Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[Noneya99]

I've searched google and this thread for any possible solutions to my problem but haven't found anything. Everything is working fine with Easy Populate except when it comes to the product description field. I noticed several symbols and characters such as the degree symbol, single quote, and trademark symbol were all replaced with ?'s for example: It's becomes It?s. Ive read something about using escape characters but am not sure how to implement that.

try using the html code for them here is a site that has a conversion chart

http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/

i noticed that also when i would use " they wouldn't show up so I'd have to use " .. if you have A LOT of products or suspect a lot of special characters I'd use a feature like "replace" in excel

[aeternal]

try using the html code for them here is a site that has a conversion chart

http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/

i noticed that also when i would use " they wouldn't show up so I'd have to use " .. if you have A LOT of products or suspect a lot of special characters I'd use a feature like "replace" in excel

Hey thanks a lot for the link. I think that using special characters is the way to go.. and doing a find and replace all in excel won't be too difficult! This really is a great mod. My distributor changes their prices every month (usually increases heh) and I was manually updating my prices to compensate for these increases. we're talking a lot of items. I actually made a spread sheet that auto adjusts for increases against my distributor's daily csv file so all I have to do is a copy and paste the values. If any one wants help creating a similar sheet just let me know!

[Joseph M]

I'm pretty new to using EP.
I had to create model numbers for all of my items, but I'm dealing with very few at the moment and was able to get a successful upload. However, all of the products are duplicated.
I wanted to replace the database, not add to it.

Can someone point me to a way to correct this? Thank you.

[Joseph M]

I solved the problem above by putting 9 in v_status for every item.
It deleted everything. Then I uploaded my original file of which I saved a copy.

Apparently it wipes out the image directory, so I'm going to have to gather those up and replace them.

But a bigger problem is that EP appears to treat copied/linked items as entirely separate products when uploading the file again. The result is that I'm getting 2 and 3 copies of each.
How can I prevent this from happening? Doesn't Easy Populate recognize items as merely being linked/copied?

[Joseph M]

Another thing I noticed is that all of my music product types appear to be general product types now. The artist field is completely gone when viewing the product entries in admin.
Does Easy Populate always lose the product type or have I missed something important here?

[edwardtilbury]

How do I specify a windows directory?

When I type in:

C:\wamp\www\uploads ,

it converts it to:

C:wampwwwuploads



Am I missing something?

[kelvyn]

How do I specify a windows directory?

When I type in:

C:\wamp\www\uploads ,

it converts it to:

C:wampwwwuploads



Am I missing something?

Put two backslashes
C:\\wamp\\www\\uploads

[Joseph M]

Another thing I noticed is that all of my music product types appear to be general product types now. The artist field is completely gone when viewing the product entries in admin.
Does Easy Populate always lose the product type or have I missed something important here?

I can't figure out how to get my items set back to music type products. Doing it manually means having to recreate about 225 items.
It also rules out being able to use EP for updates since it appears that it uploads all merchandise as general product type.
Very frustrating and disappointing.
Is there a way around this and to fix the damage I've done to my catalog?
Things were looking great before I used EP. Now I have duplicate entries, missing images, and altered product types.

[edwardtilbury]

has anyone gotten the upload directory to work on VISTA + WAMP?

I added write permissions to \temp\ for the vista IUSR account

Easy Populate now says,
Uploads Directory c:\temp\
(thanks for the double \\ tip)

But I still get this error


Easy Populate uploads folder not found

Your uploads folder is either missing, has incorrect permissions, or does not correspond with the Easy Populate configuration. Please confirm that the Easy Populate Configuration contains the correct location of an existing folder. If you have provided a folder and the configuration is correct, it is likely that you have a permissions issue with the uploads folder and need to request that your web host assign write permissions to the uploads folder. This is usually granted through Windows server user account IUSR_COMPUTERNAME. Easy Populate cannot operate until you have provided an uploads folder with read/write/execute permissions for the site owner.

[DrByte]

Is there a way ... to fix the damage I've done to my catalog?
Things were looking great before I used EP. Now I have duplicate entries, missing images, and altered product types.

Restoring your database, or part of it, from backup is likely your best choice.
Did you do a database-backup before you started importing changes to your data?
Did you happen to test the EP tools on a test copy of your site before touching your live site?
Remember ... all addons are use-at-your-own-risk. They are typically built for one person's unique needs, and then shared for public consumption as models for other approaches people may want to take for their own unique needs.