Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

I am having getting the images of my entries to add. I typed everything perfectly. Any ideas?

davisz:

I am having getting the images of my entries to add. I typed everything perfectly. Any ideas?
best way to learn EP is to add 5 or so products normally then download the Tab file. look at the way things are shown in the Tab file. Then you will see the correct location(s) of the listed images.

Hello
I install Easy Populate 1.2.5.4
The system showed successful
But when I click Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit link, it ask for admin login, I login, click the link, but it still ask for admin login, then when I click the link or other link it always ask for admin login
Please help me. Thank you very much.

Thanks to the support team over at Hostgator.com, I was able have this issue resolved. It was a rather easy fix.

"The issue was with YOUR_ADMIN/includes/configure.php. In there was:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/');

We removed the trailing '/' here so the url is no longer http://YOUR_DOMAIN.com//manage and is now using http://YOUR_DOMAIN/manage. Once these changes were made and we re-logged into the zen-cart admin, it began working again."

I spent 2 whole days trying to figure this out. Again, big ups to hostgator support.
I found a soluation, but not fit to me
My YOUR_ADMIN/includes/configure.php is
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://127.0.0.1');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://127.0.0.1');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://127.0.0.1');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://127.0.0.1');

dutchy:

best way to learn EP is to add 5 or so products normally then download the Tab file. look at the way things are shown in the Tab file. Then you will see the correct location(s) of the listed images.

I'm sorry, I almost followed what you said!

Could you please rephrase?

Thx

After rereading your post. i understand what you were saying. In fact, that is what I did. I already had products on the site, and downloaded the file to see how they were formatted (This is how I correctly added the new product). The only error was that the image did not show up where it was supposed to go, but the product name description etc was there.

Hi,
I have successfully uploaded all the products needed, but would like to add some final touched to the descriptions using the Admin/Catalog/Catagories and Products tool, but all products show empty fields there :( Would it be possible to change that so that I could edit my products from Admin as well?

siilike1232:

Hi,
I have successfully uploaded all the products needed, but would like to add some final touched to the descriptions using the Admin/Catalog/Catagories and Products tool, but all products show empty fields there :( Would it be possible to change that so that I could edit my products from Admin as well?

What "fields" are empty?

Hi, I'm just getting startde with easy populate and I have a few questions.

I'm trying to make updating the site as simple as possible so I was wondering if

I can rename v_products etc in the code to match our products database file?

or if not,

i could use an OO macro to format the products file - rename /reorder columns and if anyone has done that or could help?

I don't need attributes or group pricing so is there any advantage in using those or should i stick with 1.2.4.5? What about easy populate CSV?

Do the columns in the products upload file need to be in order or just renamed?

Thanks,

schoolboy:

What "fields" are empty?
All fields except the max and min quantity and product quantity units.

Can anyone help with any of those questions?

marknew:

Can anyone help with any of those questions?
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate
All explained at above wiki article...stick with EP version 1.2.5.4...

Hi, I've been playing around with 1.2.5.4 for a while as well as the newer versions.
1.2.5.4 only accepts TABdelimited files, but you also have to pay close attention to the FIELD-delimiter. That must be the " on both sides. Safest thing to do is to open the file in e.g. Open Office write, then copy the lot to a spreadsheet page, work it over there, then copy it back to write, convert the table back to text and save it from there to a new TXT-file. I've got a million or so (well... 70+) different files saved and all EP does is upload it and that's it.

You can go another way, but that is way more tricky and I advise you to really really first backup your complete database very well:
If you only use a few fields, you can make a CSV-dump from PHPmyadmin, edit that and re-import that. Make sure you have you set the import to overwrite.

DON't use it when you have attributes and make sure you have the category and subcategory numbers right.

OK, thanks. One more question. My products have a link to PDF files . These can be downloaded to give customers more info about the product before they decide to buy. Can EP handle those? What field should I use?

Forgot the link.
Like this -
http://smartline.open24x7.biz/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=13

Can EP handle those?
What field should I use?

Thanks again.

Hi

Im having a bit of trouble with easy populate 1.2.5.4, I am able to populate as may items as i want with out any problems at all but when I try to add images to these items using easy populate it uploads the items ok but not the images.

I dont know why it wont because I have all the images named correctly in the excel file and i have imported the images to the images folder for the website using ftp. So i seem to be doing everything correct but its still not working! :(

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks
Niall

NiallO58:

Hi

Im having a bit of trouble with easy populate 1.2.5.4, I am able to populate as may items as i want with out any problems at all but when I try to add images to these items using easy populate it uploads the items ok but not the images.

I dont know why it wont because I have all the images named correctly in the excel file and i have imported the images to the images folder for the website using ftp. So i seem to be doing everything correct but its still not working! :(

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks
Niall

Let us know an example of the CONTENT in one of the spreadsheet cells for your images.

For example, you may have my-image.jpg in one of the cells.

Just tell us EXACTLY the name (or words) you have entered into one of these cells.

zc V1.39

Can someone take a look at my EP file and tell me whay some of the products aren't loading.

I can send a you a Zip file and the line numbers I'm having a problem with.

Is there a way to attribute multiple styles in ep? In other words is I had an item that comes in three colors and wanted to provide a color select box on the product page, how would I do this with ep?

Also how would I make an item from one subcategory be a linked item in another subcategory?

Thanks in advance.

how do you set the product type for EP?
Read the wiki, searched the forum but can't find the answer...

Thanks!