EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[Hasher]

Hi chadderuski

Just wondering if it is possible to add products with a download link . Or should I say a directory and file name and type . Mostly I work with PDF downloads . Which header names of columns would I be looking for . Or is it restricted to those column names in the export file.

Thanks Paul

[chadderuski]

Hi chadderuski

Just wondering if it is possible to add products with a download link . Or should I say a directory and file name and type . Mostly I work with PDF downloads . Which header names of columns would I be looking for . Or is it restricted to those column names in the export file.

Thanks Paul

I think you have to use attributes to do this. I have never done a download product myself. Perhaps someone else can chime in on this?

-chadd

[2ndMouse]

Categories: I want to include some of my products in more than one category, usually done by linking a product I think. Can EP4 handle this ... if so how? (Many thanks for the mod, by the way, it's great to see this area being developed, it's certainly really important to us).

[Keezee]

Hey Chad,

Me again...

How would I format the v_products_image field to look for an external URL?

I seem to recall doing this in an earlier version. I'm currently using 4.0.22.

We have run into a problem on one of our servers and I need to temporarily point to a different domain to pull product images, of which we have over 50k!

[Design75]

Hey Chad,

Me again...

How would I format the v_products_image field to look for an external URL?

I seem to recall doing this in an earlier version. I'm currently using 4.0.22.

We have run into a problem on one of our servers and I need to temporarily point to a different domain to pull product images, of which we have over 50k!

I couldn't find the post, you telling why you need this , why don't you use the product url (v_products_url) ???

[Keezee]

I couldn't find the post, you telling why you need this , why don't you use the product url (v_products_url) ???

I only want to pull the image from the URL, not any other product data.
Basically, I have a different and totally unrelated server that I am storing images on and I would like my product images to be pulled from there. It's temporary and needs to look as normal as possible.

[wacamatic]

Hi,

Sort of a newbie question but I can't seem to extract the answer from this thread.

I am trying to add some new, user defined product fields. I add the fields from zcadmin>config>EP 4 as per the instructions and they now show up in tools>EP 4 as field name: False.

Thats as far as I've gotten. When I download the "Complete Products" there are no new columns for the new fields. Also, I do not see columns for the "Custom Product Fields" which are also indicated as False. So, I guess my question is, how do you change these fields' status from False to True.

Using EP4.0.22

[chadderuski]

Hi,

Sort of a newbie question but I can't seem to extract the answer from this thread.

I am trying to add some new, user defined product fields. I add the fields from zcadmin>config>EP 4 as per the instructions and they now show up in tools>EP 4 as field name: False.

Thats as far as I've gotten. When I download the "Complete Products" there are no new columns for the new fields. Also, I do not see columns for the "Custom Product Fields" which are also indicated as False. So, I guess my question is, how do you change these fields' status from False to True.

Using EP4.0.22

You are very close. You will also need to use phpMyAdmin from your websites control panel and add those fields to the products database. There are a number of threads on how to do this.

The reason you get "false" is because you haven't added the fields to the database yet.

-chadd

[chadderuski]

I only want to pull the image from the URL, not any other product data.
Basically, I have a different and totally unrelated server that I am storing images on and I would like my product images to be pulled from there. It's temporary and needs to look as normal as possible.

Hey Keezee!

Just changing your image location won't solve your problem as zencart assumes a local images folder.

check out this old thread:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...offsite-images

and here is a mod for external product images:

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1077

Hope that helps. I've never done this myself.

[chadderuski]

Categories: I want to include some of my products in more than one category, usually done by linking a product I think. Can EP4 handle this ... if so how? (Many thanks for the mod, by the way, it's great to see this area being developed, it's certainly really important to us).

Yes, you can do this...

What you would do is DUPLICATE the products spreadsheet entry, but only change the category.

Be sure to BACKUP YOUR DATABASE. And run a test with a single product. Test to see if you can have more than one link (you should be able to link as many times as you need, I just haven't tested this in recent memory).

-chadd