EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[DanMickle]

Easy Populate is working great for me, with the exception of 1 issue. I can not get it to update the metatags_keywords_1 field. I am able to use EP4 to toggle the status (0/1) on the other Metatag fields (v_metatags_products_name_status,v_metatags_title_status) fine. It just seems to be the field where I can enter longer text that is the issue (metatags_keywords_1, metatags_description_1).

We recently upgraded to 1.5.7d and made sure all themes and modules are updated. I am able to manually enter the information for each item, and it does show when I download the store from EP4.

Any thoughts on where to start?

Thanks in advance for any help/thoughts.

Dan

[mc12345678]

Easy Populate is working great for me, with the exception of 1 issue. I can not get it to update the metatags_keywords_1 field. I am able to use EP4 to toggle the status (0/1) on the other Metatag fields (v_metatags_products_name_status,v_metatags_title_status) fine. It just seems to be the field where I can enter longer text that is the issue (metatags_keywords_1, metatags_description_1).

We recently upgraded to 1.5.7d and made sure all themes and modules are updated. I am able to manually enter the information for each item, and it does show when I download the store from EP4.

Any thoughts on where to start?

Thanks in advance for any help/thoughts.

Dan

See if the content at or further referenced back in the following post resolves the issue and please post back: https://www.zen-cart.com/newreply.ph...eply&p=1381450

[DanMickle]

I went back through those threads and tried a few changes (language ID/Code, etc.) but they did not resolve the issue. I double-checked to make sure the "use products metadata" was enabled as well.

I did also verify because I thought I may have been mistaken when I first attempted a product update. I am able to update the following correctly (as well as the other standard fields):

v_metatags_products_name_status v_metatags_title_status v_metatags_model_status v_metatags_price_status v_metatags_title_tagline_status

however

v_metatags_title_1 v_metatags_keywords_1 v_metatags_description_1

will not update.

Maybe I am missing something in the past posts, so I am going back through them again. Thank you for taking the time and suggesting the post to start with.

[mc12345678]

I went back through those threads and tried a few changes (language ID/Code, etc.) but they did not resolve the issue. I double-checked to make sure the "use products metadata" was enabled as well.

I did also verify because I thought I may have been mistaken when I first attempted a product update. I am able to update the following correctly (as well as the other standard fields):

v_metatags_products_name_status v_metatags_title_status v_metatags_model_status v_metatags_price_status v_metatags_title_tagline_status

however

v_metatags_title_1 v_metatags_keywords_1 v_metatags_description_1

will not update.

Maybe I am missing something in the past posts, so I am going back through them again. Thank you for taking the time and suggesting the post to start with.

To ensure a full understanding, could you please identify the version of EP4 installed and then possibly the configuration settings (don't need to know anything about the path used for the upload/download folder)? Please be specific about identifying the version by its reported value.

Additionally, have you been successful with updating other records that are language based but not Metatag related?

[DanMickle]

To ensure a full understanding, could you please identify the version of EP4 installed and then possibly the configuration settings (don't need to know anything about the path used for the upload/download folder)? Please be specific about identifying the version by its reported value.

Additionally, have you been successful with updating other records that are language-based but not Metatag related?

I just tested with a record with two language-based (v_products_name_1) and (v_metatags_keywords_1) fields. The products_name_1 worked and the keywords_1 did not.

We are on versions:

• Easy Populate 4.0.37.13 - 05-03-2021
• Zen Cart 1.5.7d
• PHP 7.4.30 (Zend: 3.4.0)

I have attached screenshots.

[DanMickle]

To ensure a full understanding, could you please identify the version of EP4 installed and then possibly the configuration settings (don't need to know anything about the path used for the upload/download folder)? Please be specific about identifying the version by its reported value.

Additionally, have you been successful with updating other records that are language based but not Metatag related?

I just tested with a record using the v_products_name_1 and the v_metatags_keywords_1 fields. The v_products_name_1 updated correctly, and the v_metatags_keywords_1 did not update (field was blank to begin with).

We are currently on version:
Easy Populate 4.0.37.13 - 05-03-2021
Zen Cart 1.5.7d
PHP 7.4.30 (Zend: 3.4.0)

Screenshots of configs are attached.

[mc12345678]

I just tested with a record using the v_products_name_1 and the v_metatags_keywords_1 fields. The v_products_name_1 updated correctly, and the v_metatags_keywords_1 did not update (field was blank to begin with).

We are currently on version:
Easy Populate 4.0.37.13 - 05-03-2021
Zen Cart 1.5.7d
PHP 7.4.30 (Zend: 3.4.0)

Screenshots of configs are attached.

Found the issue. Looks like additional effort to support independent update of each Metatag field hadn't been applied. E.g. on the call to minimize the number of columns in an import file or to support update of just one column, this set of data had been overlooked.

In the current code at least the title must be present, but, if all three Metatag fields are not provided, then the missing field(s) will be made blank.

In the interim to that being modified, suggestion is to include the title, description and keywords in the import file. For those that use software to read the content of this forum, the second image above showed an image of the file headers and one example of the attempted content. The headers were: v_products_model, v_products_name_1, and v_metatags_keywords_1.

In the course of this discussion, there has not been a statement that all three were attempted within a single file, so I can only assume that such had not been attempted and that the above is the issue. I have not yet run tests specific to that version and issue with a file that has all three fields that update the database. My response is based on reviewing the code while away from a computer.

[DanMickle]

Found the issue. Looks like additional effort to support independent update of each Metatag field hadn't been applied. E.g. on the call to minimize the number of columns in an import file or to support update of just one column, this set of data had been overlooked.

In the current code at least the title must be present, but, if all three Metatag fields are not provided, then the missing field(s) will be made blank.

In the interim to that being modified, suggestion is to include the title, description and keywords in the import file. For those that use software to read the content of this forum, the second image above showed an image of the file headers and one example of the attempted content. The headers were: v_products_model, v_products_name_1, and v_metatags_keywords_1.

In the course of this discussion, there has not been a statement that all three were attempted within a single file, so I can only assume that such had not been attempted and that the above is the issue. I have not yet run tests specific to that version and issue with a file that has all three fields that update the database. My response is based on reviewing the code while away from a computer.

That worked like a charm! Thank you firstly for helping and secondly for having me dig deeper before just handing me the answer. The historical info I went over gave me a better picture of how the module (and ZC) works, and that will obviously help in the future. I appreciate all your time and help.