Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[langer]

Attributes are poorly supported by Easy Populate at this time. It is an area I will be attending to shortly.

Basically, Easy Populate is limited to managing: Option Name, Option Id, Option Value Name, Option Value Id, Attribute Value. That's it, which for most people may be enough. The gotcha is that it is so poorly implemented (legacy code) that it does an enormous amount of sql queries (= slow & server resource hungry) to produce a file that exceeds almost every spreadsheeting apps X x Y capabilities.

The attribute download file shows you the format required. Create some attributes in Zen Cart, and download the attributes file in Easy Populate to understand the relationship. Unfortunately, you cannot set the value display mode (drop down/checkbox/etc) using Easy Populate.

[Erica]

nice one .. thank you .. i am in the process of sorting that out .. but am having a bit of a problem uploading my stock at the moment (I really don't think i know enough to be doing this kinda thing )

I have tried a large database and it didnt work. so i have cut it down to 9 products. I created all the categories and subcategories myself after the large list didnt work, and then uploaded the list of 9 products. for some reason only the first product at the top of the list goes into my shop heeellllppp !! lol
Erica xx

[tj1]

nice one .. thank you .. i am in the process of sorting that out .. but am having a bit of a problem uploading my stock at the moment (I really don't think i know enough to be doing this kinda thing )

I have tried a large database and it didnt work. so i have cut it down to 9 products. I created all the categories and subcategories myself after the large list didnt work, and then uploaded the list of 9 products. for some reason only the first product at the top of the list goes into my shop heeellllppp !! lol
Erica xx

Are you adding 'EOREOR' at the end of every row? This is a common mistake.

[Erica]

Are you adding 'EOREOR' at the end of every row? This is a common mistake.

no, I left that column blank, am i supposed to be putting it in ?
Erica xx

[Erica]

no, I left that column blank, am i supposed to be putting it in ?
Erica xx

oooooooooo you little star .. i just went and put it in and its worked .. i have products !! .. thank you :)
Erica xx

[tj1]

Erica, yes, you're supposed to add "EOREOR" at the end of each row. Glad it solved your problem.



Langer, thanks. I've visited your website for easypopulate advanced, but couldn't find some info I needed, I've PM'd you.
The most important thing I want to know if how performance of Easy Populate Advance compares to Easy Populate Standard.

My host, which BTW, I believe your familiar with (s***5.com, won't mention full name here), has limited my use of Easy Populate. They always kill the process at about 2 minutes max. They said they can't allow such type of script to run for more than a few minutes because it consumes too much resources.

I'm really looking for an alternative right now.;(

[ericpeng]

Got problem after upload.
It seems it's caused by line feed(\n) has been replaced to <br /> aftre upload.

1. Firefox - copy
2. dreamweaver - paste
3. copy the code, copy to excel
4. save as tab delimited text file

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><img src="http://usa.asus.com/999/images/products/768/b.gif" border="0" height="23" width="16"></td>
<td>Quality K8 939 Solution with Leading Features All on 1 Board</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Anyway can avoid the problem.
Thanks

[Erica]

hello again
I decided to bite the bullet and upload just over 1700 products all together. it seems to upload them ok because when i go to admin home it says 1714 products but it did bring up this error message, does it mean anything ? or should i just ignore it ?
Warning: explode(): Empty delimiter. in /home/costumej/public_html/shop/admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/easypopulate_functions.php on line 241

thanks again
Erica xx

[DrByte]

it did bring up this error message, does it mean anything ? or should i just ignore it ?
Warning: explode(): Empty delimiter. in /home/costumej/public_html/shop/admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/easypopulate_functions.php on line 241

If you're seeing this error, then you likely didn't upload a date field ... in which case you can ignore it. Date fields aren't required, but this error appears if no date field is found.

[Erica]

If you're seeing this error, then you likely didn't upload a date field ... in which case you can ignore it. Date fields aren't required, but this error appears if no date field is found.

thats right, i didnt put in a date field .. thank you :)
Erica xx