EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

SPH:

We make extensive use of attributes, mostly Colors for our dresses. (Sizes we can usually just copy across a category from a dummy product.)

Do I have the latest? My zip is called chaddro-EasyPopulate-4.0-9773477

sph
https://www.prommart.com

Yes. This is the latest on github. I will try to get the new work posted this weekend.

-chadd

darthun:

Hi,

I'm using easypopulate 4.0 with zencart and it's working like a charm. But i have many many subcategories, and haven't found a way to use zencart to setup the image path for categories. Is this possible ? How ?

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to...

Do you mean Category Images? If you want to set category images (and category descriptions and metadata) you need to use the "Categories Only (with Metatags)"
download option.

NOTE: This is a one-to-one export-correct-import. It works off the category id NOT the name. You do not want to alter your category between export/import.

Keeping that in mind, it is very useful for setting all your category information.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

-chadd

chadderuski:

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to...

Do you mean Category Images? If you want to set category images (and category descriptions and metadata) you need to use the "Categories Only (with Metatags)"
download option.

NOTE: This is a one-to-one export-correct-import. It works off the category id NOT the name. You do not want to alter your category between export/import.

Keeping that in mind, it is very useful for setting all your category information.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

-chadd

yes, i'm trying to fix a category image using easypopulate, but i don't know how.
Do you recommend just exporting using easypopulate, and then look at the generated file, and then do the same to link a category image ?
else, i don't understand how.

Thanks chad, :) i just had to export category only and look at how it was done, and import it back. Wow !! this will save me alot of time.

Hello Chadd, just want to say thank you for your work on this version of EasyPopulate, it is so much better than any of the others I have installed, I`ve had to export, and re-import over 100k of products, and it works flawlesly on 4.0

Keep up the great work
Regards
Sam

sam_m:

Hello Chadd, just want to say thank you for your work on this version of EasyPopulate, it is so much better than any of the others I have installed, I`ve had to export, and re-import over 100k of products, and it works flawlesly on 4.0

Keep up the great work
Regards
Sam

That's great news Sam! I'm glad the improvements in performance are making a difference!

I am loading a shop with 4 languages. I am currently filling in the csv file.
My problem is I am using Russian and typing in Cyrillic, when I reopened my file the Cyrillic came up in ????????
Can I upload with a tab deliminated txt file or only a csv file??
Thank you,
Andi

andiHPI:

I am loading a shop with 4 languages. I am currently filling in the csv file.
My problem is I am using Russian and typing in Cyrillic, when I reopened my file the Cyrillic came up in ????????
Can I upload with a tab deliminated txt file or only a csv file??
Thank you,
Andi

Hi Andi!

Awesome, Russian!

Couple of questions: What version of zencart? 1.5 or 1.39? 1.5 is native UTF-8, but 1.39 is Latin1 and will not show your input correctly.

How are you saving your CSV? Are you using OpenOffice and specifying UTF-8?

If you send me a PM and include your sample data, I can check on a testing server with UTF-8.

Thanks!
Chadd

Thanks for all your hard work on this Chadd, it's very helpful to the community. Are there any plans to post this to the Add-ons section for easy finding?

jackie.taferner:

Thanks for all your hard work on this Chadd, it's very helpful to the community. Are there any plans to post this to the Add-ons section for easy finding?

Hi Jackie,

Yes. I will submit to the zencart team once I'm done with 'beta' ... which is very close. I have been too buried this past week to push to github the new attribute importing tools, but should this weekend life permitting.

I also had a request to add Featured Items to the import/export, which I'll work on after I push these latest changes.

-chadd

really excited about this mod...but i have a dumb question (among my many others thus far! i'm new to zen cart) where IS the temp folder that i'm supposed to rename? i cant find it. am i suppose to create it myself and then name it something clever? and where do i put it? the warning message says it resides here: /home/content/32/9206932/html/. but where is that at??? please help, i feel like such a dork.

thanks!
aloma
https://www.alomasantiques.com

sweetaloma:

really excited about this mod...but i have a dumb question (among my many others thus far! i'm new to zen cart) where IS the temp folder that i'm supposed to rename? i cant find it. am i suppose to create it myself and then name it something clever? and where do i put it? the warning message says it resides here: /home/content/32/9206932/html/. but where is that at??? please help, i feel like such a dork.

thanks!
aloma
https://www.alomasantiques.com

Hi Aloma,

The default "temp" folder is locate in your root directory, and is specified in the EP configuration as "temp/" (no quotes).
Yes, you are encourage to rename this to something obscure!. The root directory is the same location that you uploaded your site to.
You do have to manually create temp and upload it if it does not exist on your site.

