Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

Oh, forgot one! Also in Admin -> Tools -> Store Manager run "Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID"!

Am I missing something?

bought the advanced easy populate a few days ago from the zencartbuilder site but not received anything - was expecting to be sent a direct download link or something?

Is the big man away or someat? I don't want to sound impatient but I've a week of being laid up sick ahead of me and would like to have a good crack at finishing my zen cart build

Rob-adrenalfuel:

Is the big man away?
He has been AWOL for a while.

ckosloff:

He has been AWOL for a while.

Oh dear, I could be waiting a while for my mod then?

Is the free (standard) version of easy populate stable enough for use on a live site?

Rob-adrenalfuel:

Oh dear, I could be waiting a while for my mod then?

Maybe like 10,000 years. :smile: Ask for your money back, or maybe a kind soul in this forum will send it over to you. I don't have it.

Yes, I have used the latest successfully, however don't expect it to handle your attributes entirely well.
It is rumored that the paid version can do this, but I don't think so, I have very complex settings and have to do that manually.

Right new problem,

After installing Easy populate my zen cart back end starts playing up. after installation I'm no longer able to use the back end as it prompts me to log in after every attempt to navigate around the admin area.

The server I am using uses a .htacess set up, I think this has something to do with it as it the only big difference between this server config and the various locally installed test stores I've made. Does anyone know how I can get around this problem? or if this is indeed my problem at all

Rather Lost
Rob

Rob-adrenalfuel:

Oh dear, I could be waiting a while for my mod then?

Last contact I had with Langer was two (2) years ago this month! Modhole is down. No telling how long zencartbuilder.com will be up ... ?

I did notice that CreLoaded for OsCommerce has Easy Populate Advanced included with it. I have not tested this myself, however, and don't know if the attributes work correctly, or what version it is.

ZenCart's attribute system is very flexible. This in turn translates into some rather complex logic if one were to automatically populate their store with attributes FULLY supported. This is probably why it has not been fixed for zencart.

We'll see what the near future holds ;p

I have the newest zencart and the 1.2.5.4 version of EB and when I load my inventory file using their template everything works fine. However when I load the update file from the model/price/quantity file all of my pricing disappears. I tried to load it with the normal template and then again taking out the special pricing sections but neither worked.

I’m stuck bad the last thing I need to do is get the updates to take and I’m done with the thing.

Any help please?

motobuddy:

I have the newest zencart and the 1.2.5.4 version of EB and when I load my inventory file using their template everything works fine. However when I load the update file from the model/price/quantity file all of my pricing disappears. I tried to load it with the normal template and then again taking out the special pricing sections but neither worked.

I’m stuck bad the last thing I need to do is get the updates to take and I’m done with the thing.

Any help please?

Motobuddy: Go into your Tools > Store Manager and run both "Update All Products' Attribute Sort Orders" and "Update ALL Products Price Sorter"

You may also want to run "Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID" as EP is a bit buggy getting this correct.

-cj

Hi All! Just blowing off steam here >> Just wanted to say the that the Model/Attributes code and exported data is absolutely worthless! <<

Now... let's see if I can write something better ;p

BTW. I have taken all three (er 4 if I include my own modded EP) and properly "forked" them into their own discrete modules. What does that mean? That I can run all easy populate mods (TAB, OSC and CSV) side by side. Was easy to do. Been "fixing" stuff too (translate as chainsaw vs code) ... not sure what the outcome will be at this point ... but the goal is to FINALLY have a stable working EP for 1.38 core without all the guff.

-cj

Hey Everyone,

So glad to have found this for Easy Populate. I've got a distributor sending me EasyPopulate files. The products have MULTIPLE CATEGORIES ... and they are not "sub-categories" of one another. If I put each category in v_categories_name_1 - 7 ... they appear as sub-categories of category 1, correct?

Is there any way to designate separate categories for a single product? (like, a case that fit and iPod and an iTouch, etc) ... and do so so WITHOUT having to have the product listed multiple times in the feed?

In other words - do I have to put the product as a separate row in the file for each "separate" category i want it displayed under?

Hope that makes sense.
Fred

chadderuski:

Motobuddy: Go into your Tools > Store Manager and run both "Update All Products' Attribute Sort Orders" and "Update ALL Products Price Sorter"

You may also want to run "Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID" as EP is a bit buggy getting this correct.

-cj

No luck though, either I do apertiate the help though. the "Update ALL Products Price Sorter"
always locks up with the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error I get when I upload files. Maybe I am doing somthing wrong with the form sheet. Do I leave the special priceing sections in or remove them, or put in a field to show they are not used?

I reload my original inventory file and all the priceing comes right back.

motobuddy:

No luck though, either I do apertiate the help though. the "Update ALL Products Price Sorter"
always locks up with the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error I get when I upload files. Maybe I am doing somthing wrong with the form sheet. Do I leave the special priceing sections in or remove them, or put in a field to show they are not used?

I reload my original inventory file and all the priceing comes right back.

1. Download and use FireFox and throw IE in the trash :P

2. Could you either link your problematic model/price/qty file or PM it to me? I seem to remember an issue in EP with this when I was making model/price/breaks work.

Are you specifying dates or data for the v_specials_price, v_specials_date_avail, and v_specials_expires_date? IF NOT, delete these columns. AND

Are you ending EVERY line with EOREOR? AND

Have you made sure you have NO data in any column after the EOREOR column? Hilight a dozen or so columns after EOREOR and delete them for good measure.

