Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[linuxguy2]

The only easy populate plugin I could get to work was EasyPopulate-4.0-master from the github repository.
However there are two strains of EasyPopulate-4.0-master on github that behave differently

And the only way I could I could get it to install was to install it before I installed the other plugin's like FEC.

There are various strains of Easy Populate:
easy_populate_csv_for_zencart_v1.5.x_v1.2.5.7c
Easy Populate with Group Price Per Item
EXCEL Populate..... And maybe others.
These I could not get to install properly.

IMHO They all need to be combined.

I've spent hours sorting through all the problems associated with this plugin(s).

[benxp]

How can I creat a CSV , Excel or TXT file only with product name,category, products price (Gross or Net), Products Quantity and Products Model ?

[marketingspartan]

This is my fourth store on ZC so I'm pretty well versed in the cart, but for the life of me I cannot figure this out. I need to add a red link going to another page for "restrictions" for certain product pages right after the description. I've tried everything I can think of to try to use Easy Populate. So I have the description in there - I just need to add "See Restrictions" in red with a link to another page on the site. This applies to about half of my products. Any help?

[denliv]

So I have the description in there - I just need to add "See Restrictions" in red with a link to another page on the site. This applies to about half of my products. Any help?

If you already have something like "Certain restrictions apply." in the description and just want to add "See Restrictions" (with the link) then the most "elegant" way would probably be to use a search & replace in the website control panel with mySQL. But the down & dirty way with Easy Populate would be to just do the search & replace on the description field. At that point you could upload your whole Easy Populate datebase & update everything, even the records that don't need updating, or you could fine tune things by eliminating the records that don't need updating, and just upload the required fields, which I believe are the model number, product name, and in your case the description field. Oh, and don't forget to BACKUP FIRST!!!

[marketingspartan]

Thanks, I've actually tried that. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is not taking the changes. I've made the changes in easy populate, uploaded, gotten the message the changes were accepted but the link is not there. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong in the syntax but don't know what it is. I'll try the MySql and see if it takes.

[ntel]

Hello
Currently I am using 1.5.1 version of Zen cart
Hosted on local windows PC and wamp installed for other server support.

The installation and other things seems to be working fine.
My main worry is transfer of products and listing to another server. I have installed Easy Populate.
I have updated the database and created many categories and listed products offline. In an attempt trying to transfer all listings to another fresh installation, I found that data is messed up. I identified that, the export data in csv file is not proper, means data is wrongly populated in exl sheet.
products listed to one category is getting shown in another.
Please help me for this serious concern. I dont want to waste my time trying another zen cart like platform.
Thanks in advance

[ntel]

Absolute bull! There's always the old-fashioned method of manually entering your products! OK, I accept there may be no way for YOU to use it - I'm only pointing this out for the benefit of the noob who might just see that comment and thinks that s/he needs EP to add a handful of products or they must abandon ZC.

Think about it - the only people who post here on the EP support thread are those for whom things HAVE gone wrong; the hundreds (thousands?) who have no problem with it don't keep posting to say "I have no problem"

So, the most recent version is available from http://www.zencartbuilder.com . This is the pro, paid for, and you get support from the author. However, unless there's been some major changes since I last looked, you MUST HAVE your complete category structure in place; EP does NOT create categories for you.

Dear Friend
I think there seems to be some problem while using easy populate plugin.
As u mentioned There's some old method to get backup of data and restore the listing, could you please help me with that old or manual method so that I can make my self sure of not loosing the product listing.

[w2e]

i bought ezpopulate in 2008. i have installed it a few times without a problem.
now i re-installed zen cart (1.5), and followed ezpopulate instructions, but it does not show up in admin->tools.

admin/includes/configure.php:
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN','/home/my-username/public_html/xxxx.com/admin_xx');
(i was not forced to rename admin folder before. this time around i did.)

can someone help?

[Calljj]

Hi Guys.. I am getting the following error in the debug log when I import. MySQL error 1054: Unknown column 'EASYPOPULATE_CONFIG_CUSTOM_FIELDS' in 'field list' When executing: INSERT INTO kyk_products SET How would I be able to fix this. Thanks.

in your admin folder.
edit easypopulate.php and find line 592 and comment out so it looks like below
//$custom_filelayout_sql.

[Calljj]

I've in admin easy populate config page blank, and when try to start create file, I've this message: An SQL error has occured. Please check your input data for tabs within fields and delete these. If this error continues, please forward your error log to the Easy Populate maintainer Error logs say: PHP Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in ..../easypopulate.php on line 852

see above, comment out line 582:
//$custom_filelayout_sql.