Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[lkzone]

Actually, easypopulate need the temp folder to be permissions 777

ya, I know this isn't very safe! but try that. if it works, then make a new cryptic temp directory hackers want easily find.

oh, most if not all files will be 644 (thought your custom zen pages are different), and normally the directories are 755, but the temp folder for ep needs to be 777.

-cj

Thanks again -- I sure was hoping my permissions on temp were 755 BUT it was already set at 777!! I'm going to start manually updating inventory (ugh!) but if anyone has anywhere else I can check please let me know. Thanks!
Lynne

[pzgoozi]

Guys i have installed the EP on the store that i have currently the Products on and went to Tools>Easy Populate and chose the Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit i downloaded the text file . i also installed EP on the new store that i want to import my products. i went to the same spot and i chose Upload EP File and browsed the txt file that i downloaded from my current shop and i pressed on insert to db. after couple seconds i got No model field in record. This line was not imported and in front of this error the name of the products. i can see the Category on the shop but i cant see any of the product or images, can anybody please help me get this working

Thank you so much

[swamyg1]

Guys i have installed the EP on the store that i have currently the Products on and went to Tools>Easy Populate and chose the Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit i downloaded the text file . i also installed EP on the new store that i want to import my products. i went to the same spot and i chose Upload EP File and browsed the txt file that i downloaded from my current shop and i pressed on insert to db. after couple seconds i got No model field in record. This line was not imported and in front of this error the name of the products. i can see the Category on the shop but i cant see any of the product or images, can anybody please help me get this working

Thank you so much

I had this same problem. If you're on a Mac make sure you are saving your file as a "Windows comma separated" CSV.

If you're not on a Mac I don't know if my post will help!

[lkzone]

Can I remove Easy Populate by simply deleting all the files that I previously installed? It's not working and I thought I'd just remove it -- did any other files get modified when I install this add-on?

thanks.
Lynne

[lkzone]

I've removed all the EP files but I still have a listing in my Admin/Configuration menu. I see that EP is still in the table called "Configuration_Group" in the database.

Does anyone know how it got added to this table and how to properly remove it?

I used EasyPopulate successfully last year every month and then it just stopped working. I have been unable to fix the problem and so am removing the add-on.

If anyone knows of another way to update inventory, I'd love to hear. Thanks!

[schoolboy]

Lynne, I am sorry to learn that you've been battling with EP, and that you have decided to remove it.

I think that the problem may be something to do with the formatting of the TXT file you are uploading to the server.

Have you tried doing an EP update just by using the "browse for file" option (ie: loading the file from the browser, instead of porting it first to the temp folder)?

Despite its fussy behaviour, EP remains the best way of uploading huge quantities of product data.

Perhaps you should re-consider your decision, re-install EP, and try using the "browse for file" option - using smaller volumes of product data at a time (200 - 300 products at a time).

I have successfully used EP this way on a list of products over 4000 deep - admittedly, the product descriptions were very short, but it all went through...

If you have a "test" shop, try this in the test environment first.

Forum member "phazei" has introduced a CSV version of EP (as opposed to TAB DELIMITED TXT). There is a support thread for his/her version, but note that you need PHP ver 5.2 on the server for the CSV version to work.

[superprg]

can someone tell me which db columns does categories_name_1 and categories_name_2 in easy populate reefer to
as i havent been able to figure out myself....
Thanks

[audradh]

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to make all my products "product is virtual" with easy populate. At the moment all my products are prompting the customer for a shipping address which I dont want.

Since the original answer to this post was in the negative, and I've spent all night figuring out how to make this happen, perhaps someone else will benefit from my searching...

Yes, this can be done by adding the additional field 'products_virtual' to the array in easypopulate.php
Since the field 'products_virtual' already exists in the products table of a stock zen cart install, the field will not need to be created as would be the case to add a custom product field.

I would post the full code, but it is too large to do so. There is a great post in this thread about how to add fields to EP here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...261#post643261

FWIW, I was working w/ EP1.2.5.4, but I imagine this would be the same for other versions.

Hope this saves someone else a night of searching,
Peace,
Audra

[audradh]

can someone tell me which db columns does categories_name_1 and categories_name_2 in easy populate reefer to
as i havent been able to figure out myself....
Thanks

Yes. An example product, a shirt that, in my product catalog resides in Women's->Tops->Casual

categories_name_1 refers to your top level category, in our example: Women's

categories_name_2 refers to your 2nd level category, in our example: Tops

categories_name_3 refers to your 3rd level category, in our example: Casual

and so on. If your categories do not go as deep as 7, just leave them blank (although there is a spot to define how deep you would like your categories to download in the EP dowloaded file in admin->Configuration-->Easy Populate.)

HTH,
Audra

[audradh]

No model field in record. This line was not imported and in front of this error the name of the products. i can see the Category on the shop but i cant see any of the product or images, can anybody please help me get this working

Thank you so much

Do all of your products have unique model #s? That is a required feature for using EP as model #s are the identifying information for each product.

Audra