Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[hawk11220]

This has probably been answered, but search doesn't bring it up.

I have installed EP, and works great.

I have just installed product/profit margin calculator report contribution. Installed and works great.

When I get a complete .csv from EP it adds a single field "easypoplate custom field". I understand why.

My question is what file/files do I need to modify to add a field for Cost (products_cost) and Mark up (products_markup)?

Thanks,
Hawk

[kenwvs]

I want to set up all products to include the digital download automatically. The download is the same number as the model number. Is there someway to do this in a bulk setting, and not having to do them one at a time? I am not sure if Easy Populate or some other modification will do the trick.

Can you add new criteria to EP or only the fields that are currently in the default listing.

Ken

[libertyguy]

This has probably been answered, but search doesn't bring it up.

I have installed EP, and works great.

I have just installed product/profit margin calculator report contribution. Installed and works great.

When I get a complete .csv from EP it adds a single field "easypoplate custom field". I understand why.

My question is what file/files do I need to modify to add a field for Cost (products_cost) and Mark up (products_markup)?

Thanks,
Hawk

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...72&postcount=1

[harleyx]

One problem and one question..

Installed the free version of Easy Populate off the zen-cart free addons page. I have the latest version of zen-cart freshly installed few days ago. Everything seems to be working except..

Problem)

When I create/download EP tab-delimited files to export into spreadsheet, it is only listing the one category I have a test product in. I have a couple dozen categories setup with some sub-categories, all empty.

I am trying to get a full download of the categories, so I can structure all my categories/sub-categories in excel.

How do I get it to export all the categories, including all the empty ones?

Question)

How do I duplicate an entire structure (category, sub-categories, and all products contained within) into another structure that is identical, but where the products and categories are uniquely identified (IE: not linked, but separate entries).

Thank you in advance for the help. I have not been able to find documentation on these two issues yet.

[popeye]

Dear All,
i'am new in this forum and i really need your help. well i just instaled ZC 1.3.9. an EP 1.2.5.4 and can't use correctly EP because when I click to Upload EP File, Split EP File, Import from Temp Dir (temp/), Download EP and Froogle Files, Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit (Attributes Not Included)
Download Model/Price/Qty tab-delimited .txt file to edit
Download Model/Category tab-delimited .txt file to edit
Download Froogle tab-delimited .txt file
Download Model/Attributes tab-delimited .txt file

.....etc, expulse me of shop and I need to loggin another time.

can you help me!!!!

[Scrat]

popeyeTry a different browser. Yes its a pain in the ***

harleyx 1.Basically EP will only download the product list not categories as EP is designed to be a 'product' editor/import tool, not a category editor.
2. EP works by a unique product key ie 'v_products_model', EP will populate a category if you enter that category with a product. If you do not want 'linked' products just enter the same product detail with a different 'v_products_model' key.

kenwvs Search this thread for adding fields to EP

[outeredge2]

Dear All,
i'am new in this forum and i really need your help. well i just instaled ZC 1.3.9. an EP 1.2.5.4 and can't use correctly EP because when I click to Upload EP File, Split EP File, Import from Temp Dir (temp/), Download EP and Froogle Files, Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit (Attributes Not Included)
Download Model/Price/Qty tab-delimited .txt file to edit
Download Model/Category tab-delimited .txt file to edit
Download Froogle tab-delimited .txt file
Download Model/Attributes tab-delimited .txt file

.....etc, expulse me of shop and I need to loggin another time.

can you help me!!!!

I always use Modzilla for all my site work. It seems to work flawless.

Anything I recoomend is using and following the Wiki about how to use EP. I have it book marked.
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

Another tip is to only have a couple of windows open when you doing the work. the less multi-tasking work your computer has to the better.

hope that helps.

[Cheepnis]

I searched the forum but couldn't find this issue addressed. I apologize in advance if my Boolean skills have failed.

I am using Zen Cart v1.3.9h and Easy Populate v1.2.5.4 in both cases, right out of the box with no modifications beyond a custom template.

