EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[linuxguy2]

There is an incompatibility between the two mods.

Tested both mods separately and they worked as advertised. Then tested on 2 different installations reversing the order of installing EP4 & export-shipping and EP4 fails on both installs.

My CSV file is solid as I have uploaded & installed it on a site without
"export_shipping_information_V1.3.2.1" installed and it works.

EP4 is a self installer and I don't know exactly which tables/rows/columns it modifies in the DB when you install it. If I had the raw *.sql file I might could figure something out.

[mc12345678]

There is an incompatibility between the two mods.

Tested both mods separately and they worked as advertised. Then tested on 2 different installations reversing the order of installing EP4 & export-shipping and EP4 fails on both installs.

My CSV file is solid as I have uploaded & installed it on a site without
"export_shipping_information_V1.3.2.1" installed and it works.

EP4 is a self installer and I don't know exactly which tables/rows/columns it modifies in the DB when you install it. If I had the raw *.sql file I might could figure something out.

My guess, and I'll take a look, is that export shipping installs a file that is loaded in after something associated with EP4 and therefore a variable needed by EP4 is overwritten feeding something incorrect to EP4. The fact that it sounds like the install occurs without error (review logs) and that the export continues to work that the autoinsall is not a problem, but there is a conflict in variable usage. Again, will take a look at this, though maybe a needle in a haystack dependingon what it is.

[mc12345678]

My guess, and I'll take a look, is that export shipping installs a file that is loaded in after something associated with EP4 and therefore a variable needed by EP4 is overwritten feeding something incorrect to EP4. The fact that it sounds like the install occurs without error (review logs) and that the export continues to work that the autoinstall is not a problem, but there is a conflict in variable usage. Again, will take a look at this, though maybe a needle in a haystack depending on what it is.

Okay, don't know what the issue is... Just installed the most recent version of export shipping information alongside of EP4, performed an export from EP4 using several of the export options, then turned around and imported them without issue... All items identified as being "updated", then modified the data for one of the entries, and confirmed that the piece of data was updated.

Something else must be interferring, in addition there was very little that export shipping does/has in it. Didn't really see anything that would load while EP4 was loaded, so don't see what interference there is between the two. Is this the situation under which you experienced no updates? (Export file which essentially puts the CSV on the server, then without touching the file, trying to import it.) In that situation, what results are presented?

[linuxguy2]

Thanks for the feedback,
Were you testing on a local test server or a hosted site?

This AM (on three completely different test installs) I'm getting some really strange behaviour when importing with EP4.
I'm going to go back and do a fresh ZC 1.5.1/EP4/SO install so I can document the exact steps to reproduce the failure.

[mc12345678]

Thanks for the feedback,
Were you testing on a local test server or a hosted site?

This AM (on three completely different test installs) I'm getting some really strange behaviour when importing with EP4.
I'm going to go back and do a fresh ZC 1.5.1/EP4/SO install so I can document the exact steps to reproduce the failure.

Don't have all of the specs available at the moment, but yes local server, nothing special about it's setup. Software is 1.5.1,but for some reason the database is reporting 1.5.0 and I haven't gone to update/repair that part anytime recently. There are some data differences that I occasionally have to entertain, like entering a 0 instead of allowing a NULL, but that to me is minor and I get errors if I don't do that, not just blind acceptance of information.

Shouldn't really get too much interaction between EP4 and SO, as SO primarily touches the orders table not the products/products description tables. But yes generally good to start with something frsh when troubleshootinf odd behaviours.

[linuxguy2]

When I started this round of testing 2 days ago I re-downloaded ZC1.5.1, export_shipping_information_V1.3.2.1 from the zc plugins area and EP4 master from your link on github.
This PM I tested on a completely different hosting service with the same failing results.

I remembered a while back I downloaded EP4 at github h t t p s://github.c o m/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0 which I downloaded a few minutes ago and overwrote the non working installation and BINGO!
It is now working.
SOOOO... I either got a corrupted download OR there is some subtle difference in the copy at h t t p s://github c o m/mc12345678/EasyPopulate-4.0/archive/master.zip

When I get a few I'm going to go back and compare the two sets of files.

Thanks,

[linuxguy2]

I found it!!!

In the file easypopulate_4_import.php the copy at h t t p s://github c o m/mc12345678/EasyPopulate-4.0/archive/master.zip has the "Detailed Attributes Import" code beginning around line 252 which doesn't work on my installs.

Maybe because I had no attributes setup?