Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

yuenyiupang:

But i really find this problem, becasue i have try many time with a new shop which only contains 2 categories and 2 products
after import it will become 4 products

Also note if you misspell a category name even by case > Nails vs nails > it will create a linked product and new category! And YES you MUST have unique item model numbers to use EP.

yuenyiupang:

Well this will not happen in easy populate advance 3.0
Maybe BUT this thread is supporting
** Easy Populate support for Version 1.2.5.4**
and so unique model names are required.

Alright I'm assuming this isn't first time asked:

I got Easypopulate installed and everything, I downloaded spreadsheet to use as template, did an entire catagory via excel, saved, uploaded to tempEP directory, imported to DB via Easypopulate.

Upload Results

Filename: Full-EP2009Feb12-0012.csv

No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | Rarity: Un | | | | | 2.5 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | | | | | | 3.5 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | | | | | | 5.5 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | | | | | | 3.5 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | | | | | | 4.95 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon | | | | | | 7.99 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | | | | | | 5.5 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | | | | | | 7.99 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
No model field in record. This line was not importedtorch.gif | Amazon Hel | | | | | | 17.95 | 0 | | 2/12/2009 | 1000 | | East Ladde | Large Char | Amazon Tor | | | | | --none-- | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
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But never showed up in my category or cart in general.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I don't use model field that's why that comes up so often :D

I don't use model field that's why that comes up so often
Easy Populate will NOT work unless EVERY PRODUCT has
UNIQUE model number.

misty:

Easy Populate will NOT work unless EVERY PRODUCT has
UNIQUE model number.

There was no model number in spreadsheet when I edited it...did I just overlook it or did I download wrong?

Oh never mind misty sorry I was dumb there lol.

Just cataloged 500 items and it worked :D

Thanks

How do I uninstall EP?

I've got something corrupt, and I need to start over.

I'm imagining that there is a DB entry that needs to be removed... but I don't see an uninstall script.

I think I had 2 different versions of EP running... trying to get the latest 1.2.5.5.csv to work...

thanks

Matt

Never mind... I was able to get it uninstalled... and for the record, I went back to Langers 1.2.5.4 ....

What did I do?

removed all reference in configuration_groups and configuration to "Easy Populate" removed all easypopulate*.php files in admin/ and reinstalled per 1.2.5.4 instructions.

Don't forget that I have an Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 tutorial at:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am trying to upload about 24,000 inventory items. EP was originally giving me errors, but I quickly fixed that with a fresh install of EP. I guess I did something wrong to in the initial installation.

Now, under my Upload Results, I am getting the green NEW PRODUCT! - Model: 123456 (and so on)

However, when I go to Admin / Categories , it says "25,483 of 28608 Active" next to the Inventory Category (that is the category I directed the upload to). However, when I click on the category...nothing. Through the website, none of the part numbers are coming up in the search, either. Can anyone tell me what went wrong?

I forgot to give the website

https://www.elcomstore.com

The Inventory category is the first. It shows the 25,483 items next to it. But when you click it, you only get 3 pages of linked product. That was product numbers that were already in other categories. I am working to get all unique numbers, or drop the linked numbers from their original categories (so they end up in the Inventory category as unlinked).

Jim

-= Importing with some columns deleted =-

I thought that when I import previously exported and then edited file, where I deleted some columns (but NOT v_products_model neither EOREOR), everything will go fine. But it did not.

I noticed, that when I delete JUST the column named v_products_description_2 (I use just one language, added after installation, english then deleted), import makes all values in this description column BLANK. They are gone.
BUT: When I delete v_products_name_2 column TOO, everything goes OK, nothing (as I hope) deleted.

Does anybody know WHY? Or how to repair it?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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I have searched the site for an answer to this but only found another that asked the same question and it was not answered.

I have installed Easy-Populate 1.2.5.5. easy-populate did not show up under admin-tools but was in admin-configuration. Ran the install from the browser address bar. got message stating installed successfully and created file in temp folder. I can bring up the easy populate page by entering the admin/easypopulate.php in my browser bar but should there not be a heading or listing in admin-tools for easy populate also? If so, any ideas since there are not any error messages showing?

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Marketeria2008

Hello all, new to the Zen Cart world.
Using Zen Cart v1.3.8a
new install of Zen Cart
I am using Easy populate v 1.2.5.4 for doing inventory updates.
Searched within the forum for info, but did not get any hits during the searches.
Can manual run the Easy Populate updates with no problems. However, when running
http://Mysite domain/shop/admin/easypopulate.php?localfile=Output.txt
the update only goes to the Easy Populate page for updating. Is not reading the ?localfile input. Any ideas?
Hoping to go live in the next few days.

I didn't see the support thread for EP CSV, hope I'm not too far off. This is for Easy Populate 1.2.5.5.csv ZC 1.3.8a

Are there any known issues with downloading large csv files?
When I try to download, or create a copy in /temp, I get an HTTP 500 error on both the Complete & Model/Attributes CSV

It's been running great previously, never had a problem before. But I'm wondering if we hit some type of filesize limit for downloading the csv. We've been adding new items.
We have around 10,000 items in Zen Cart.

The other download options, model/price/cat,etc work fine.
I just get the errors while trying to download the 'Complete' file, and also the 'Model/Attributes' file.

Thoughts? (Thanks in advance)....

Have you tried a "test" on both formats, using just a couple of products so that the file size is tiny?

Create appropriate EP files with just 3 or 4 products, then test it.

I have been using easy populate with good results for a couple of weeks. There is just one issue I can't solve.

I want all my items to have an active status all the time and be able to checkout zero quantity items. When I use easy populate to update the quantities of items they often have zero quantity, but I still want them to appear.

I set the v_status to 1 for easy populate yet zero quantity items are disabled. What can I do?

coolglobal:

I have been using easy populate with good results for a couple of weeks. There is just one issue I can't solve.

I want all my items to have an active status all the time and be able to checkout zero quantity items. When I use easy populate to update the quantities of items they often have zero quantity, but I still want them to appear.

I set the v_status to 1 for easy populate yet zero quantity items are disabled. What can I do?

This may work for you if I understand what you are trying to accomplish.

Try setting the quantity to 1 for everything and go to configuration/stock and change substract stock to "false". You would probably also want to set allow checkout to "true" as well as set the check stock level to "false". Everything will always be in stock until you actually disable it manually.

coolglobal:

I have been using easy populate with good results for a couple of weeks. There is just one issue I can't solve.

I want all my items to have an active status all the time and be able to checkout zero quantity items. When I use easy populate to update the quantities of items they often have zero quantity, but I still want them to appear.

I set the v_status to 1 for easy populate yet zero quantity items are disabled. What can I do?

The one thing that may be causing your problem is if you are using the model-price-qty ep upload. There is no way that I know of to keep the status set to active for 0 quantity products that way. If you were to use the full ep upload, you could edit out the fields that you don't need (be careful there)and change the status column from 0 (inactive) to 1 (active) with a global edit on that column. The zencart does not care if the qty is set to 0 as long as the other 3 options that I mentioned earlier are set correctly and the status is set to active.

Ok I tried the full ep upload with every v_status at 1 and the items of 0 quantity were disabled. :dontgetit

I do need items to have a quantity of 0 to enable my "back in stock notification" module. So cannot use the first option.

Strange, I would have thought that uploading a v_status of 1 would enable the product? Not so. Any more ideas are welcome.