eBay Turbo Lister 2.0 Exporter Support Thread

[hobokengolf]

I can vouch that it definitely does work if you follow the instructions carefully. You DO need to load the csv file into excel, save it and EXIT excel - or you will not be able to import. I do not know why this is so; but it works so I haven't looked at what's going on. Obviously excel is translating some illegal characters.

I can import 600+ products. I am about to go live with my ebay store - just have to go through all my titles and cut them to 54 characters. Numinix; perhaps you can add to the readme file that while Zencart permits 64 characters in a title and Ebay permits 55, the exporter only exports 54 (not sure why this would be, but not a big deal for me to cut to 54).

[lankeeyankee]

I can vouch that it definitely does work if you follow the instructions carefully. You DO need to load the csv file into excel, save it and EXIT excel - or you will not be able to import. I do not know why this is so; but it works so I haven't looked at what's going on. Obviously excel is translating some illegal characters.

I can import 600+ products. I am about to go live with my ebay store - just have to go through all my titles and cut them to 54 characters. Numinix; perhaps you can add to the readme file that while Zencart permits 64 characters in a title and Ebay permits 55, the exporter only exports 54 (not sure why this would be, but not a big deal for me to cut to 54).

Perhaps some of my problems stem from using OpenOffice instead of Excel? The file will mostly import fine after opening and saving in OO and then removing the " that OO puts into every value, but there are certain fields that won't populate, most notably the price. No matter what I do I can't seem to get the price into Turbo Lister, so I have to manually edit each file in Turbo Lister which becomes time consuming when there are a lot of items, but it's still quicker than starting from scratch! So no complaints here, I just get frustrated when I know there is something that I am not doing right and not knowing enough to correct it.

Matt

[judah]

THe Readme doc says:


Installation:
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1. Run the install.sql;
2. Upload the included files maintaining the directory structure (no core overwrites);
3. CHMOD Feed folder to 755 or 777;


What is step 1?

I run it local and it opens in notepad.

If I run in from the browser the browser displays the text like it was in notepad.

[numinix]

It should be install the sql patch. Just copy and paste it into INSTALL SQL PATCHES found in the ADMIN. This must be the first mod you've installed that had SQL modifications/additions?

[lankeeyankee]

I've been in touch with ebay's Turbo Lister support, they sure are responsive and helpful with Turbo Lister questions/problems. I guess they figure if you're using TL you will be making them more $ in fees!

Anyway, I couldn't get the counter to show up when importing the .csv file from zen and had to manually configure it in each listing in TL. The customer support guy told me the number code for the counters has changed. They should now be:


-No Counter = 0

-Hidden = 7

-Retro-Computer Style = 6

-Basic = 5

I changed the values in the database and now they show up.

Matt

[numinix]

I checked the code and it shortens to 55 characters (full words only).

[taf]

hi shoudn't the lines

DELETE FROM configuration WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id;
DELETE FROM configuration_group WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id; 

Be changed to something like:

DELETE FROM configuration WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id AND configuration_group_id != 0;
DELETE FROM configuration_group WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id AND configuration_group_id != 0; 

in the SQL patch file. Same for google base mod as well...

[numinix]

Yes they have been updated for that and will be included in the next releases.

[taf]

Yes they have been updated for that and will be included in the next releases.

ok, that's great, thanks

[taf]

Hi,

Been having the problem of getting the file to import into turbo lister. I haven't got excel to open and save the file so no luck there. Tried using Open office scalc and i just got a different error after saving the file when i tried to import it. I then tired opening and saving the file with plain old WordPad.

This seemed to do the trick, open the file with WordPad then save it and it will import into turbo lister.

I then compared these two files and the only difference seemed to be the carriage return type. WinMerge states: These files use different carriage return types.

Just thought I'd let people know what I found.