EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

how do you add price per word or price per letter into the excel spreadsheet to be used with easy populate? i could add the prices and weight but cant for all others..

Can anyone recommend a stock_by_attribute plugin that works with EP4?

chadderuski:

Hi Diva!

Well, the custom products fields only work with the products table. If the is a special table for stock by attributes, I'd need the details on that. Depending on the complexity of that add on, it may be "easy" to add a new table to the logic ... send me a pm and perhaps we can work on this off line. I am a tad busy at the moment, but there is always a free time here and there...

You read all 51 pages? :0

Hello Chadd - While reading the thread, on found this post of yours. Is it possible?

I can't even imagine trying to manually keying in the quantity in stock for attributes. If you have 100s of products, with a size attribute of 5-7 different sizes! :yuck:

How do people do this in Zen?

Kevin205:

Hello Chadd - While reading the thread, on found this post of yours. Is it possible?

I can't even imagine trying to manually keying in the quantity in stock for attributes. If you have 100s of products, with a size attribute of 5-7 different sizes! :yuck:

How do people do this in Zen?

I've never used the stock by attributes mod, and would have to either examine the contrib to see what files it modifies. I'm insanely busy right now, and really need to finish the docs for EP4 and submit it to the zencart team before doing any MORE changes to it...

Diva probably just coded it herself :p

I understand. Thank you.

chadderuski:

I've never used the stock by attributes mod, and would have to either examine the contrib to see what files it modifies. I'm insanely busy right now, and really need to finish the docs for EP4 and submit it to the zencart team before doing any MORE changes to it...

Diva probably just coded it herself :p

hey chadd, im wondering, is there a way to add the price per word value using easy populate?

denniszc:

hey chadd, im wondering, is there a way to add the price per word value using easy populate?

Dennisz,

Please drop me a PM so we can chat off line. I've never done anything zencart that used documents, or price by work so I'll need you to give me a run down of your work flow...

-chadd

chadderuski:

Dennisz,

Please drop me a PM so we can chat off line. I've never done anything zencart that used documents, or price by work so I'll need you to give me a run down of your work flow...

-chadd

it's per "word" :p

anyway, pm sent

Hi,

I was trying to search info about disabled "Advanced Smart Tags" in the module. Is there a version working with that? We used to have with the older EP it working pretty ok, and the need would be for simple paragraph tagging, or bold text formatting, maybe bullets in the text.

Is there a way to place filter and filter for "Categories", "Manufacturer" and "Status", for exporting of the "Attrib-Detailed-EP" CSV?

As it is done for
Complete Products,
Model/Price/Qty and
Model/Price/Breaks

I don't see a reply to this thread, but I have been spinning my wheels with the same issue. Some of us newbies are way over our heads with a lot of ZC; so even "simple" instructions often need to be broken down into smaller pieces. In my case, I have a small wine shop, so my products are wines from a large number of producers, and I want categories of about a dozen regions, a few price ranges, and a few colors. Not that complicated. After loading several sample products and categories, I downloaded the product file and found that each product was listed several times, once for each subcategory, and that seemed wrong.

However, I don't know how to make use of this statement: "To achieve this, each v_categories_names_1, v_categories_names_2 correspond to a language installed in your system, and individual category names are separated by the Carat "^" symbol. For Example: Bar Supplies^Glass Washers^Brushes" A sample file illustrating this would be extremely helpful, along with some details about how the sample file accomplishes this. Not to mention, I have NO idea what the term "language" means in this context...!

Then the question after that would be, okay, what are the rules for naming and uploading my data file? I see the download file has a name like "FullEPYearDayTime.csv," so no help there.

Btw, my site (under construction) is https://www.artisanwineclub.com...

All help appreciated, thanks.

how do you add categories for other languages?

Kevin205:

Is there a way to place filter and filter for "Categories", "Manufacturer" and "Status", for exporting of the "Attrib-Detailed-EP" CSV?

As it is done for
Complete Products,
Model/Price/Qty and
Model/Price/Breaks

Not currently...

tenashi:

I don't see a reply to this thread, but I have been spinning my wheels with the same issue. Some of us newbies are way over our heads with a lot of ZC; so even "simple" instructions often need to be broken down into smaller pieces. In my case, I have a small wine shop, so my products are wines from a large number of producers, and I want categories of about a dozen regions, a few price ranges, and a few colors. Not that complicated. After loading several sample products and categories, I downloaded the product file and found that each product was listed several times, once for each subcategory, and that seemed wrong.

