Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[Cheepnis]

Not sure if this will work but it has for me.

Try Tools > Store manager >Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID and press RESET.

Please don't quote me on this, this is what I have tried and has worked for me but may not work for you. Back up if anything.

PERFECT!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[atemp]

Hi, I have just used excel populate to import into a fresh install. All went fine until I went in to amend the quantity. When I opened the product no details were in there apart from the price, product code and image location. Therefore I had to retype the description, title etc just to amned the stock quantity. What have I done wrong?

[helpme]

I have 7 products that are throwing an error, but I can't find the debug log. Where is it????

[double-happiness]

I have 7 products that are throwing an error, but I can't find the debug log. Where is it????

I think I can answer that - look in catalog/cache

[double-happiness]

In Zen Cart v1.3.9h / EP 1.2.5.4

Does anyone know why pretty much all my products have come up linked to 2 categories? They are only supposed to be linked to one, I'm having to manually remove 3700 x invalid category links.

[spid3r1987]

iv downloaded an EP file of all my products from EP
removed all special characters from the feed file and tried to upload it, but it wont upload the file, i click upload and then it "pretends" to proccess the file but then nothing happens..

[wizer]

Hi

I have a couple of questions regarding EP. Sorry if they have been covered in this thread, but 336 pages is difficult to consume.

Firstly when I try to edit a product that I previously entered via the full EP spread sheet, it adds another product instead of edit the one already in the catalogue. For example I changed one digit in the model number.


Also, I have added extra fields into the products of my catalogue. Is there a way to populate these via EP? I can't seem to find the definitive answer when searching.

[Serious]

The simplest way:
Go into your admin area and delete the product then load your Tab Delimited .TXT file that contains the revised product.

To add fields:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116061

[wizer]

Thanks I'll look at that thread.

So I can't edit with EP? If I want to edit 10,000 lines I have to do it manually through admin?

[Serious]

Yes you can edit, but EP see's your revised model number as a new product and add's it to your catalog as such. You could add the new model number as a new line on your .TXT file and then change the product status on the old product from 1 to 9. This will remove the old product from your catalog. IIRC, it will also remove the associated image file too.

It took me a long time to grasp the concept. EP doesn't know that your intent is, so to speak. All it can do is make changes based on very specific inctructions.

Lets say you have a product model number of 1234 and you want to change it to 123Z. Simply changing the number on the .TXT file won't work. EP see's this as a new item to be added. It has no way of knowing what you want to do.

It must be told that you want to delete a product model number and simply changing it on your .TXT doesn't do that.
So you must ;
A.) Tell it to Delete a Product Model Number
B.) Tell it to Insert a new Product Model Number.

This doesn't apply to changes you make in any of the remaining fields for a specific product. EP will make those changes since they will be associated with a known model number based on what is in the V_Products_Model field.

Make sense?