Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

I've actually verified that it is EP and nothing else doing it. If I enter the product names/descriptions in manually, I have no problem. It's just when it's loaded with EP. We had to sit and add "<br />" in the product names where it should have been wrapping itself in EP to get it to go on a second line, which solves the problem for now, but is not a very efficient way of solving the problem for future use.

The site is HERE. It's an adult site so be warned. You will see now that everything looks alright, but it's because we sat and inserted line breaks on everything.

khopek:

I've actually verified that it is EP and nothing else doing it. If I enter the product names/descriptions in manually, I have no problem. It's just when it's loaded with EP. We had to sit and add "<br />" in the product names where it should have been wrapping itself in EP to get it to go on a second line, which solves the problem for now, but is not a very efficient way of solving the problem for future use.

The site is HERE. It's an adult site so be warned. You will see now that everything looks alright, but it's because we sat and inserted line breaks on everything.

I took a look, but would need to see what your data is like when you upload it. If you are talking about the * bulleted points, you can use an unordered list like:

That will put each part on a separate line. Also, there is some notes in the easypopulate.php code about how to handle carriage returns and replacing them with <br> breaks. But I haven't fiddles with that. The build in editor will respect line breaks, but this is different than inputing a stream of text as the editor handles it for you.

chadderuski:

Actually, easypopulate need the temp folder to be permissions 777

ya, I know this isn't very safe! but try that. if it works, then make a new cryptic temp directory hackers want easily find.

oh, most if not all files will be 644 (thought your custom zen pages are different), and normally the directories are 755, but the temp folder for ep needs to be 777.

-cj
Thanks again -- I sure was hoping my permissions on temp were 755 BUT it was already set at 777!! I'm going to start manually updating inventory (ugh!) but if anyone has anywhere else I can check please let me know. Thanks!
Lynne :no:

Guys i have installed the EP on the store that i have currently the Products on and went to Tools>Easy Populate and chose the Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit i downloaded the text file . i also installed EP on the new store that i want to import my products. i went to the same spot and i chose Upload EP File and browsed the txt file that i downloaded from my current shop and i pressed on insert to db. after couple seconds i got No model field in record. This line was not imported and in front of this error the name of the products. i can see the Category on the shop but i cant see any of the product or images, can anybody please help me get this working

Thank you so much

pzgoozi:

Guys i have installed the EP on the store that i have currently the Products on and went to Tools>Easy Populate and chose the Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit i downloaded the text file . i also installed EP on the new store that i want to import my products. i went to the same spot and i chose Upload EP File and browsed the txt file that i downloaded from my current shop and i pressed on insert to db. after couple seconds i got No model field in record. This line was not imported and in front of this error the name of the products. i can see the Category on the shop but i cant see any of the product or images, can anybody please help me get this working

Thank you so much

I had this same problem. If you're on a Mac make sure you are saving your file as a "Windows comma separated" CSV.

If you're not on a Mac I don't know if my post will help!

Can I remove Easy Populate by simply deleting all the files that I previously installed? It's not working and I thought I'd just remove it -- did any other files get modified when I install this add-on?

thanks.
Lynne

I've removed all the EP files but I still have a listing in my Admin/Configuration menu. I see that EP is still in the table called "Configuration_Group" in the database.

Does anyone know how it got added to this table and how to properly remove it?

I used EasyPopulate successfully last year every month and then it just stopped working. I have been unable to fix the problem and so am removing the add-on.

If anyone knows of another way to update inventory, I'd love to hear. Thanks!

Lynne, I am sorry to learn that you've been battling with EP, and that you have decided to remove it.

I think that the problem may be something to do with the formatting of the TXT file you are uploading to the server.

Have you tried doing an EP update just by using the "browse for file" option (ie: loading the file from the browser, instead of porting it first to the temp folder)?

Despite its fussy behaviour, EP remains the best way of uploading huge quantities of product data.

Perhaps you should re-consider your decision, re-install EP, and try using the "browse for file" option - using smaller volumes of product data at a time (200 - 300 products at a time).

I have successfully used EP this way on a list of products over 4000 deep - admittedly, the product descriptions were very short, but it all went through...

If you have a "test" shop, try this in the test environment first.

Forum member "phazei" has introduced a CSV version of EP (as opposed to TAB DELIMITED TXT). There is a support thread for his/her version, but note that you need PHP ver 5.2 on the server for the CSV version to work.

can someone tell me which db columns does categories_name_1 and categories_name_2 in easy populate reefer to
as i havent been able to figure out myself....
Thanks

lizar5-:

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to make all my products "product is virtual" with easy populate. At the moment all my products are prompting the customer for a shipping address which I dont want.