However, I don't know how to make use of this statement: "To achieve this, each v_categories_names_1, v_categories_names_2 correspond to a language installed in your system, and individual category names are separated by the Carat "^" symbol. For Example: Bar Supplies^Glass Washers^Brushes" A sample file illustrating this would be extremely helpful, along with some details about how the sample file accomplishes this. Not to mention, I have NO idea what the term "language" means in this context...!

Then the question after that would be, okay, what are the rules for naming and uploading my data file? I see the download file has a name like "FullEPYearDayTime.csv," so no help there.

Btw, my site (under construction) is https://www.artisanwineclub.com...

All help appreciated, thanks.

This is how I would do it:
First create Region categories (top category, ie: California, Italy, French, ...)

Second create Color categories per region (subcategory, ie: Reds, Whites, Roses, ...)

Third create Wine bottle for specific region and Color (Products. ie: Wine Red A, Wine Red B, ...)

When you export from EP4, **Complete Products (with Metatags) ** You should get a csv file similar to the following (The Horizontal record 1,2 & 3 and NOT rows 5 through 37, I transposed it, for you to see all cells!)

As for the language, I only use English, so I guess it's for carts that offer multilingual carts?

I hope it helps.

chadderuski:

Not currently...

Ok. Thank you.

I found a mistake myself, v_products_model should not be similar.

Yo Kevin205, Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated, and much food for thought. Still hard to operationalize with the aging brain, though.

So do categories have to be related linearly, as in your example: wines(products)= subset of colors = subset of regions. Is it possible to have wines=products, but with category1=regions, category2=subregions, category3=price group, etc., where each wine/product belongs to several categories of the same level? Where does v_categories_name2, etc. fit in? If all my products are wines (most are, but not all), does that mean all the wines would have to be under the same parent category (in this case, "region")?

Thanks!

Btw, some years ago I explored ZC for another site of mine, and found it too complicated. Lately I explored WPEC and found it too complicated, so came back to ZC. That decision was based on the observation that ZC is way more of a community, and even though a lot of this is a stretch for me, I really appreciate the fact that people here actually read and respond to these pleas for help. In today's world, that's a rare and beautiful thing. So thanks again.

tenashi:

Yo Kevin205, Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated, and much food for thought. Still hard to operationalize with the aging brain, though.

So do categories have to be related linearly, as in your example: wines(products)= subset of colors = subset of regions. Is it possible to have wines=products, but with category1=regions, category2=subregions, category3=price group, etc., where each wine/product belongs to several categories of the same level? Where does v_categories_name2, etc. fit in? If all my products are wines (most are, but not all), does that mean all the wines would have to be under the same parent category (in this case, "region")?

Thanks!

Btw, some years ago I explored ZC for another site of mine, and found it too complicated. Lately I explored WPEC and found it too complicated, so came back to ZC. That decision was based on the observation that ZC is way more of a community, and even though a lot of this is a stretch for me, I really appreciate the fact that people here actually read and respond to these pleas for help. In today's world, that's a rare and beautiful thing. So thanks again.

Please note that unless you have more than one language, you will only have an _1 for your name, descriptions, categories, etc.

Please review the documentation or the first couple pages of this thread where this was discussed in detail...

tenashi:

So do categories have to be related linearly, as in your example: wines(products)= subset of colors = subset of regions. Is it possible to have wines=products, but with category1=regions, category2=subregions, category3=price group, etc., where each wine/product belongs to several categories of the same level? Where does v_categories_name2, etc. fit in? If all my products are wines (most are, but not all), does that mean all the wines would have to be under the same parent category (in this case, "region")?

However you wish to categorize and subcategories, ending at a product. I always think of as a tree, by drawing a flowchart from top down.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but when uploading things that have quotes in them (such as html tables and such) MAKE SURE QUOTES ARE ESCAPED. using open office, all my quotes were escaped with additional quotes after exporting back to csv, so ```html

i was annoyed that my product's descriptions weren't updating, and that was the culprit. :)