Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

KellyM You would need to give us more details to help you...

EP works well, but has some strange querks. You need a product in a category placed in ZC manually for EP to import correctly, if you try to import without any products EP does not work properly.

If you arrange your .txt file as in the wiki EP will work, but it does need that format.

I wonder why I cannot delete a subcategory?
c_categories_index_path=level1~level2
c_categories_status=9
EOREOR

says "
ERROR! - Action not implemented yet on row 2 - Deletion of categories is not implemented yet"

I tried adding category name, sort order, same results.

Please help.
thanks

Does Easy populate also export other fields like UPC , does it work with numinix additional fields?

hi, is it possible to add images with it? So far i have tried b ut unscuccessful so far .
also is it possible to add the order status to it?

shadowcast:

hi, is it possible to add images with it? So far i have tried b ut unscuccessful so far .
also is it possible to add the order status to it?

if you are talking about adding category images, you can add a column "c_categories_image"

anybody can help with deleting categories?

its the product image

shadowcast:

its the product image

the main product image is set with "v_products_image" (should be your 2nd column).

well it didn work, what im gonna try is to upload the images into the main directory first thought :).

shadowcast:

well it didn work, what im gonna try is to upload the images into the main directory first thought :).

Hi,
Images cannot be loaded thru EP. You will need to FTP them into the "Images" folder.

anybody know how i can use EP to delete a category?

Quick question. Can more description columns be added to Easy Populate, such as v_products_description_2 and v_products_description_3? If so, how would I do that, just add and name the columns, or would I have to insert something into one of the php files?

This would be incredibly convenient as I have a few short paragraphs that I'm pasting to the end of my product descriptions, and to be able to put them in another column and fill down would be great!

Thanks!

How can I add product upc field in EP?

Quick question. Can more description columns be added to Easy Populate, such as v_products_description_2 and v_products_description_3? If so, how would I do that, just add and name the columns, or would I have to insert something into one of the php files?

This would be incredibly convenient as I have a few short paragraphs that I'm pasting to the end of my product descriptions, and to be able to put them in another column and fill down would be great!

EP can use spreadsheets so you just need to google how to use a spreadsheet to do what you want to do. Will take seconds to complete the task using exist spreadsheet capabilities.

The more complicated and customized you make something the tougher to manage.

How can I add product upc field in EP?

This one I am not so sure of but couldn't you just replace the model number generated by zencart with the UPC code and solve the problem?

I have not done that myself but I don't think that zencart determined number has any bearing on anything so swapping it for your UPC's should work.

Do a test run on a few skus and see what happens. The one issue there is your sales history on the altered model numbers would be lost and or have to be combined with the new UPC version.

Hi

I apologise if this question has already been answered, but I haven't yet been able to find what I'm looking for.

I have just recently duplicated a store and everything is working fine - except that Easy Populate doesn't seem to import category images and descriptions.

Is there any way I can get it to import these, as doing it manually would take ages.

Thanks,
Tija

Thanks Jimmy, I used numinix product fields and have UPC field, anyway to incorporate this into EP?

Is numenix an add on? Can you shoot a link on that thing as I am not familiar and this way I don't have to look it up.

I can view the packet and see what it is doing and see if EP can be practically altered for that use.

here you go http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=651

and

http://www.numinix.com/zen-cart-modules/admin/numinix-product-fields?zenid=035c7e75ba79c7d15948714ae61f99ad

can you see if that can be easily implemented

Thanks

I have just recently duplicated a store and everything is working fine - except that Easy Populate doesn't seem to import category images and descriptions.

Is there any way I can get it to import these, as doing it manually would take ages.

To do this using EP you would need to add the relevant fields into an easy populate custom build. Which would take a while to build and would be custom such that you will have added hassle during all upgrades etc. BUT even if you did this you'd still need to manually install all your images unless you knoew the exact file names and even still you'd have to manually enter the file names anyway in the relevant line-items

Easier would likely be an image ftp and also a db copy of the relevant tables which would be pretty easy to do especially since the thing is an exact dup.

For that matter if it truly is a dup db then you could probably drop the entire table and then import the "other" working one into the "new" build.

Thats the direction I'd go first anyway as it would take only a couple minutes to accomplish. Here is how I'd do it...

1. take your current "new" db and copy it to a new new db for testing.

2. find the table in question and drop the relevant data

3. import the populated data from your "old" db

4. ftp the images into identical folder en masse

test to see if it worked. Pretty sure this logic would work if you monkey around with the method a bit to your exact needs