Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[milobloom]

When I Uploaded some new products.
I can see it if I search for the products such as:

Adult Bat Girl
http://nothingbutcostumes.com/index....ducts_id=14417

But the directory I put it in...
Either by clicking "New for 08" on top of the listing or
"New for 08" in the Categories Section...

I get a blank Screen....

Link didn't work... Trying again...
http://nothingbutcostumes.com/index....ducts_id=14417
Really banging my head on this one...

[ButterflyPressInk]

I am attaching the spreadsheet, and would be really grateful if someone could look at it and change the format quickly (I think i may just be saving it wrong).

Spreadsheet File: http://www.highhobbies.com/AllProducts.csv
CSV File: http://www.highhobbies.com/AllProducts.csv

Your link is not working - did you find your answer?

Does anyone know how to update category description with Easy Populate?

When I make a category with a description in the admin, and export it, Easy Populate doesn't have the description anywhere.

You are correct, EP does not export category descriptions; however, the paid-for version does - EPA. It costs $65 which considering the work involved in this program is certainly warranted!
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My suppliers provide the descriptions, i just want to be able to paste them into ep and upload without having to manually tweak the formatting. Is there any way of doing this. I have tried several ways but the descriptions all end up on 1 line. The supplied descriptions are in a text format on separate lines.

I ran into this as well - but many of my descriptions are almost dupes. I can't vouch for OO but in Excel, if you put your curser NOT in the cell; but in the Formula MENU line for that cell...it acts more like a text editor. I actually did my typing on a notepad and then pasted it to the Formula MENU cell. Once you get the hang of formatting html it's not that bad - it's exactly the same as you see right here in the Posting Editor!

Here are some things to try:
-paste all your client's descriptions to Word
-edit as you wish with bold etc.
-then File/Save to Web Page and
-View/HTML source to grab the code to paste into Excel as I showed above.

Good luck!

[oavs]

Why am I not able to see my uploaded my datafeed results.

I am using zen 1.3.8a with Easy Populate support for Version 1.2.5.4.
All installed and have NO errors etc . temp folder is cmod 700 and resides -
/xyzsitename/addondomainname/all the zen file and folders
/xyzsitename/addondomainname/temp /

I have been provided with datafeed from 'sensualmystique.com' as 'new datafeed 051308.xls' file format.

So far so good but what do I need to do to populate my shop. Shop is empty (I have deleted all the previous products and categories)

I have tried opening in Excel then saving as CSV text file then re upload under in admin under 'Upload EP File'

then what? I still can not see the products ..nothing has changed. what am I missing ?

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Thanks in advance

[Anguz]

It shouldn't be comma separated values, but tab separated, just making sure cause you said CSV, and the file extension txt.

After placing the file in the temp dir, go to easypopulate in the admin panel and paste the name of the file in the text field to get the file from the temp dir and click the import to db button.

Hope that helps.

[fakeDecoy]

Version 1.2.5.4 from 2005 is the last EP version, is that right? The Froogle feeder doesn't work - Google changed it to Google Products and changed almost all the required fields, and field names, a couple years ago. I modified some of the code last year, but it needs more work. Does anyone plan on working on it?

[Anguz]

oavs: I re-read your message and I seem to undertand that the txt file you got wasn't generated with EasyPopulate. If so, you should get one generated by it and then copy the data under the columns it has, that way you make sure you're working with the right format.

[oavs]

How do one get generate by Easy Populate?

As I said I have the new datafeed 051308.xls on my machine locally. What is next? It is tab separated text file saved from Excel.

I am also not interested in The Froogle feeder any any other feeders. I just want my datafeed to work on my own shopping site.

[oavs]

In my datafeed file that was sent to me from the supplier I have the following headings. What do I do with them? Do I need to change any one of them?

ITEM ID CATEGORIES TITLE FULL SIZE IMAGE01 FULL SIZE IMAGE02 FULL SIZE IMAGE03 THUMBNAIL IMAGE01 THUMBNAIL IMAGE02 THUMBNAIL IMAGE03 DETAILS META_KEYWORDS META_DESCRIPTION QUANTITY REMAINING WHOLESALE PRICE ON SALE PRICE WEIGHT SKU COLOR SIZE

[davewest]

In my datafeed file that was sent to me from the supplier I have the following headings. What do I do with them? Do I need to change any one of them?

EP is not that easy to use, but once you get the hang of it, it does make life easy.
With that... becuse your database is empty, exporting an EP file wont help you much. In the zip file you should have an temp directory. The dir has a txt file called Full-EP2005Aug31-0404.txt this is the basic dump file that EP uses. It has the full header.

v_products_model v_products_image v_products_name_1 v_products_description_1 v_products_url_1 v_products_price v_products_weight v_date_avail v_date_added v_products_quantity v_manufacturers_name v_categories_name_1 v_categories_name_2 v_categories_name_3 v_categories_name_4 v_categories_name_5 v_categories_name_6 v_categories_name_7 v_tax_class_title v_status EOREOR

EP will not make categories from the txt file. You need to make categories in Zen cart before you try to install you products. If you don't and you have categories in your txt file that are not in your cart... good luck finding your products.

EP uses the model number to create products in your cart...

Use EP headings and copy your vendor products under the ones that match.. once done, save as a Tab Delimited text file.. not a CSV file.

Remember... EP wont make categories, use v_status 1 = active, 0 = in-active, 9 = delete product, all lines need an ending word of EOREOR.

[Anguz]

davewest, I believe it does create the categories that you mention if they aren't the db already. I think I did a test that showed me that.

oavs, you can do a simple test with a single product first, with a new category, and see what happens.