Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[Scrat]

SPH - Your problem is that you have too many attributes for OO and Excel the download is fine its the programs you are trying to use to open the file.

You need to use CSVd and uniCSVd
These two programs you can open larger csv files with.

[SPH]

SPH - Your problem is that you have too many attributes for OO and Excel the download is fine its the programs you are trying to use to open the file.

You need to use CSVd and uniCSVd
These two programs you can open larger csv files with.

Thanks! We'll give them a look.

[james739]

james739 - Sorry I don't really understand what you are asking for ?

I see you have shoes sizes are you asking to show all the sizes available ? in the attributes upload file.
If so you need to put a '0' or '+1.00' etc in the attribute column you require for it show in the product.

What I mean is I want to set a "required" flag for all my attributes. How can I do this with EZ populate. I modified one of the items in my admin to reflect what i mean, here is the link. When you "add to chart" without selecting a size, the flag is activated telling the customer to select a size.

http://trendsdepot.com/index.php?mai...roducts_id=119

Please tell me if there is a fix for this, doing it one item at a time is too time consuming!

THanks again!

[milobloom]

Can easy Populate work somehow with the pricing by attributes mod???

[awev]

Hello Milo,

Can easy Populate work somehow with the pricing by attributes mod???

If it is a mod that you added then have a look at http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=879 and it should be of some help. Granted, it says MAP, yet it applies to any mod that you have added, and want EP to insert info for. A couple replies later another person did an article on attributes, as comes standard with Zen Cart and EP.

[tenashi]

Just setting up zencart, way over my head with php, only static html experience, cannot read most posts. So need very basic info.

Have downloaded Easy Populate. Where do I upload the files (i.e., relative to admin folder) so that Easy Populate will appear somewhere in the control panel? Does one upload the .txt files, too?

Step by step instructions aimed at a complete novice would NOT be unwelcome.

Thanks!

[peppyone]

I have been looking at Easy Populate as suggested. It looks pretty darn confusing to me. Some people are having problems. Perhaps they are trying to do some fancy stuff.

What happened to me is that I had an inventory management company upload and entire inventory of products to my web site.

One category called Miscellaneous has over 1,000 products. They need to be moved into a category where someone might actually discover them and buy them.

Many products do not have a picture. These I want to inactivate these until I can upload the photos. So for now, I want to move them into a category that will be disabled until I can get to it.

Will Easy Populate help me to see what the photo is, if there is one? I cannot always tell by model number or name what category it would best be in. Also it might be best to be in more than one category. Will it let me link it to other categories?

Will Easy populate help me with those chores? And is it really “Easy”?

[wtashby]

This thread has gotten so long, I appologise if my question has already been answered.

After uploading my products, the categories are all there, product images show up in the New Products box, but, when you click on a category, or even an image of a "New Product", I get the "Sorry, product not found" message. If I go to admin-catalog-categories/products, I see all of the cats there, showing how many active products there are supposed to be in each, but, go to the cat and there is nothing.

I've looked in my database via phpMySql, and see where everything is there as it should be, I'm just not able to get the products to show up in my catalog.

Am I missing a switch somewhere?

[awev]

I'll try to answer as best as I can, in the order I see them listed on my screen.

tenashi:
After downloading EP you un-zip it to a local drive and directory, in my case it is E:\temp on a windoze system, or /home/temp on an *nix system. When you uncompress it keep the file/directory structure. You will see a number of directories (folders), and they will contain files. For me /MY_STORE/whatever is /public_html/zencart/whatever. Using an FTP program just upload the files from the local directory to your Zen Cart directory with the same name. There is not much more to it. And no, you do not need to upload the text files, that is for you to read.

peppyone:
The more fancy you get, and the more customized you want EP, the more chances to encounter problems. My suggestions include setting up a database on your own computer, likeMySQ, and using it to help manage your products, and create the files for EP. After getting the database set up and loaded with the information you could use the following commands:

UPDATE table_name SET v_status = 0 WHERE v_products_image_1 = 'no_image.gif';
UPDATE table_name SET v_categories_1 = 'new_category_name' WHERE v_categories_1 = 'old_categories_name;

*-*-* OR *-*-*-

UPDATE table_name SET v_status = 0, v_categories_1 = 'new_category_name' WHERE v_products_image_1 = 'no_image.gif';

That is the general format based on MySQL, and you would replace the names with what you have chosen. Then expert just what you need so you don't use up more resources than you need to. Open in a spreadsheet, or use a special batch file, and insert the header info that EP needs. (Hint: open a comand prompt in windoze, and use copy file_1.ext + file_2.ext file_3.ext, or in *nix open a terminal and concat the two files into one - this would append the data file you exported to the EP header) In the Zen Cart admin area you would then delete the misc. category after you have things moved.

It may be easier to use the first update command, export the changed files, and instead of setting the status to 0 have it set to 9, so EP can delete the current mess. Delete the now empty category in Zen Cart. Then repeat the update command, this time with the status set to 0, add the new categories, and export, and upload with EP. Status of 0 is disabled, 1 is active, and 9 is delete.

The linking you have to do yourself.

wtashby:
Two things. First, while it is fine to test everything on a dedicated computer that you may have just lying around, most hosting companies restrict how much one user can do at a time on a shared host, so it may take a while for everything to show up from the customer side of things, or Zen Cart may be just slow crunching the info. Next, you may want to flush the cache of your browser and see if that helps any.

Well folks, I hope that helps some. Please let us know how everything goes.

[peppyone]

Awev, You have been very helpful and I appreicate your reply. I have followed your instructions for the install of EP and now have the issue of the Uploads directory not being found. I have the the permissions set correctly and I have configured EP to the best of my ability. I have read much on the zentcartbuilder.com forums and it seems this is a common problem.

When I installed zencart I did not install it in a directory i.e. mystore etc. I think this has made a difference when it comes to EP.

I am on a shared hosting server so I can't install "Uploads" to the root directory. So I am feeling very lost. I wanted to do so much this weekend but now all that time is lost while I get an answer to my support ticket.