EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[FoodSourceDirect]

Just wanted to thank to Chad and MC for all they have done.

I second the motion i.e. DITTO

AJ

[Hasher]

Hi Guys

I am unable to import 3 columns from the Detailed Attributes file. Once I click on the import hyperlink the page it goes to a blank page with this url in the address bar
http://www.books.com/zencart/admin/e...led-EP2014.csv

These are the columns that wont import ,with some data.

v_products_attributes_filename /Books/Chapter1/HarryPottere.pdf
v_products_attributes_maxdays 7
v_products_attributes_maxcount 10

I use the same format as the exports from easypopulate, Full/Basic/Detailed

Is there an error log or something that can help me understand why its not importing

Thanks Paul

[mc12345678]

Hi Guys

I am unable to import 3 columns from the Detailed Attributes file. Once I click on the import hyperlink the page it goes to a blank page with this url in the address bar
http://www.books.com/zencart/admin/e...led-EP2014.csv

These are the columns that wont import ,with some data.

v_products_attributes_filename /Books/Chapter1/HarryPottere.pdf
v_products_attributes_maxdays 7
v_products_attributes_maxcount 10

I use the same format as the exports from easypopulate, Full/Basic/Detailed

Is there an error log or something that can help me understand why its not importing

Thanks Paul

So, EP4 does provide some error logging with the log file stored in the directory used for your import/export files; however, a blank screen error will typicallybe logged into the ZC error log file which for ZC versions <=1.5.0 is in the stores cache directory and versions >= 1.5.1 is in the logs folder.

Btw, ion a mobile device so I was redirected when I attempted to follow that link, but hopefully that is not a true/valid path to the software. If it is, the admin folder should be renamed. (Possible to have an admin folder named admin in earlier versions of ZC and the version being used was not identified.)

[mc12345678]

Hi Guys

I am unable to import 3 columns from the Detailed Attributes file. Once I click on the import hyperlink the page it goes to a blank page with this url in the address bar
http://www.books.com/zencart/admin/e...led-EP2014.csv

These are the columns that wont import ,with some data.

v_products_attributes_filename /Books/Chapter1/HarryPottere.pdf
v_products_attributes_maxdays 7
v_products_attributes_maxcount 10

I use the same format as the exports from easypopulate, Full/Basic/Detailed

Is there an error log or something that can help me understand why its not importing

Thanks Paul

So, EP4 does provide some error logging with the log file stored in the directory used for your import/export files; however, a blank screen error will typicallybe logged into the ZC error log file which for ZC versions <=1.5.0 is in the stores cache directory and versions >= 1.5.1 is in the logs folder.

Btw, I am on a mobile device so I was redirected when I attempted to follow that link, but hopefully that is not a true/valid path to the software. If it is, the admin folder should be renamed. (Possible to have an admin folder named admin in earlier versions of ZC and the version being used was not identified.)

Just attempted first an export from a database, no modifications made, and then an import of the same file that had a name of Attrib-Detailed-EP as a prefix. No white screen result.

Also then went in and modified one value in those three, uploaded, and the value was shown as changed.

Hopefully the issue with the "local" machine can be rectified.

[k1ra]

Perhaps I am missing something, but I just added products via Easy Populate 4 and assumed that the new lines in my product descriptions would be converted to <br /> once uploaded. This was not the case. Now I have to manually go into each product to re-format all my descriptions. Is this normal behaviour?

In Admin my settings for Smart Tags Replacement of Newlines and Advanced Smart Tags are both set to True.

[k1ra]

Perhaps I am missing something, but I just added products via Easy Populate 4 and assumed that the new lines in my product descriptions would be converted to <br /> once uploaded. This was not the case. Now I have to manually go into each product to re-format all my descriptions. Is this normal behaviour?

In Admin my settings for Smart Tags Replacement of Newlines and Advanced Smart Tags are both set to True.

Also, when adding <br /> tags in EP4, they do not stick when uploaded. However, <br / > tags that were generated when creating products via Admin, do export into EP4.

[mc12345678]

Perhaps I am missing something, but I just added products via Easy Populate 4 and assumed that the new lines in my product descriptions would be converted to <br /> once uploaded. This was not the case. Now I have to manually go into each product to re-format all my descriptions. Is this normal behaviour?

In Admin my settings for Smart Tags Replacement of Newlines and Advanced Smart Tags are both set to True.

Looking at the configuration options for those two options, it appears in the description that the code is disabled and therefore wouldn't do anything. That is assuming that the menu option description has been kept up-to-date.

In fact, I don't see that those settings are even used in the code, they are set, but nothing uses them.
What's the settings for curly quotes?

[athena]

Hi just installed on Linux in a new cart 1.5.3 and all seems well except i'm not seeing my test Category import.

I downloaded OpenOffice to open and edit the sample file I exported to add new categories and i do get a success notice that the file has uploaded successfully. I generated some numbers to fill in for the Category ID. But only the original categories are showing. I've not changed any of the defaults and used the comma and quotes as instructed. Anything I can tell you that may help you let me know what I'm missing? This is a straight forward install and no core changes were made.