easy populate advanced 3

Found this

http://www.zencartbuilder.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_6&products_id=1

can't see it on the contributions here just wondering if people had seen or used this one??

That is paid version by Langer..original dev of for EasyPopulate..
His free version, 1.2.5.4 still works up to/including zencart 1.3.8a..
As far as am aware, paid release also works fine,
though never used it myself..
Large thread exists for EP..suggest you
use search function here.

Question, can you move product to different catagories with the free version, or do you have to get the advance version for the? Asking, bcuz I need to be able to move new product from New product catagory to their correct catagories created. thinking of buying advanced, but if no need to then that would be great.

JC67:

Question, can you move product to different catagories with the free version, or do you have to get the advance version for the? Asking, bcuz I need to be able to move new product from New product catagory to their correct catagories created. thinking of buying advanced, but if no need to then that would be great.
Sorry, no idea. Have not used free version for attempting what you require.
However, you can move products between categories, using zencart admin.

Yeah, but only one at a time. My site have over 24,000 pieces of product : ) so i need to move multiable products at once. Thanks anyways
https://www.myhomeplay.com

16913 products :O

bet that took ages to enter all them.

JC67:

Question, can you move product to different catagories with the free version, or do you have to get the advance version for the? Asking, bcuz I need to be able to move new product from New product catagory to their correct catagories created. thinking of buying advanced, but if no need to then that would be great.
As your best answer would be from someone who has already tried & done that, best to try it yourself if no one can provide that type answer. Just make sure to backup your database first. Remember also there may be some movement required regarding which images are where.

Website Rob:

As your best answer would be from someone who has already tried & done that, best to try it yourself if no one can provide that type answer. Just make sure to backup your database first. Remember also there may be some movement required regarding which images are where.I ordered it so will give it a try, and according to zencartbuilders, yes you can move product from catagory to catagory with EP Advance Thanks for your answers

JC67:

and according to zencartbuilders, yes you can move product from catagory to catagory with EP Advance
Can we presume then that if using the Free Module (from the Zen Cart Downloads section) that option is not available?

Just wondering if that question was asked by you and/or answered by zencartbuilders.

Website Rob:

Can we presume then that if using the Free Module (from the Zen Cart Downloads section) that option is not available?

Just wondering if that question was asked by you and/or answered by zencartbuilders.

That's correct, moving product from catagory to catagory is NOT available in the free version, on;y available in the advanced version

Thank you for the clarification.

I've just installed easypopulate

How does easypopulate choose what character set to use. I want it to use a certain character set when posting information in. I.e it posts information into my db but unless I switch to utf-8 in my web browser it doesn't display correctly on my website. All my other information is in windows-1251 charset and displays correctly and that is what character set I need it to display correctly in.
I think I'm looking to change a variable somewhere to set this manually rather than look it up but don't know where

Thanks

Seems that I was not opening up my exported data with the correct character set in Office calc. Once I did that and saved it resolved issue.

However I'm having another issue where I can only seem to user easypopulate for the default product type. I have product type book by moku and easy populate advance - latest version and it doesn't seem to import the data into this product type

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated if you have used easypopulate with other product types other than the standard ones installed.

Does advanced easy populate work for music type products? i am using the free version and it uploads the products as "general type" and i need it to work for "music type" products.
Your input is appreciated!

if any of you think about buying easy populate advanced.... think again. Customer support = nothing.
I have an open ticket since oct 5th.
That should be something very very difficult...since it takes such a long time.

Guess again ! The only thing I asked was to resend the zipfile with the easypopulate files in it, since I had a hd crash and lost my zipfile.

Makes you wonder : if they can't even solve that problem ("can you resend my zipfile, this is my ordernumber...") what can they do about a serious problem ?

I did get some feed back but as his mod as not been updated for around 2 years .. I do not think he intends on release further updates / bug fixes.

My Easy populate 3.03 sets all products to be live so I have to remove the offline products before making any changes. other than that its a great tool but I was hoping for some updates / support too.

JC67:

That's correct, moving product from category to category is NOT available in the free version, on;y available in the advanced version

This is not correct. I do this all the time myself. I can only tell how it is done in EP free, not in advanced.

If you just change the category for a SKU before uploading the file, it will link the existing product to that category instead of moving it. But there is a twist.

Download the complete SKU list with EP. change v_status to "9" on all products and upload and run. Then your shop will be empty.
Change all statuses back to 1, and change the categories as you want. Now upload the file again, and abracadabra, you did it with the free version!