Since the original answer to this post was in the negative, and I've spent all night figuring out how to make this happen, perhaps someone else will benefit from my searching...

Yes, this can be done by adding the additional field 'products_virtual' to the array in easypopulate.php
Since the field 'products_virtual' already exists in the products table of a stock zen cart install, the field will not need to be created as would be the case to add a custom product field.

I would post the full code, but it is too large to do so. There is a great post in this thread about how to add fields to EP here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=643261#post643261

FWIW, I was working w/ EP1.2.5.4, but I imagine this would be the same for other versions.

Hope this saves someone else a night of searching,
Peace,
Audra

superprg:

can someone tell me which db columns does categories_name_1 and categories_name_2 in easy populate reefer to
as i havent been able to figure out myself....
Thanks

Yes. An example product, a shirt that, in my product catalog resides in Women's->Tops->Casual

categories_name_1 refers to your top level category, in our example: Women's

categories_name_2 refers to your 2nd level category, in our example: Tops

categories_name_3 refers to your 3rd level category, in our example: Casual

and so on. If your categories do not go as deep as 7, just leave them blank (although there is a spot to define how deep you would like your categories to download in the EP dowloaded file in admin->Configuration-->Easy Populate.)

HTH,
Audra

pzgoozi:

No model field in record. This line was not imported and in front of this error the name of the products. i can see the Category on the shop but i cant see any of the product or images, can anybody please help me get this working

Thank you so much

Do all of your products have unique model #s? That is a required feature for using EP as model #s are the identifying information for each product.

Audra

I have to let everyone know...I finally got EP to work!!!!:clap::clap:

I have to double check excel file after last column of EOREOR and make sure I delete extra columns. And anything else that could possibly mess it up. And I double check txt file for any weird errors like /, ?, etc.

Thank you so much to everyone that helped. I really appreciate it!
Kim

Hi guys
easy populate is acting like its working upload results read complete but the products don't show up on the site , previous uploads are ok but this one won't do.
Will redownloading easy populate do?

goldenhues:

Hi guys
easy populate is acting like its working upload results read complete but the products don't show up on the site , previous uploads are ok but this one won't do.
Will redownloading easy populate do?

Sometime you may need to go into your admin > store manager and run "Update ALL Products Price Sorter" ... EP is supposed to do this, but I have found it unreliable. This may also be affecting some of the other questions above on why it works on a clean install and not on others.

-cj

Hi All... I have a similar problem, EZ Populate will not download files nor upload files, it just takes you to the admin login screen.

i am running ez 1.2.5.4 + zen 1.3.8.a + php5

seens some others had this problem but have not posted a fix in the general questions post.

any help would greatly be appreciated... I have installed and re-installed 3 times.

One thing I notice is the txt file is not being saved like previous txt files some of the products and categories are next to each other like v_products_modelvproducts_image , ProductAProductB,
when it should be v_products_model vproducts_image , ProductA ProductB there is no space between many items.

ok, I deleted some files and got the install to LOOK like it worked correctly. it even downloaded a sample sheet(with correct spacing/seperating/order) into the temp folder. however, it i try to download more sheets... it goes to the admin login page.

all models have model #'s.

I'm using 1.3.8 Zen Cart and the free version of EZ Populate.

I noticed (belatedly of course) that when I download/upload the attribute report it strips the connection to the downloadable product files.

Is this an issue with the program or is it something I am doing wrong? I've looked in the attribute file for a place to put the file name but have not found it. Is it named something I'm just not connecting? Thanks!

Shari

Hi, I'm using Easy Populate and I am experiencing a strange problem when trying to use the 'Models/Attributes' part of the plugin.

I wait and end up with a Internal 500 server error.

I set the max time on the 'My Store > Admin Set max_execution_time for processes' to something very large (from 60 to 6000) but still no luck.

It doesn't work on either of the 'Stream txt file' or the 'Create txt in temp/ directory' settings.

The strange bit is I can use the 'Complete' txt part no problems.

Any ideas why only the Model/Attributes part is broken and not the complete database (its the attributes I want to download!)?

The store only has around 3-4000 items in it - is there a limit to what it will happily export? Or is the problem with the server (timeout length etc)?

Thanks,
dp