Apsona ShopAdmin - a free tool for import/mass update/reporting

Brent:

Thanks for getting back to me. I've just resent the email.

Kind regards,

BrentHi,

Just checking you got my second email?

Kind regards,

Brent

Brent:

Hi,

Just checking you got my second email?

Kind regards,

Brent

Yes, I did. Haven't resolved the question yet, though. I'll get back to you as soon as I can about it.

Thanks.

Just installed this app and am THRILLED!!!!! It worked beautifully the first time and the install took all of 30 seconds via filezilla. Thanks for this great application. So MUCH BETTER than anything I have tried in the :clap:past.

apsona:

Yes, I did. Haven't resolved the question yet, though. I'll get back to you as soon as I can about it.

Thanks.No rush. I just wanted to check my email had got through. I've had no replies via the Admin Profiles thread either so I haven't found out if anyone has this working.

Regards,

Brent

Is there something wrong with the search facility in Apsona Shopadmin ?
Since a few days, whenever I try to search anything in Apsona, the search facility can't find anything and it slows the complete site down to a crawl.

fonzie:

Is there something wrong with the search facility in Apsona Shopadmin ?
Since a few days, whenever I try to search anything in Apsona, the search facility can't find anything and it slows the complete site down to a crawl.

To my knowledge, we have not made any changes to the searching or querying components for some time now. Can you describe a bit more? What searches types of are slow, products or categories or customers or what? And what search strings cause trouble? Please e-mail us some details and we'll gladly investigate.

Regards.

Hi,

when I do a search for a product, I type any word that I know is in a title of a product, it takes ages to find anything (there are some 4000 products in my shop), and while the search is in progress, I can hardly do anything in my (zen-cart)admin, it takes 20 or 30 seconds to load a page.

the search in Apsona used to be very quick, and strangely enough, I can't do a search in my usual admin for products I've uploaded through Apsona, I suppose I must do something wrong, maybe I should use some extra field.

Fons

Apsona,
I have just signed up and have installed your shopadmin. It loaded from my ZC admin right off without a hitch, however, when I click "Settings" I see no tables at all. I have allowed time for the tables to load but still nothing shows in that screen. Is there a config I should be doing to see the tables? Can the tables be edited from this screen? (I do have another shipping mod that I have to edit to add specific products that apply to this shipping mod) Is there a generic help file with the mod? Should I be checking your homepage for additional help?

Thanks!

Rod

Earnest-Enterprises:

Apsona,
I have just signed up and have installed your shopadmin. It loaded from my ZC admin right off without a hitch, however, when I click "Settings" I see no tables at all. I have allowed time for the tables to load but still nothing shows in that screen. Is there a config I should be doing to see the tables? Can the tables be edited from this screen? (I do have another shipping mod that I have to edit to add specific products that apply to this shipping mod) Is there a generic help file with the mod? Should I be checking your homepage for additional help?

Thanks!

Rod

Sorry about that bug - the empty table list was because of an error in the code we put out last night. It should now be fixed.

However, that screen is meant to be read-only, in the sense that you can't create tables or fields from it. You can only view their properties there. If you wish to have specific fields added to your ShopAdmin interface, please get in touch with us via our website, and we'll be glad to help.

There is no separate help file, other than the content in the support area of the website.

Regards.

Hi there,

Fantastic tool, just what I was looking for :) :) :)

However, im having difficulty uploading large CSV files..

I have over 87,000 products in a CSV of about 33mb... but when I go to upload into apsona it just times out and remains on working...

Also with many lines it wont let me try the copy and paste method either.

If i make the CSV file smaller then it uploads and inserts fine with no problems, same for copy and paste.
But we are looking to update our product list every 3 hours to represent more accurate stock levels at our stockist.

So splitting a 33mb csv into ten 3mb files will be very time consuming.

Is the problem with apsona? is there a maximum input limit?

Or is the problem purely just because firefox cant handle that kind of data?