-cj

Update on my issue, hopefully someone can help.

Whenever I attempt to download a file from the easy populate console the admin prompts me to log in, and won't actually allow me to log in until I clear my zen cart cookies. I wonder if this is something to do with my store using .htaccess files?

Similar things occur when I tried to uninstall easy populate using the YOUR_ADMIN/easypopulate.php?langer=remove address in my browser

Really am stuck with whats causing this

chadderuski:

1. Download and use FireFox and throw IE in the trash :P

2. Could you either link your problematic model/price/qty file or PM it to me? I seem to remember an issue in EP with this when I was making model/price/breaks work.

Are you specifying dates or data for the v_specials_price, v_specials_date_avail, and v_specials_expires_date? IF NOT, delete these columns. AND

Are you ending EVERY line with EOREOR? AND

Have you made sure you have NO data in any column after the EOREOR column? Hilight a dozen or so columns after EOREOR and delete them for good measure.

-cj

I apertiate your time, after I deleted the two rows after and started using firefox it started working.
Everything is looking good.

Hey Gang,

I'm using the newer Easy Populate CSV 1.2.5.6.csv.2 version, so I hope there is help here, I didn't see thread for that specific version.

When I upload my file, it seems to be accepted fine, but the products that I upload aren't showing up anywhere - not as active or inactive, and then when I export from EasyPopulate, it's not there.

I'm uploading the .csv and after hitting "insert into db" I get the following response:

**File uploaded.
Temporary filename: /tmp/phppIRoVJ
User filename: gsn-epfile.csv
Size: 1652

Upload Complete**

This is a link to my file I'm uploading - can anyone give me any idea why this isn't showing up? Even the category I put in there (ie. MacBook 13", etc) doesn't show up ... the manufacturer "Abbi" is a brand new one for our store, and it doesn't show up ... basically, even though the response above suggests the file uploaded properly, it doesn't seem to be going into the database.

Link to my file:
http://www.getskinsnow.com/gsn-epfile.csv

I'm running the latest, updated version of ZenCart, 1.3.8 A

flatlanderoutfitters:

I would like to put in for two requests for a new version, and for now, some advice on how to get done what I want to do (Hacking EP to make it work like I want)

First off, reading the code, it looks like it would be fairly easy to add a feature where users can customize a "map" so they can upload a spreadsheet from a supplier's inventory list (without it needing to be zencart compatible) and the headings from that .csv would be "mapped" to the correct fields (I.E. ProdImage => v_products_image )

That way in admin user can set up their own mapping for the data files they wish to upload (or even better a simple point and click interface)

for example, have an area (probably in config) that users can upload a truncated spreadsheet (headings plus 1 row of data) and the code would parse it and display it in a couple of rows, with the required rows for easypopulate below or above , and take the number value from easypopulate fields and enter it to the new spreadsheet rows , indicating which column matches which (it's easier to visualize than to explain) and when everything is set, save the values, with a name they choose - and use that map to parse data from the user's uploads, and they could select the "format name" from a drop down list , default easypopulate .. and easypopulate could simply use that "map info" to parse the given spreadsheet and match it up with what's required.

it would save a massive amount of time. (I'm currently digging around in the code to figure out how to make this happen to direct upload a Doba spreadsheet without altering it)

and Secondly, add a couple of fields to easypopulate for "cost" and "markup" so the user could also include their cost price of the item and customize the markup % , rather than having to figure it for each item, or use the list price. - even better, make it so that markups can be calculated based on a formula set in config (I.E. < $10, markup 40% , $10.01 - $100 markup 30%, $100.01+ , markup 20%) - (I actually have a script that I run commandline right now to parse a "updates" file from supplier with quantity,price,available date, minimum advertised price, and list price, on which I do that sort of operation - but it would be nice to be able to simply upload a fresh spreadsheet with updated data and letting easypopulate calculate the price according to formula)

Now, as for the above two features, I am going to be developing this for myself and a client as well (and probably others that will also want this feature, once they find out about it) an I would like some advice from developers on where the important stuff of the code is- namely - which file and where is the parsing done that reads in the easypopulate csv file and pushes it into the database - and also where is the actual updates to database being done.

It'd help immensely in reading unfamiliar code..

WOW sounds like a God Send....has this happened or any part there of.....I know it would certainly make my life a lot easier. :yes:

This Zenner Could Really Use Some Help Please!!!

I have read every single one of these 254 pages of posts, but I am in somewhat of a confused state about which one of the EP modules to install and from where to download it.

I have Zen 138a..On PHP 5.2.1
My supplier sends me some sort of Jumbled up CSV file daily which has a heap of products most I sell some I dont.
My cart has already loaded by hand around 500 products only about 25 with attributes....
This appears the hot favourite Version 1.2.5.4 namely Langer's version from Modhole....

Also someone mentioned the following a few pages back..............Does anyone know anything about this? I am a little nervous about getting it.....at $ 149.00 and dont know what the benefits are vs the free versions.

Any help and opions would be really appreciated.

Thanks
Renz

Store Manager for Zen Cart is a Windows application

Renz:

Store Manager for Zen Cart

That is a client-side management interface from MagneticOne. I have "test-driven" it and I liked it very much. This does not constitute an endorsement for the product, but is just my opinion of their software.

Store manager is a commercial product, and I have seen some disguised advertising in this forum for it.
I am not saying this last post is, but certainly others were.
I don't think that they offer trial periods.
Unable to say if it handles complex attribute structures properly.