Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[ladysaat]

sorry for not being available the last few weeks. A little 4.5kg boy is keeping me busy

Hmm I'm not too good at math but I think that's a lil tyke Congrats to you and your family!! (2.2 lbs is kg right ??) hehehe

[creative]

OK - I am running IIS on my local server. configure.php points to http://trenthaines.myphotos.cc. admin/configure.php was pointing to http://localhost.

Admin worked well on my local machine, but EP would not work at all, I was constantly getting logged out. ZC shop worked OK on my PC, but only when contacted from "outside" computers - (Basic background info).

To solve the Admin logout problem I edited admin/configure.php to point to http://trenthaines.myphotos.cc and EP works fine, but I can't access Admin from my local PC. This is a compromise for the moment, but I am curious to know why all other admin processes work, but not EP when my admin/configure.php points to http://localhosts.

anyone else confused yet??

Have you edited your hosts file to point 127.0.0.1 to trenthaines.myphotos.cc?
That should solve any problems you have.

[Danielle]

OK, I'm not sure what I'm doing here! I installed EP and it works great. I download the file, but then how do I open it into a column format? If I just doubleclick it, it opens in Word all messed up because it's a .txt file. If I specify I want it to open in OpenOffice, it still opens in the OpenOffice Writer. I cannot get it to open in the spreadsheet! What am I missing here? I know it's probably something so simple, but I can't figure it out!

TIA!

[Danielle]

OK, I finally found the answer to that in the old thread!

But in my column G, in every single row it says EOREOR, what does that mean? Also, this is a dumb question I know, but do I have to have a model number for this to work???

[petteriu]

EOREOR works as end of entry mark, telling EP to move to next item. It's needed there.
It's been a while since i last used EP (waiting for advanced version release -hint-hint-), but i remember v_products_model must be unique for each item. Otherwise existing item is updated (=overwritten).

Petteri

OK, I finally found the answer to that in the old thread!

But in my column G, in every single row it says EOREOR, what does that mean? Also, this is a dumb question I know, but do I have to have a model number for this to work???

[Danielle]

Oh OK, thanks!

One last dumb question, forgive me I figured out how to open it and all, but now when I save it, it's a .csv file. I cannot figure out how to get it back to a .txt file. I tried Save As and Export, but neither one worked. Can someone tell me how to do this please?

Thank you!

[Danielle]

Aw dang it...lol. OK, so I just typed .txt at the end of the filename when I saved it and that forced it to be saved as a text file. I uploaded it and the upload worked...except...now I have 2 of every product! Is that because the products didn't have model numbers, and I added model numbers and uploaded? How can I fix that? I'm thinking that if I just upload a blank file, that will delete everything, and then I can upload the file with all the model numbers? I'm going to try, fingers crossed!

[Danielle]

Umm yeah of course that won't work, sheesh. Getting late here

[langer]

Version 1.2.4 will only work if you use the model number as the reference. To delete products, use v_status = 9 for each product.

This is explained in the readme.txt and the install.txt, which are not particularly bloated. I recommend that you read these at least twice before you mangle your cart...

[Danielle]

I did read through that when I started, it just wasn't quite what I wanted to do at that point so I kind of skipped over the delete products part, sorry.

I didn't realize I'd have to delete all my products before uploading the new file with the model numbers. I downloaded the file, added in model numbers to all my products, then when I uploaded it, I had two of each product! So I guess I will have to delete all my products and then reupload the new file, have I got it right now?