Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[Anguz]

Not really. EP requires unique model names.

If you want to change the model name of an item, or change its category, you need to remove the existing one with a 9 in the status column and then create it again with the new model name or category.

[ben harry]

Is there any other downloads I could use to add product model numbers as I have thousands of products all without a model number. Ive just spent the last 30mins changing 6 products in admin to have a products number and did a test upload with EP and it worked fine, but its going to take weeks to add the model numbers in one by one. Thanks

[Anguz]

Well, if you have a code number or unique image filenames for every product, then you could copy any of those columns and paste it in the models one. Just make sure you don't change the column headers.

[Scrat]

MattS: Have you got a test site? not on your host.

Try using your test site,set up a store and load your EP file and see if it works on this(as it would be independant to your live site) if so you would know if it is a hosting issue or not, or whether it is a setup issue.

The thing that seems strange is that you are unable to upload just one product, which to me seem to be a hosting issue as the mysql query is very small, and makes no difference if you have one product or 30,000 products in the database.

One question you don't answer is what is the reaction of your host to your problem ?

[MattS]

Scrat,
I have everything installed on the web. I am not sure what you are talking about on a test site.

The response I get from the host is that they don't see a problem. I worked with them on the phone and gave them access to my ZC admin so they could recreate the failure. Well, just like any problem I have ever had, it always works fine on their computers. I have tried it on several computers and it always fails. BUT, even though they didn't get a failure, I don't think there was anything exported to my temp folder.

[Scrat]

MattS You should always have a test site as a working model just in case you need to alter anything or have it as a back up.

Test Site on your Localhost :

Bascially you set up your PC as a host/web server, very simple to do using apache and php, if you do not understand that use an old version of XAMPP version 1.4.16 which installs what you need. Then you can setup a ZC store on your PC and access it via your browser using an address like http://localhost.
Then you can see if you can upload the data using EP. From this if this works it would be a hosting issue.

I am not an expert in hosting but it seems to look as if it is a hosting issue if it works for the host but not for you,as it should either work or not whether a remote user or a server side user. Possible look at another hosting company, Look at the certified hosts on this site I use one and they are excellent without any issues. Ask them if they have any issues with large stores like yourself before you commit, if they specialize in ZC they should beable to answer your question.

[MattS]

So can I move everything from the web over to my computer, or do I need to start over. I am getting a bit lost.

[Scrat]

MattS : Start with a fresh install and just add the EP module to that install so you know everything is new and then add one product manually and then import your EP complete file from your present web based site.(you don't have to customize this, we are only testing the setup)
This would then show if you have any problems with the basic ZC setup.

Once you are happy with that then (as long as your live site is the same version as your localhost ) just copy your ZC web based files over to your PC and see if that works, if not than you have a setup issue in your ZC files, if it does work then it must be a hosting issue.

If you are stuggling with this I would buy the e-start book it will help you tons.

[ebaobao]

For all the people have used EZ populate advance, the latest version. Do you guys think I should buy it? I'm running v.1.3.8a and I need to import quite a few products, each item going into a lot of subcategories. Do you guys think it will help and is it easy to use?

[ebaobao]

I just made a purchase at zencartbuilder.com, but I don't have a file or anything to show me where to get my software?