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Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support
I'll try to answer as best as I can, in the order I see them listed on my screen.
tenashi:
After downloading EP you un-zip it to a local drive and directory, in my case it is E:\temp on a windoze system, or /home/temp on an *nix system. When you uncompress it keep the file/directory structure. You will see a number of directories (folders), and they will contain files. For me /MY_STORE/whatever is /public_html/zencart/whatever. Using an FTP program just upload the files from the local directory to your Zen Cart directory with the same name. There is not much more to it. And no, you do not need to upload the text files, that is for you to read.
peppyone:
The more fancy you get, and the more customized you want EP, the more chances to encounter problems. My suggestions include setting up a database on your own computer, likeMySQ, and using it to help manage your products, and create the files for EP. After getting the database set up and loaded with the information you could use the following commands:
UPDATE table_name SET v_status = 0 WHERE v_products_image_1 = 'no_image.gif';
UPDATE table_name SET v_categories_1 = 'new_category_name' WHERE v_categories_1 = 'old_categories_name;
--* OR --*-
UPDATE table_name SET v_status = 0, v_categories_1 = 'new_category_name' WHERE v_products_image_1 = 'no_image.gif';
That is the general format based on MySQL, and you would replace the names with what you have chosen. Then expert just what you need so you don't use up more resources than you need to. Open in a spreadsheet, or use a special batch file, and insert the header info that EP needs. (Hint: open a comand prompt in windoze, and use copy file_1.ext + file_2.ext file_3.ext, or in *nix open a terminal and concat the two files into one - this would append the data file you exported to the EP header) In the Zen Cart admin area you would then delete the misc. category after you have things moved.
It may be easier to use the first update command, export the changed files, and instead of setting the status to 0 have it set to 9, so EP can delete the current mess. Delete the now empty category in Zen Cart. Then repeat the update command, this time with the status set to 0, add the new categories, and export, and upload with EP. Status of 0 is disabled, 1 is active, and 9 is delete.
The linking you have to do yourself.
wtashby:
Two things. First, while it is fine to test everything on a dedicated computer that you may have just lying around, most hosting companies restrict how much one user can do at a time on a shared host, so it may take a while for everything to show up from the customer side of things, or Zen Cart may be just slow crunching the info. Next, you may want to flush the cache of your browser and see if that helps any.
Well folks, I hope that helps some. Please let us know how everything goes.
