EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[Feznizzle]

About the split, I'll have to recreate for you.

But I just hit a massive roadblock. I've been at it for 12 hours, head throbbing, ready to smash my puter!

I just used EP4 to upload all meta titles, descriptions. Since I had flipped on all the meta statuses I wanted during my first product upload, all I was uploading was three columns of data (ID, Title, Description).

Nothing happened. I mean, meta title/description got inserted... but they didn't show up in page source. So I went to a product via my admin panel and tried to flip meta data on manually. I could see the meta stuff I wanted in Admin, but couldn't make them active.

I'll trouble shoot in the morning, when I can finally think again.

Is it possible I broke something during the initial upload by setting v_metatags_title_status to 1, but then leaving v_metatags_title_1 blank?

To test that possibility out, I'll revert back to before that first big upload. When I repeat the upload, next time it will have all the meta info with it.

But I think I may have actually broken something.... even before the EP4 insertion. The amin itself won't allow me to change meta settings.

Ug. Anyway, I sooooo done for the day. It's miller time. Better yet, it's Makers time!

[mc12345678]

So, Hmmm. Had a chance to reread what was provided above, look through the forum and read some code.

EP4 regarding metatags does still have one requirement which is to include the metatags_title (which you have done) in order to process in metatag information. The next thing for a ZC side, is that the applicable metatag information needs to have a status of 1 (true) in order for ZC to say, yes should display. In between those two is that EP4 needs to know whether it should try to process/export metatag information from the configuration menu.

Based on the provided process I'm thinking the individual status setting did not get set/establish for the records and so the data is present but not displayed?

[Feznizzle]

I think you're right.

I just used EP4 to upload, split, then import meta info again. This time I included all meta variable columns, set as I desired (0 for status I didn't want, 1 for status I wished to use).

Went smooth, no issues to report.

Thank you so much for all your help!

[cindygordon]

There are so many places to download, which is the place to download the most current version? Is it the one listed on the first post of this thread, that is dated April 2006 or is that just a beta?

[mc12345678]

There are so many places to download, which is the place to download the most current version? Is it the one listed on the first post of this thread, that is dated April 2006 or is that just a beta?

The location shown in the first post of this thread has generally been kept up with the official current release. However, that said, there is the version that was released to/through ZC available for download here. Updates, new features, etc. Are worked on/distributed through github here. The thing about that version is that the software version tends not to be updated until near submission to ZC so database changes made in it may not appear to need installing until later.

Further, that said, some new features and modifications are being incorporated as they are identified as successful for operation. There are a few branches each with some different features to be verified and incorporated. Perhaps the most innovative is the identification of the csv delimiter and the potential use of the discovery. It is still limited to a base set of delimiters, but at least easier to work with other than the base CSV (Comma Separated Values).

Anyways, hope that helps.

[linuxguy2]

The verion I like best is EasyPopulate 4.0
Google "EasyPopulate 4.0" and go to the "EasyPopulate V4 - Zen Cart® Plugins and Addons" link.

Or search "ep4" on the plugins page.

[mc12345678]

The verion I like best is EasyPopulate 4.0
Google "EasyPopulate 4.0" and go to the "EasyPopulate V4 - Zen Cart® Plugins and Addons" link.

Or search "ep4" on the plugins page.

Glad you like it and yes the search will reveal the links provided as well as some other related software. The links (or reference to the first post) are all related to the same software.

After my last posting, I confirmed that the location identified in the first post is the same version as distributed by ZC download.

Because of the observed popularity of the plugin and the reference provided in the first post, I had spoken with chadder about how to proceed with revisions. We decided to leave the known location identified as it was, to keep it up-to-date and to independently generate modifications to not disrupt either of those two.

[cindygordon]

The location shown in the first post of this thread has generally been kept up with the official current release. However, that said, there is the version that was released to/through ZC available for download here. Updates, new features, etc. Are worked on/distributed through github here. The thing about that version is that the software version tends not to be updated until near submission to ZC so database changes made in it may not appear to need installing until later.

Further, that said, some new features and modifications are being incorporated as they are identified as successful for operation. There are a few branches each with some different features to be verified and incorporated. Perhaps the most innovative is the identification of the csv delimiter and the potential use of the discovery. It is still limited to a base set of delimiters, but at least easier to work with other than the base CSV (Comma Separated Values).

Anyways, hope that helps.

Thanks for that info!