Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[Tapper]

Hello All

I have inherited administration of some large (35,000+ products) webstores. A lot of the categories are a mess and others are crammed: 700 items in one cat, or "round" items in the "square" cat. I have been moving prods around and breaking up these huge cats in our zen cart and x-cart shops.

I have noticed that in zen cart when I change the category of a product in my text file and upload using EP, it leaves the prod in the old cat and also copies it to the new cat. I now have hundreds of products all over the place that are linked to their old locations.

It's my fault for not checking earlier: I just assumed that since it showed up in the new cat it was gone from the old.

So 3 questions:

Is there a way to kill these hundreds of linked prods without doing it one at a time? For instance, I know that everything in "square" that's linked has already been moved to "round", so "square shouldn't have any links at all.

Is there a way to swap prods between cats in my EP file, and stop zc from leaving the old one in it's old location?

And if I want to use EP to put the same product in 2 top-level cats, would I make 2 line items for it in the text file, one for each category?

TIA
--Tapper

[elkbow]

Yes, I have tried it with both a 1 and a 0. I am a graphics site, so I don't have physical inventory.

KittieMD
This is what I had to do:

Go to admin/Catalog/Product Types.

Under Product-General on the right select edit layout

Select the Value for the Title you want 1=On, 0=Off.

Your probably looking at "Show Quanity in Stock".

[KittieMD]

KittieMD
This is what I had to do:

Go to admin/Catalog/Product Types.

Under Product-General on the right select edit layout

Select the Value for the Title you want 1=On, 0=Off.

Your probably looking at "Show Quanity in Stock".

Thanks for replying! :)

I have it set to zero, but it still shows. Any other suggestions?

[elkbow]

Thanks for replying! :)

I have it set to zero, but it still shows. Any other suggestions?

KittieMD
I just looked at my tab.delimited file and had a problem with the date added kept going to 12-31-69.

So I deleted everything in that column and it worked. Try NOT putting anything in that EP Full file under the Quanity column. Neither a 1 or a zero. Nothing, and reload and refresh a product page.

[Teeb]

Well don't I feel silly.

Some extreme digging with chmod got it working. Something was messed up in permissions... I'm not even sure what, as I did some wholesale changes and then tweaked things back down for security. But that fixed it.

[KittieMD]

KittieMD
I just looked at my tab.delimited file and had a problem with the date added kept going to 12-31-69.

So I deleted everything in that column and it worked. Try NOT putting anything in that EP Full file under the Quanity column. Neither a 1 or a zero. Nothing, and reload and refresh a product page.

I just tried it and the quantity boxes still show.

Okay, so it's not a one, zero, or blank. Hmmm, the quantity boxes have to be generated from EP because on a manually added item, they don't appear. Does EPA address and fix this issue? If it fixes this problem, I would be willing to purchase it.

[karlh626]

Well don't I feel silly.

Some extreme digging with chmod got it working. Something was messed up in permissions... I'm not even sure what, as I did some wholesale changes and then tweaked things back down for security. But that fixed it.

I am having the same problem as Teeb.

I setup ZC version 1.3.8a

then I downloaded ep v. 1.2.5.4 and copied the included files to their respective locations.

Afterwards the admin pages show up as blank.

I tried making sure that the ownership of the new files was consistant with all of the other files but the results were no different (the admin pages are still blank.

[chadderuski]

Teeb, Karl:

I just did a quick fantastico install of 1.3.8a, then uploaded 1.2.5.4 from modhole and everything tests fine.

This begs the question: what other mods to you have installed?

Fresh 1.3.8a install, or upgraded? Fantastico install?

ARE YOU SURE you uploaded all the files to their correct folders?

What host are you using?

FTP programs aren't perfect. What FTP program are you using?

Did you set the /temp folder permissions to 777?

Did you enable HTTPS?

Check your admin/includes/configure.php file for anything "odd" ...

Oh, and with 1.3.8a I've seen some odd behavior when 'STORE_SESSIONS' and/or 'SQL_CACHE_METHOD' are set to file. Set them to "db" and "database" and see what happens.

Also begs the question: was your /cache folder permissions set to 777?

I have been using EP for a couple years now on multiple hosts/installs and multiple testing installs. I haven't seen this behavior before. At least not related to EP.

You may also want to check that you cleared your browser's cache, and reboot. Also try a different browser. Zencart has had some odd admin login issues.

That about taps me out ideas!

-chaddro

[karlh626]

chaddro


Thanks for your message. Since this is a new install I am playing with, I deleted the zen-cart install and database and started from scratch. After installing the zen-cart I noticed that my earlier download of Easy Populate was about 2k smaller in size.

Anyway when I uploaded and unzipped the ep zip file in the stores root directory, I noticed that once again I got a blank page when going to the admin page.

Next I went to my stores root dir and changed ownership so all the new files had the same owner as the other store files.

When I went back to the admin dir in my browser, it worked fine.

Thanks

[Gutable]

Hi everyboddy:

The problem I am having is that the data sheet from my distributor has 2 image fields one with the "directory path" and the second one with the "image name". In order to show the image in my site I need to combine the two fields as "directory path/image name". They also supply the image folder that matches the "directory path". The question is how I can combine the two fields to accomplish the results. This an example from the data fields.

Thank you

v_products_model    v_status    v_products_image    v_products_name_1            this is the directory path
HMV-VS-OD-XXL    ACTIVE    245-443373.jpg    Humvee Safari Vest Olive Drab XXL    apparel/men/jackets_coats/
HMV-VS-OD-3XL    ACTIVE    245-443374.jpg    Humvee Safari Vest Olive Drab 3XL    apparel/backpacks/