I'm working on creating a CSV file to import into my new Zencart shop. I'm importing a little over 1K products so I need to make sure I automate as much as possible to save time on error debugging.

  • I cannot find which version of EasyPopulate my web designer installed -- it is not on the Tools->Easy Populate page
    I have also read the wiki, dated 2007 and cannot find my answers there

    I'd like to know how important the time stamp is within the v_date_added field. I would like to retain my product by date order. My old ecommerce platform did not use a time stamp, only the date.
    e.g. 1/12/2012

    It looks like EasyPopulate wants something more akin to this:
    1/12/2012 15:48

    My question is can I leave off the time stamp? Will EasyPopulate be able to handle this? Or do I need to insert a time stamp into each entry.


  • Second question is about single and double quotes. I've read that EasyPopulate is not happy with quotes. I currently have quote-less titles but my descriptions do have quotes, both single and double as well as a smattering of other special characters like accented chars and various forms of punctuation like commas, semicolons, etc. Does the quote-less restriction apply to the v_products_description_1 field too? What about commas and other forms of punctuation? If there are issues, is there an escape character (like \ in regex) that will work? Otherwise any advice on this?

    I've got, as I've said, over 1K products and most of the descriptions are unique.


Thanks in advance.