EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[Carbonless]

To confirm, you have the primary key set as products_id and have it entered in the User defined products field?

here is my configuration
Title Value Action Uploads Directory EPtemp/
Uploads Directory Admin/Catalog true Info
Import/Export Primary Key products_id Info
Upload File Date Format m-d-y Info
Default Raw Time 09:00:00 Info
Upload/Download Prices Include Tax false Info
Verbose Feedback true Info
Show all EP4 Filetypes with Files true Info
Replace Blank Image false Info
Make Zero Qty Products Inactive false Info
Smart Tags Replacement of Newlines true Info
Advanced Smart Tags false Info
Debug Logging true Info
Maximum Quantity Discounts 3 Info
Split On Number of Records 2000 Info
Script Execution Time 60 Info
Convert Curly Quotes, etc. 0 Info
Convert Character 0x92 1 Info
Enable Products Meta Data 1 Info
Enable Products Music Data 0 Info
User Defined Products Fields products_id Info
Export URI with Prod and or Cat 0

[Carbonless]

I downloaded a new file. I edited one product title by 5 characters.
removed, other than header line, all other unedited lines, saved the file with one record in it, uploaded and imported
the result was the same
Import Results

Filename: Full-EP2016Apr27-184246.csv

Finished Processing Import File

Updated records: 0
New Imported records: 0
Errors Detected: 0
Warnings Detected: 0
Memory Usage: 4867608
Memory Peak: 5363688
Execution Time: 0 seconds.

[mc12345678]

To confirm, you have the primary key set as products_id and have it entered in the User defined products field?

here is my configuration
Title Value Action Uploads Directory EPtemp/
Uploads Directory Admin/Catalog true Info
Import/Export Primary Key products_id Info
Upload File Date Format m-d-y Info
Default Raw Time 09:00:00 Info
Upload/Download Prices Include Tax false Info
Verbose Feedback true Info
Show all EP4 Filetypes with Files true Info
Replace Blank Image false Info
Make Zero Qty Products Inactive false Info
Smart Tags Replacement of Newlines true Info
Advanced Smart Tags false Info
Debug Logging true Info
Maximum Quantity Discounts 3 Info
Split On Number of Records 2000 Info
Script Execution Time 60 Info
Convert Curly Quotes, etc. 0 Info
Convert Character 0x92 1 Info
Enable Products Meta Data 1 Info
Enable Products Music Data 0 Info
User Defined Products Fields products_id Info
Export URI with Prod and or Cat 0

Would say similar:

Uploads Directory secret_folder_with_no_end_slash
Uploads Directory Admin/Catalog true Info
Import/Export Primary Key products_id Info
Upload File Date Format m-d-y Info
Default Raw Time 09:00:00 Info
Upload/Download Prices Include Tax false Info
Verbose Feedback true Info
Show all EP4 Filetypes with Files true Info
Replace Blank Image false Info
Make Zero Qty Products Inactive false Info
Smart Tags Replacement of Newlines true Info
Advanced Smart Tags false Info
Debug Logging true Info
Maximum Quantity Discounts 3 Info
Split On Number of Records 2000 Info
Script Execution Time 60 Info
Convert Curly Quotes, etc. 0 Info
Convert Character 0x92 1 Info
Enable Products Meta Data 1 Info
Enable Products Music Data 0 Info
User Defined Products Fields products_id Info
Export URI with Prod and or Cat 0 Info

Believe there is still an open question. What is being used to edit the csv file/save it?

If you in fact open the file with a plain text editor does it look correct? (typically quotes around each set of text, that is then separated by a comma, with some form of carriage return at the end of each line.)

[Carbonless]

Thank you. I will test first thing in the morning.... Using OpenOffice as per suggested!
Thank you for your well used time.

[mc12345678]

FWIW, I also changed the stored folder name for files to include a / at the end of it, reperformed import with same/similar results as previously reported...

[mc12345678]

Found and fixed the issue(s) with updating while not using products_model as the primary key. Haven't uploaded the fix quite yet, but will be up soon. Want to also check some of the changes made to the featured products area to address some previously pointed out issues.

Not yet sure about the 0 products updated issue... please check for any log errors in the logs directory...

[Carbonless]

Great news. I eagerly await your upgrade. Thank you for the time and attention to my request and giving great support.

[mc12345678]

Great news. I eagerly await your upgrade. Thank you for the time and attention to my request and giving great support.

While I did notice a minor difference in the provided code and what was on my test site, I hope that it is the smoking gun for why import with product_id as the primary key was an issue. I also was trying to think back on why the problem existed here versus previous testing and development and it appears that in the spanse of local git work that the corrections may have existed on another branch or were incorporated specifically for the requestor and didn't make its way into a specific branch. :/ If nothing else, a reason to identify an issue when discovered rather than walking away. :) Thank you for identifying the issue and working with me to resolve. Of course proof to be seen.

I would have applied the changes to my 4.0.35 path, but I was going to apply it to the changes to improve the featured import. When I went to test the modifications to the featured import at least on ZC 1.5.5, I noticed that featured product control treats dates of 0001-01-01 as a date in 2036, so I need to look into that operation from the ZC side. But, once I get back to my computer I will apply the change of this discussion directly to the master for the branch and deal with the featured issues separately.

[Carbonless]

I have been with ZC since 2002 and appreciate the efforts of those that diligently support the community. I spent 2 hours reading the entire support thread yesterday before I even asked my question to find a solution. For those that have an established store with products that have been indexed by search engines and have back links, it would be devastating to simply replace the existing products. In my case it is imperative that the product id number stay the same to support backlinks.

Thank you for the great support and taking time from paid projects to bring a valuable service.

[henry3]

I updated to the version in the link, and still get the update notification:
Easy Populate 4.0.35.ZC - 04-29-2016 - NOTE: A NEW VERSION OF THIS PLUGIN IS AVAILABLE. [Details]