Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[stevefriedman71]

it has to do w/EP. reason:
the store was working just fine. then, i had to exchange all products and used EP to create the products offline. uploaded the pix and EP file and the error was there.

[chadderuski]

it has to do w/EP. reason:
the store was working just fine. then, i had to exchange all products and used EP to create the products offline. uploaded the pix and EP file and the error was there.

Steve,

Do you know how to use phpMyAdmin? Did you use the Database backup tool to make a full backup before uploading your new data? Did you work on a test version of your website before doing so on your live site?

If you do a full export and PM me with a link, I'll look at your data. You are using 1.2.5.4? Not some other version? Some of the other versions have "issues" ...

One thing to note, the ADMIN search and STORE FRONT search are not the exact same. There are differences, but I am not the right person to numerate them.
It may simply be a parameter.

Does your categories tree in the Admin work correctly? You don't have duplicate item numbers? Do you have any linked products?

-cj

[chadderuski]

What version of Easy Populate should I use? I don't understand why it is so difficult getting this contribution to work for everyone.

There is a $65.00 version floating around. Maybe that is why nobody wants to fix the free one.

No, Langer's EP 3.0 Advanced version has no support. He has not been "seen" for several years.

Several people have tried to update EP with varying results, often without fully testing the code and producing more or different problems than are in 1.2.5.4. Also, most of these attempts have been patches without truly understanding the underlying code. Others have fixed one thing only to break another. So in the
end most people "revert" back to 1.2.5.4 because it works.

If you read the wiki posted by schoolboy, and followed his instruction, you shouldn't have any problems.

There are two versions on github that you may be interested in. Though the one by jrobeson is not compatible with 1.3.9 and he has taken a very divergent path of late toward zenmagik. But you are welcome to try my "alpha" code:

https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0

If you have any questions or problems, you'll have to pm me as I will not offer support on this forum until released and approved by the zencart team, and then only in it's own thread. I do not have a date to completion either as paid projects take precedent of free open-source ones. Hopefully I'll get some free time to finish and round out the attribute import, but I said that last year about this time!

-cj

[gal_op]

Hi,
Does anyone knows how to Set "Call for Price" using Easy Populate?

Thanks

[rebel tech]

I'm sorry. I'm unaware of this issues as related to EP. Perhaps searching main forum for "broken admin search" ...? I have not seen this behavior from EP.

I have the same problem.

I have Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID, etc, but I still can't find items that were added by EP.

The customers can see them but the Admin search doesn't see them.

I did notice that if I go to the product I am looking, do a copy->duplicate then the duplicate item appears in the Admin search.

This does seem to be a problem with EP.

Anyone know?

[schoolboy]

Hi,
Does anyone knows how to Set "Call for Price" using Easy Populate?

Thanks

As product_is_call is a field within the products table, it is possible to EDIT the easypopulate.php file to include this field in your Easy Populate activity.

Lankeeyankee explains how to ADD EXTRA PRODUCT FIELDS to the easypopulate.php file:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116061

[zombieskull2001]

Hi I am new to EP and have read almost everything I could get my hands on for EP. I for some reason can not get it to do anything at all. I do mean I can not get it to do anything. What am I doing wrong? I am running windows 7 with iis7 and php4. thanks.

[gymangel812]

I'm trying to install EP Free. I tried reading the install txt file several times. I used an auto-installer on my host to install zencart so I don't know the name of my admin directory. I assume its generic? I use www.mydomain.com/manage to get to the admin panel. What I did to install:
-uploaded temp folder to root directory (zencart is in root directory)
-uploaded easypopulate.php (located in install file > admin > easypopulate.php) to root directory
-uploaded all 4 files (box, functions, etc) in includes to the includes on my site

there is no easy populate under tools. what am i doing wrong?

[gymangel812]

I'm trying to install EP Free. I tried reading the install txt file several times. I used an auto-installer on my host to install zencart so I don't know the name of my admin directory. I assume its generic? I use www.mydomain.com/manage to get to the admin panel. What I did to install:
-uploaded temp folder to root directory (zencart is in root directory)
-uploaded easypopulate.php (located in install file > admin > easypopulate.php) to root directory
-uploaded all 4 files (box, functions, etc) in includes to the includes on my site

there is no easy populate under tools. what am i doing wrong?

ok i've went through each of the admin folders to ensure the .php files are in my site (ie: admin\includes\boxes\extra_boxes has easypopulate_tools_dhtml.php in it). temp folder is in public_html folder. what am i missing?

[schoolboy]

what am i doing wrong?

The answer is simple...

You are trying to manage your site in completely the wrong manner.

Learn how to use FTP and a proper plain text editor. Install a FTP program on your local machine. Use it for loading files.