Any help is greatly welcomed...

When I start Apsona ShopAddmin from the tools menu it presents the login box for my admin id in a new window.When I login it goes back to my admin page and I try it again but it keeps going to the login. Help

Apsona offers other services to generate income. I asked the same question when I started using them over a year ago.....don't question it - just use it - it is a great system! :-)

[email protected]:

i really like the mod it looks great the support sounds amazing but what apsona getting out of all this ? no one would design and support such a thing at such a high level for free, please inlight...... it all looks to good to be true

kelvyn:

These are exactly my thoughts. There's clearly a lot of work put into it. I can't find anything objectionable in the T&C, I can see a lot of happy users, and I can't find anyone anywhere suggesting there's anything scammy or dodgy about it.

So I'm just left wondering what's in it for Apsona? I'd just like to know that before I go installing code on the server.

jill8026:

Apsona offers other services to generate income. I asked the same question when I started using them over a year ago.....don't question it - just use it - it is a great system! :-)I agree.. It's like any other contributor of open source solutions.. It's the spirit of open source.. This is just like asking the Zen Cart admins what's in it for them.. (or the Drupal, WordPress or Joomla admins for that matter)

Apsona isn't the only stellar mod with outstanding support here.. We have a LOT of great Zen Cart contributors offering stellar modules and stellar support..

apsona:

Yes, I did. Haven't resolved the question yet, though. I'll get back to you as soon as I can about it.

Thanks.Hi Apsona,

Just a quick update to let you know that another user has reported the same problem over in the Admin Profiles thread.

Regards,

Brent

kelvyn:

Never let it be said that I don't give a little back on occassion!

The "official" Apsona vid is a little complicated for simple export, and I needed to show someone how to do a simple export template > edit and add > import.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raenojMRMCU&hd=1

It's 3 and a half minutes long, and of course, you need to apply it to your own products, but this is really a quick "basics" guide for when you need a template to work from. Any use to anyone?Awesome.. Gonna TOTALLY use this!!!!:clap:

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY off topic, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE your voice!!!:yes:

(did I mention I LOVE your voice!!:laugh:)

kelvyn:

Never let it be said that I don't give a little back on occassion!

The "official" Apsona vid is a little complicated for simple export, and I needed to show someone how to do a simple export template > edit and add > import.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raenojMRMCU&hd=1

It's 3 and a half minutes long, and of course, you need to apply it to your own products, but this is really a quick "basics" guide for when you need a template to work from. Any use to anyone?

Wow, this is superb! kelvyn - would you mind if we provide a link to this video from our website? Of course we'd include the link to this discussion thread as well, so that its attribution to you is clear.

Thanks again!

kelvyn:

:blush: Gosh! Well, thank you! I did a couple of CDs of brochures for blind people and stuff like that, but perhaps I should stop coding and start recording :) I never really thought about doing it properly though, because everyone thinks they have a great voice, but for all I know, I might actually sound like Kermit the frog or Bill Gates (if you can tell the difference) and people are being polite. But you're not the first to have said something similar :DOh TRUST me.. Not being polite at all.. It was VERY sincere.. My female clients will LOVE you.. :laugh::laugh:

Will definitely be stealing.. umm.. I meaning borrowing this video for training my clients..:smile:

Hi,

Does ShopAdmin only have knowledge of the standard fields in the Zencart database tables, e.g. for orders? I have added additional fields, but these don't show up as options when I try to create reports.

TIA.

kelvyn - We've embedded the video into our product imports support page, and added a link to your article in this thread. Thanks again for creating the video.

Javier - ShopAdmin currently auto-detects only fields in the products table. We haven't had anyone asking for support for orders fields yet. What fields do you want supported?

Thanks.

Thank you for your reply. I have added a field to the orders table to show a puchase order reference (po_number). There is no set format for it to be entered - it can even be a person's name. There may be others but I've just woken up and the brain needs coffee :-))

Regards,

Javier