EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[mc12345678]

I have just installed for v1.54. Am getting error: Easy Populate "Uploads Folder" missing!
Your uploads folder is missing. Your configuration indicates that your uploads folder is named mydemostore/temp/ Error Opening Upload Directory: mydemostore/temp/

I did go to configuration and modify upload folder, and set permissions to 755. It is located in my store folder, not admin. What else am I missing to correct this error?

As compared to the root of your store, your upload directory is whatever is in the configuration window for EP4 in the Uploads Directory added to the directory path DIR_FS_CATALOG as identified in the admin configure.php file.

So if the field reads mydemostore/temp/ then it is search for at DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'mydemostore/temp/'

[citapinc]

Is EasyPopulate and Easy Populate CSV the same product?

I downloaded Easy Populated CSV (easy_populate_csv_for_zencart_v1.5.x_v1.2.6.zip) and followed the installation instructions. When I go to Admin->Tools->Easy Populate I get a message box saying "Warning Easy Populate Configuration Missing. Please install your configuration by clicking here". But when you click on the HERE link it wants to execute "<domain>/estore/zenadmin/easypopulate.php?langer=installnew" and says an error occurred. If I go to Admin->Configuration there is nothing there for Easy Populate.

What am I missing?

[mc12345678]

Is EasyPopulate and Easy Populate CSV the same product?

I downloaded Easy Populated CSV (easy_populate_csv_for_zencart_v1.5.x_v1.2.6.zip) and followed the installation instructions. When I go to Admin->Tools->Easy Populate I get a message box saying "Warning Easy Populate Configuration Missing. Please install your configuration by clicking here". But when you click on the HERE link it wants to execute "<domain>/estore/zenadmin/easypopulate.php?langer=installnew" and says an error occurred. If I go to Admin->Configuration there is nothing there for Easy Populate.

What am I missing?

No they are not the same product, though both have a langer "heritage" in their history... They are two separate variants and Easy Populate CSV has its own support thread. This thread is for EP4, although both provide CSV files. If there are issues with Easy Populate CSV, the I suggest seeking out assistance on that forum. Otherwise, this version of EasyPopulate has been stable and functional. See the first post of the thread for the location to download the accepted version. Otherwise I have been providing advance copies of the version to be accepted as posted in this thread....

[sparrowce]

That was it, thank you! I was listing the store directory/temp folder, and the store directory was already in the path you mentioned in configure.php

[mc12345678]

That was it, thank you! I was listing the store directory/temp folder, and the store directory was already in the path you mentioned in configure.php

Glad that fixed/cleared it up...

Fyi, an upcoming version change is going to have an admin switch to identify if the temp files are in the store's directory or the admin directory and then from there the path is entered. The idea is that the admin directory would not be directly entered into the database (not currently there in a default install, why add it?) Also there are those that have found a legitimate use of it being in one side or the other as well as other locations on the server.

Hopefully won't be too (or more) confusing.

[sparrowce]

Update: export went fine, modified some product descriptions, uploaded the modified .csv file, got the message the file uploaded successfully - but when I checked the products I'd modified, none had changed. They still had their old description. Maybe I am not understanding how this works. This is the last part of my 1.54 demo test before going live with it and switching off 1.39h. In 1.39h, I used the old Easy Populate, and very often used this method to modify descriptions or prices. But it is not working for me, and maybe things have changed. I am really wanting a way to bulk modify the catalog like I did in 1.39h. Are my expectations wrong, or do I need to look deeper in the install part? Thank you.

[mc12345678]

Do you have linked product? Meaning does the same model# appear multiple times in your file? If so, the last version of the modified information is what will stay "visible". In other words first version was changed, but then the second was not and so on import the description was modified away from the original and then back to it...

[sparrowce]

Thanks . . . no linked products, and no duplicate model numbers that I am seeing. As a side question, I don't see that the product ID is part of the download. That seems to be a unique ID that would match records one for one. Just curious as to why this isn't used, and is there a way to add it to the download? I use the ID for my direct links to products on my ezpages and it would be helpful to have it in the export. I will do some more testing tomorrow. Appreciate the info about linked products and model numbers, that is good to know.

[mc12345678]

Please take a moment to read through the info in the download... It is just enough to explain the software, but not so much to take an eternity.

The software is expected to work as you have described that you would like it to do; however, from this end any further "guesses" will be just that... Either no one uses the software or no one has legitimately been unable to update/modify product descriptions and as a result moved on to something else...

The only hard and fast issue seen has been with working with a few specific languages: russian, I think japanese, can't remember which else, but if not mistaken some of those issues really come from Open Office and saving the languaged file(s)... Been a while since I last tried to figure out the cause of that...

[adb34]

OK silly question time:

I want to change the category that a lot of my products are in, so, if I use this plugin to download all my products, change the category of the products then upload. The question is will I duplicate the products in the different categories or will the category be over written by the new category?

Told you it is a silly question!