metatags fields come to mind as other fields where this is an issue.

Date format hasn't changed. 9/14/2012 0:00

I don't believe you update these category fields below anymore for the product category I use v_categories_name_1 (format... Top Category^Sub Cat1^Sub Cat2). I used to load categories separately with sort orders, not sure if you can do this in EP4. I haven't tried to play around with updating sort orders on categories.

ptc_categories_index_path (You said ^ is used instaed of ~)
ptc_categories_destination_path
ptc_categories_linked_path

There is no replacement for EOREOR the field goes away under EP4, took me awhile to realize that.

You can do a complete download which will have all the field names as an example. EP4 can also be installed with AEP3.0.3 without conflicting then you can remove AEP3.0.3 before upgrading your site to 1.5.1.

[waterbender]

I don't believe you update these category fields below anymore for the product category I use v_categories_name_1 (format... Top Category^Sub Cat1^Sub Cat2). I used to load categories separately with sort orders, not sure if you can do this in EP4. I haven't tried to play around with updating sort orders on categories.

So does anyone know how to import using products_id instead of products_model?

My next questions are how to import product categories and attributes.

For product categories, the fields in advanced easy populate are shown below. What about the fields in EP4?
c_categories_index_path
c_categories_destination_path
c_categories_image
c_sort_order
c_categories_status
cd_categories_name_en
cd_categories_description_en

For attributes, the example file is confusing because it is quite different from that of advanced easy populate. Do we not use the id of option names and id of option values? Am I right that we still have to create the option name and option value before importing attributes using EP4?

Regarding your issue with product description getting truncated, it can also happen in advanced easy populate. This is usually caused by non-standard quote marks, apostrophe or any unusual symbols.