Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[Noneya99]

I tried to use the contact form on the mod hole website and I don't know if it has been replied to and maybe my junk folder ate it or it hasn't been replied to (i sent it a few days ago) anyways I'm trying to find out if anyone is using the advanced version? I just need to know if it has the ability to set the sort order of products? that is the main thing i need and if it does I will purchase the script from modhole but I hate to pay the price and then it not be there.

Thxs for listening and thxs in advance if anyone can help.

Noneya

[chadderuski]

I tried to use the contact form on the mod hole website and I don't know if it has been replied to and maybe my junk folder ate it or it hasn't been replied to (i sent it a few days ago) anyways I'm trying to find out if anyone is using the advanced version? I just need to know if it has the ability to set the sort order of products? that is the main thing i need and if it does I will purchase the script from modhole but I hate to pay the price and then it not be there.

Noneya,

You don't need the Advanced Version to set product sort order. Standard EP will do that, or you can install Quick Updates ( a very different product that lets you change a page's worth of products at once ) and set the sort order very easily with it. I use both products depending on what I need to do.

Hope that helps.

[Noneya99]

Chad,

Could you possibly tell me how I would do it in the Standard EP? I have used the EP on various sites for a few years and I never recall seeing that as an option though on all previous sites it was not an issue this site i'm using it on .. is... I have to have the products sorted in a certain way. I searched the forums for ep sort order but came up with hundreds of empty leads that were not related. if you could tell me how .. or point me to a thread that tells me so i can read up on it .. I would greatly appreciate it ..

Now you got me wondering .. what else does it do that I am not aware of and have been missing out on. Is there a page / forum / or anything that gives detailed info on what all CAN be done with the standard.. I've been all over mod hole the other day looking but maybe I wasn't looking in the right spot. Any help or info that anyone is willing to offer I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,
Noneya

[chadderuski]

Noneya,

When you do:

Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit (Attributes Not Included)

You don't get a field header called: v_products_sort_order ??

If not, then I must have added it myself... I did add qty_order_min and qty_order_units and documented that in my code, but I thought sort_order was already in there??

I still find Quick Updates better for sorting products. You can filter products by their sub category and easily see what their sort order is.

-Chadd.

[elkbow]

Noneya,

When you do:

Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit (Attributes Not Included)

You don't get a field header called: v_products_sort_order ??

If not, then I must have added it myself... I did add qty_order_min and qty_order_units and documented that in my code, but I thought sort_order was already in there??

I still find Quick Updates better for sorting products. You can filter products by their sub category and easily see what their sort order is.

-Chadd.

Chadd,
Are you saying there is a mod called "Quick Updates"?

Thanks
John

[Mike123acc]

Hi all

Easy Populate looks like a great idea.......but I am really confused.

It just doesn't seem to work, yet there are more than 100 pages in this thread. I guess some of you know how to make it work....

Sorry if this is old stuff, but the .txt files Easy Populate allows you to download don't then work on the upload. I'm talking about 'Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit (Attributes Not Included) ' in the Tools > Easy Populate.

I thought it would be really simple to create 2 products, download this file, then upload to test. It didn't work. No v_products_model was or category was included in the downloaded file, yet both these are required for upload.

If this tool doesn't work, fair enough, it's free, I'll just do it manually. But if that's the case, then over 100 pages in the thread would be weird........ :)

or am I just being stupid?

[solarflare]

I'm not going to call you stupid, but I will say the tool works as advertised, so something must be up with your setup. Perhaps a file was missed in the upload?

I just installed this on a 1.3.8 site and uploaded 16000 (yes sixteen thousand) products using EP. It effectively split the file and then walked me through installing all 52 split files it made. During testing I also added just a few dozen files as a test.

Sorry I can't help you troubleshoot. This is my first go round with EP so I haven't had to troubleshoot.

If this tool doesn't work, fair enough, it's free, I'll just do it manually. But if that's the case, then over 100 pages in the thread would be weird........ :)

or am I just being stupid?

[Mike123acc]

Ok.......

I think I've got it.

I added a unique model description and 'v_categories_name_1' to the .txt file (I'm using Excel and saving it as a .tab delimited .txt file)

Basically the file available for download is missing the above.

[chadderuski]

Chadd,
Are you saying there is a mod called "Quick Updates"?

Thanks
John

Hi John,

Yes, a different product than EP.

For EP you can add fields with out too much trouble. This is all I've done. Do YOU have sort order in the complete download... I suppose I could have added that myself.

I added quantity_min and quantity_units to EP and Quick Updates cause that is how this company sells stuff, and these weren't in the official releases.

-chaddro

[chadderuski]

Any help or info that anyone is willing to offer I'd greatly appreciate it.

Noneya,

Here is a post on adding sort order. I guess I did it without documenting it:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...der#post309463

Very easy to do! Just back you databases up first before any testing.

-chaddro