Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[pawelsad]

Hi i have a strange problem, my easypopulate txt file have something like it:

products a, manufacturer a
products b,
products c,
products d, manufacturer b

So in zencart i should have 4 products like that:

products a, manufacturer a
products b,
products c,
products d, manufacturer b

But i have

products a, manufacturer a
products b, manufacturer a
products c, manufacturer a
products d, manufacturer b

If someone know how to fix it please help.

Pawel

[chadderuski]

Hi i have a strange problem, my easypopulate txt file have something like it:

products a, manufacturer a
products b,
products c,
products d, manufacturer b

So in zencart i should have 4 products like that:

products a, manufacturer a
products b,
products c,
products d, manufacturer b

But i have

products a, manufacturer a
products b, manufacturer a
products c, manufacturer a
products d, manufacturer b

If someone know how to fix it please help.

Pawel

I also noticed this behavior, I think the easiest way to fix it is to make a manufacture for <blank> and to use that instead of leaving the manufacturer blank.

[chadderuski]

Alright! Getting rather frustrated with this product!

I was able to use EP to update pricing. That worked well. Cool.

HOWEVER: How on earth am I supposed to be able to update/change product descriptions when openoffice and excel export the file in a manner that EP will not load? Namely, they want to encapsulate everything in quotes or single-quotes. Which results in EP not uploading/updating anything.

If there some sort of "best practices" that we are supposed to follow? Is this product constrained to NOT allowing the use of ANY grammaticals in the text field?

Okay, first let me apologize for being a bit - ah - distraught the other day. It had been a long day and I was expecting to produce an upload file that looked like the export from EP.

I eventually took the export from excel and just tried it on a test installation and it seemed to work fine. It seems the extra quotes from excel are fine, but not from openoffice. I haven't tested this more at this point.

I have been waiting for the new update to the 3.0.3 advanced version as I need to have quantity price breaks.

I don't see Langer in here much, is he still doing any work on this product? Or only on the advanced version?

-cj

[kobra]

I don't see Langer in here much, is he still doing any work on this product? Or only on the advanced version?

I do not believe that the free version is being updated

[chadderuski]

I do not believe that the free version is being updated

Hey Scrat & Kobra!

I am using version 1.2.5.4. You guys seem pretty staunch supports in this forum. Is this version stable? Are there any known bugs? It would be nice to have an FAQ for this version, and known bugs & fixes. I see that ver 2.xx betas are NOT recommended for use.

I looked at Langer's license and he has not release the code to public, so updating or fixing the code for rede isn't allowed.

Langer, would you consider releasing the 1.2.5.4 code to public domain?

[cottage-rose]

Okay, I've read all 78 pages of this thread and don't see the answer to my problem.

I've been using an old osc loaded version with easy populate for several years. Because my osc version is so outdated and has lots of "issues" with the newer php etc., I decided to start a new site and wanted to use Zen cart if I didn't have to lose too much of what I had in the old loaded version.

One thing that is important is being able to move the inventory in. I have over 3000 items and don't want to put them in one by one. I have never had a problem with EP and osc loaded. I download, edit and upload or just upload new items as I go. I've never had it time out or not upload. The full inventory file is only 757kb and it only takes 2 seconds to download from osc loaded. I have tried everything to upload it to Zen and cannot get it to work. I've done the split file, no luck still times out. I even set up individual files on my computer with only 100 lines each, the first one loaded, the second one timed out. It uploads about 1200 items.

There are some things about my inventory that may be causing problems with Zen that work fine in OSC loaded.

....I use linked products, so I have some products that are listed 2-3 times with the same model number but different categories, but some of those have uploaded fine.
....I do have some symbols in my descriptions and items like #, ' and ", but of the products that do upload, many have those symbols in them.
....I have categories and subcategories three deep, but some of the products that do uploaded are in the second level subcategories.

The only thing that looks suspect to me, maybe because I don't know what it really is, is the 'master product ID'. On the items that are linked, this shows as 'invalid master ID', and a drop down box shows both items with unique numbers. On items that are only in one category, every item shows as master product category #0.

Both Zen and osc loaded are on the same server under the same website, one under cart and one under catalog. We did that so that it would be easier to switch to the new zen if/when we could get it set up.

We have a few things set in apache because of the new php not working with my older osc loaded:
a. register globals=on
b. safe_mode = off
2. curl with ssl support
3. GD

We have apache 1.3.37 (Unix), PHP 5.2.1

Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I just out of luck if I want to change to Zen without re-inputting my inventory? Or have I totally confused everyone?

[kobra]

1.2.5.4 is GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, and this is in the zip along with the files(code)

[kobra]

Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I just out of luck if I want to change to Zen without re-inputting my inventory? Or have I totally confused everyone?

Have you first imported/migrated your osc DB products into the Zen DB, procedure in the FAQ's or wiki...?(not with EP)

[chadderuski]

1.2.5.4 is GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, and this is in the zip along with the files(code)

yes, but this still prevents you from modifying the code and making it available as an update in, say, the zen downloads section.

If I understand the GNU properly, I can change the product all I want for personal use on MY site, but cannot repackage it for rede as an update, changed or new product.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not really up on GNU releases.

[cottage-rose]

Have you first imported/migrated your osc DB products into the Zen DB, procedure in the FAQ's or wiki...?(not with EP)

I guess the short answer is no. I'll have to try and get my son to look into doing that for me, it's over this old fogies head. I'm liable to break the existing site, I'm am quite good at that.