Hope I explained that clearly.

thank you so much! i got it working now...whew <----> :blush:

chadderuski:

Yes. I will submit to the zencart team once I'm done with 'beta' ... which is very close.

That's fantastic, thanks Chadd!

Hi,

I just installed this on a site and am using it for export only at the moment. I notice in admin/Tools/Easy Populate 4, down the right hand side, there are a number of things listed. In particular there is this...

Custom Products Fields
Product Short Descriptions: FALSE
Product Unit of Measure: FALSE
Product UPC Code: FALSE
Google Product Category: FALSE
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price: FALSE

I would like to set the first of those, Product Short Descriptions, to TRUE. Where are the settings that affect these? I don't see anything under the Configuration/Easy Populate 4 menu.

I would also like to export the number in stock.

Thanks for working on this great mod.

Rob

rstevenson:

Hi,

I just installed this on a site and am using it for export only at the moment. I notice in admin/Tools/Easy Populate 4, down the right hand side, there are a number of things listed. In particular there is this...

Custom Products Fields
Product Short Descriptions: FALSE
Product Unit of Measure: FALSE
Product UPC Code: FALSE
Google Product Category: FALSE
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price: FALSE

I would like to set the first of those, Product Short Descriptions, to TRUE. Where are the settings that affect these? I don't see anything under the Configuration/Easy Populate 4 menu.

I would also like to export the number in stock.

Thanks for working on this great mod.

Rob

Hi Rob,

There are some mods that I have add support for. These are auto detected (the script check the database to see if the column exists). So to use these fields, you would need to install the mod.

Product Unit of Measure (UoM) is my own unpublished mod (may get around to it once done with EP) that lets you ad the UoM to the price: $12.95 ea

Product UPC can be added from Numinix's products fields (not all his are supported here at this time).

The Products short description is quite old. I don't know if it's been updated for 1.39 or 1.50.

-chadd

I see.

I didn't ask the client why they wanted this, but I'm guessing they don't need the entire description in the download. Is there a way that I can customize the script to just use the first 100 characters of the description or something like that?

Rob

It may be possible, but you risk them using this data for the import and truncating any existing descriptions.

As I said, they only want to use this for downloading. I'll take a look at the files and see what I can find.

Rob

chadderuski:

Hi Stan! How have ya been?

Yeah, Johnny has some awesome stuff in his code. Haven't been in touch for some time. I don't know what he thinks of 1.5. I think zenmagik will have to catchup before he considers supporting 1.5. When I complete attributes for EP4 I'll give him another poke to see if he interested in the code. We had different ideas on how to solve the issue. His were more along the lines of what langer does in his 3.03 version. I have a rant about that somewhere :) ....

You are correct. I do NOT have any nice stats to the attribute import yet. I added the stats so you could turn off "verbose" output for better performance, but since I'm still working hard on the import code so I haven't added stats yet. What "price" are you referring to?

Yes, for Attribute import to work you need to follow naming convention of the file.

I am going to be back on attributes very soon. I got sidetracked fixing the UTF8 multi-byte character handling for multi-lingual categories which I'm going to try to push to github tonight. Then it's back to giving myself monster headaches with attributes!

-chadd

hey chadd been awhile!

. actually did a native zenmagick version of EP .. but with most of the same code internally for products (for the moment).

I ended up writing importers for reviews, coupons and order status history. I also made it so you could map your own header file format to the internal names via a yaml file.

I never did finish it for export though since i've been busy with zm core dev.

I doubt i'll ever work on a zencart native version of EP again, but i'd still be interested in seeing your code.

(especially since the next version of the zenmagick admin mostly works as a dropin replacement for the zc admin without any file modifications)