EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[chadderuski]

Progress Report: Attributes!

I finally had some free time and have been working on attribute importing again. So far, I have the Basic Attributes export/import working and have added Multiple-Language support so you can define your Options Names and Options Values for each language at import.

The Basic Attributes import sheet is for creating Options Names and Options Values and assigning them to a existing Product Model. Options Names and Options Values are created dynamically at import and assigned to the specified product.

I am now working on the Detailed Attributes import. This sheet will let you set all the specific micro details for attributes as assigned to a product. This sheet will be a restrictive 1-to-1 import that is used ONLY to update Attribute/Option Values details as assigned to a given product.

This shouldn't take too much longer ... hopefully I'll be able to complete things this week and get an update posted by the week-end. No Promises! But this is my goal, BUGS willing!

-chadd

[SPH]

Outstanding news, thanks!

sph

[chadderuski]

WANTED! Guinea Pigs for Attribute Testing.

I am looking for several zencart veterans that are avid Attribute users for some pre-release testing. You should be confident on how to install mods, have a backup of your site for testing purposes and also be using the MySQL Backup mod so you can easily backup/restore your store's databases. Multiple language users a plus.

Please DO NOT use on a LIVE site.

This is what I've accomplished to date:

Basic Attribute export: Single Line for each products_model. Will create
options_name and options_values_name dynamically and assign that set to
given products_model. Multi-language enabled!
This export is now 'round robin' ... meaning that the export file layout now matches the import file layout.

Once carefully tested, I will add select additional columns based on feedback from KNOWLEDGEABLE attribute users (of which BTW, I'm NOT one. LOL!).

Detailed Attribute export: This is the "whole shabang" ... giving you all
the info in the PRODUCTS_ATTRIBUTES table. This sheet has an entry for
each products_model + options_name + options_values_name. With this table
you can set all the specifics for each option. This sheet is ONE-TO-ONE and only used
to UPDATE existing PRODUCTS_ATTRIBUTES table entries, i.e. no deleting/adding options_names or options_values_names.

Current state is working. However, I don't have a great deal of error
trapping. I also don't have a functionality that will "replace" an
existing attribute set. This would need to be done within the admin, but
you can add to existing options/values.

This testing is not for noobies, so please be confident in your skills.

Leave me a PM if you qualify and want to do some pre-release testing.

Thanks,
chadd

[ecosmic]

Hey Chad,

I have tried several times to download the EasyPopulate 4.0 from https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0 but I cannot get it or download it.
Could you please advise?

Thanks in advance,
Kind regards
EC

[chadderuski]

Hey Chad,

I have tried several times to download the EasyPopulate 4.0 from https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0 but I cannot get it or download it.
Could you please advise?

Thanks in advance,
Kind regards
EC

It looks like github may be having some issues. I got a 503 Bad Gateway error myself when attempting to download the zip. Give it a little time. Perhaps github is having some server issues.

-chadd

[chadderuski]

It looks like github may be having some issues. I got a 503 Bad Gateway error myself when attempting to download the zip. Give it a little time. Perhaps github is having some server issues.

-chadd

Yep, it seems this happens from time to time...

[chadderuski]

Github is back online:

https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopul...zipball/master

[ecosmic]

Thanks a lot Chadd!! I'll install it today.

[shopsfm]

Progress Report: Attributes!

I finally had some free time and have been working on attribute importing again. So far, I have the Basic Attributes export/import working and have added Multiple-Language support so you can define your Options Names and Options Values for each language at import.

The Basic Attributes import sheet is for creating Options Names and Options Values and assigning them to a existing Product Model. Options Names and Options Values are created dynamically at import and assigned to the specified product.

I am now working on the Detailed Attributes import. This sheet will let you set all the specific micro details for attributes as assigned to a product. This sheet will be a restrictive 1-to-1 import that is used ONLY to update Attribute/Option Values details as assigned to a given product.

This shouldn't take too much longer ... hopefully I'll be able to complete things this week and get an update posted by the week-end. No Promises! But this is my goal, BUGS willing!

-chadd

Can't Wait!

[fewusa]

How do you add non-product table values - example Featured?:
v_featured_date_available
v_featured_expires_date
v_featured_date_added
v_featured_date_modified

Thank you.