First let me tell you how I proceeded (in case you're interested in the "bugs" I encountered) and then I'll get to the real reason I'm posting.

Everything was working fine in the store, including manual category creation and product entry and a five product, 3 category test run of EP yielded perfect results. YAY!

OK, so despite warnings against it, I tried to EP a 6500 product file which was on the server in the /temp directory - without splitting the file. My browser window went blank and sat that way until I hit the back button 15 mins later. Nothing was populated. No errors, just the blank screen (Firefox 3.6.13 on Windoze Vista). Yes, I knew it was a foolish attempt, but I figured I'd start with the lazy method first and then move on.

Next, I told it to auto-split the file at the default 300 products each. I got 22 files after another session of "white-sceen" (the browser is just blank. no "waiting for..." no "busy" icon, just "done" as if it meant to load a blank. ANYWAY, it split the file just fine and I then proceeded to manually populate the store using each of the 22 files. It went perfectly and I was quite pleased with the result. At first...

The source file (a tab-delimited file generated from Excel) was huge: 6500 unique products. I massaged it myself from a less than perfect source, but I was confident that despite some inevitable clean-up within the store, the data fit the requirements and limitations as set forth by EP instructions and Wiki and everywhere else I looked. However, when I looked at the total products actually populated, the store only reported 6000! 500 fewer than it should have been. EP gave no error messages, there was nothing obviously wrong anywhere so I was at a loss.

I made a download of the store's inventory using EP and compared it to the original file to see what I might find out about the products that were not populated. I expected a clerical error, but couldn't find a single thing wrong with any of them. Nothing! I tried a small sample file with just the "broken" prods and a couple good ones and they still wouldn't load, while the good ones did. I noticed then that the categories for these "bad" prods were also not created. Was that the trouble? I tried manually creating those categories and it went flawlessly... except for one detail: their names were truncated.

What seems to have happened is that when EP gets a category that has a name longer than 32 chars, it skips the category and product and moves on. That would be all well and good, since I should (?) have known to keep the category names 32 chars or less, but there was no error message from EP. Nothing. I could see if EP truncated the name automatically and then it would be up to me to clean it up, OR give me an error message (and even create a "fail-file" where it dumps all prods not able to be populated), but to just ignore them and move on was kind of lousy.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE that fact that EP was created (THANK YOU!) and perhaps the latest-and-greatest version will address this, but PLEASE OH PLEASE at the very least include a comment in the wiki or other instruction manual that category names MUST be 32 chars or less. I didn't have to work too hard to figure it out, but I could see a lot of people getting really frustrated by this - something that could be avoided quite easliy.

Thanks for listening and thanks again for a great contribution!

[retched]

What seems to have happened is that when EP gets a category that has a name longer than 32 chars, it skips the category and product and moves on. That would be all well and good, since I should (?) have known to keep the category names 32 chars or less, but there was no error message from EP. Nothing. I could see if EP truncated the name automatically and then it would be up to me to clean it up, OR give me an error message (and even create a "fail-file" where it dumps all prods not able to be populated), but to just ignore them and move on was kind of lousy.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE that fact that EP was created (THANK YOU!) and perhaps the latest-and-greatest version will address this, but PLEASE OH PLEASE at the very least include a comment in the wiki or other instruction manual that category names MUST be 32 chars or less. I didn't have to work too hard to figure it out, but I could see a lot of people getting really frustrated by this - something that could be avoided quite easliy.

Thanks for listening and thanks again for a great contribution!

Actually, mine is set to 64 characters. You have to edit your MySQL table to increase your character limit for the categories description table. Once you do that, you're set. But be careful when you're messing with phpmyadmin.

[Cheepnis]

Actually, mine is set to 64 characters. You have to edit your MySQL table to increase your character limit for the categories description table. Once you do that, you're set. But be careful when you're messing with phpmyadmin.

Yes, I could have adjusted it first (thanks for the tip!) but like me, most people are probably going to go with defaults and without any mention of this issue right up front, it could get frustrating for a lot of people, real fast!