EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[chadderuski]

How do I uninstall Easy Populate. I clicked on the un-install link. It gave me the following message. "Easy Populate Configuration Missing. Please install your configuration by clicking here
I do not know what it did - but it did not uninstall, reinstall, or change anything.

Thank you,
jund (John Underwood)

Hi John,

This is actually correct. It has un-installed the configuration variables from the database. Now you would need to remove all the files from your site using an FTP program. This is common with nearly all zencart plug-ins.

[Boggled]

Hi,

You should read the first post over again carefully. One of the main changed from 1.2.5.4 to 4.0 is the category handling.

Your top level category, and subcategories are now concatenated under v_categories_name_1 like this:

Skincare^Body Care

v_categories_name_2 would refer to the second installed LANGUAGE, not a sub-category as in 1.2.5.4. This allow people to actually populate a multi-lingual store and have the category names language appropriate.

Hope this helps!

Just to clarify, to use this mod to populate my website, I will have to edit the v_categories_name_1 and add the full subcategory path for each and every product?

[chadderuski]

Just to clarify, to use this mod to populate my website, I will have to edit the v_categories_name_1 and add the full subcategory path for each and every product?

Yes:

"Top Level^1st Sub Category^2nd Sub Category"

[darkmarauder]

Can anyone please tell me how to import products into a subcategory pls? Every time I use categories name 2 all I get is another root category.

[SPH]

Look at post #333 above yours.

sph
prommart com

[shopsfm]

easy populate 4.0
zen 1.5
mazdaproject.com
I Installed EP 4.0 on my site and was able to upload my spread sheet.
But I am having a problem downlading my product.

[chadderuski]

easy populate 4.0
zen 1.5
mazdaproject.com
I Installed EP 4.0 on my site and was able to upload my spread sheet.
But I am having a problem downlading my product.

Will need a bit more information ... after exporting a sheet, you will have a "Download" link. Depending on your browser/settings you may need to right-click the link and "save target" or "save link" to your local machine.

And then there is always ftp.

[darkmarauder]

Look at post #333 above yours.

sph
prommart com

I did as you said and did import the file using Category1^Category2 and it did import.
One question for people would be, does the name of a category have to be unique? The example being can there be a main category of the same name of category in a subcategory?

[chadderuski]

I did as you said and did import the file using Category1^Category2 and it did import.
One question for people would be, does the name of a category have to be unique? The example being can there be a main category of the same name of category in a subcategory?

Category names do not have to be unique outside of their tree structure:

"Intel^Processors"
"AMD^Processors"

You have to different TOP level category names with the same (but different) sub-category.

NOTE: Category names are case sensitive: processors <> Processors and will produce two entries in your category tree.

[chadderuski]

Announcement: Easy Populate 4.0.20 Beta Posted to Github

This new version adds many features and enhancements:

-Attributes are now "round-robin". You can import-export-import your attributes to add/update as needed.
File naming requirements: The basic import must begin with "Attrib-Basic-EP" and the detail with "Attrib-Detailed-EP".
I am still awaiting feedback on what common columns would be useful in the Basic import file. I do not want to duplicate the Detailed, but
I'm sure there are a number of fields that users would like here. Attributes import is now multilingual.

-Added 'products_priced_by_attribute' to FULL file to support attributes.
-Added Featured Products support
-Added Support for products type 2. You can now import all relevant info for music products (artist, record label, genre).
-Expanded handling of "curly quotes" characters and character 0x92

BUG FIX: When import a mixed file of updated and new products with only a select number of columns, the data from an updated product was being inserted into a new product.

Download here: https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0

Looking forward to your feedback,
-chadd