Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

I have a lot, a LOT, of product links I need to create. They are coming from a variety of subcats and going to a variety of subcats. So I can't just duplicate a subcat or all the products within the subcat. I sure would like to find a way to do this without having to do them one at a time through the ZC products page. Can I create product links using EasyPopulate? If so, how much of the spreadsheet data would be required? (Is there documentation on this that I missed?)

Does eays populate only work with php v5?

pharry:

I have a lot, a LOT, of product links I need to create. They are coming from a variety of subcats and going to a variety of subcats. So I can't just duplicate a subcat or all the products within the subcat. I sure would like to find a way to do this without having to do them one at a time through the ZC products page. Can I create product links using EasyPopulate? If so, how much of the spreadsheet data would be required? (Is there documentation on this that I missed?)

This can be done. If you download the complete CSV file your will see v_categories_name_1 v_categories_name_2 v_categories_name_3 v_categories_name_4 etc. If you have multiple categories you type the main cat in v_categories_name_1 and your subs will be in v_categories_name_2, 3 etc. You'll need to create the categories before you upload the products. I just did this with over 900 products in dozens of sub categories without any issues.

Hi,

How can I get easy populate to include the MSRP field?
I am using the 'msrp_display_1-2 module' and have not changed in the files

any help is much appreciated...

LVT LTD

Does eays populate only work with php v5?
A : Yes

How can I get easy populate to include the MSRP field?
A : Search this thread for adding additional fields

I'm using EP 1.2.5.5.csv. I don't see another thread for it.

I need the id in the exported file to create the url for each product in a product feed for another site. Or else just an exported field for the url would work too. Neither is included.

I vaguely remember a pay version that included an id tag, but this mod appears to be abandoned, and I'm not into paying for it if I won't even get support (such as getting the download I paid for, to start with).

Is there another mod that will export data? Or has someone worked out the changes necessary to the code to create the id field in the export?

fakeDecoy What about the 'Google Base Feeder' would that do this for you?

Scrat, Google Base Feeder would work except that it only seems to export in XML format. I need something I can manipulate, like CSV or TXT.

fakeDecoy First of all I would use V1.2.5.4 as this is the most stable and then I would search this thread for how to add extra fields from the Database, as others have doc. the way to do this.

Scrat:

fakeDecoy First of all I would use V1.2.5.4 as this is the most stable and then I would search this thread for how to add extra fields from the Database, as others have doc. the way to do this.

Yikes... 245 pages in this thread. Any idea how long ago that was discussed?

fakeDecoy

A Great Tool at the top of each thread 'Search this Thread'

Adding an Extra Field

I need help....

When I try to download my complete .csv from the admin I get the error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /XXXXXXX/admin/includes/functions/general.php on line 38

Everything else can download fine.

Any Solutions? :frusty:

Kenichi
:frusty:

USE LANGER's version 1.2.5.4 (from Modhole) good and stable with one or two known bugs which you can live with (Search this thread) that don't give you any headaches.

You'll need to increase the memory in your public_html/php.ini file.

If you do not have a public_html/php.ini file, you should be able to create a new php.ini by going to the cPanel in your web hosting account -- PHP Config -- Install master php.ini. Then rename php.ini.default in public_html to php.ini (you can use cPanel -- File Manager).

Once you have a public_html/php.ini file, you can edit it. Find and update the memory_limit (usually 64M is sufficient, although up to 128M will work).

This worked well for me.

Kenichi:

I need help....

When I try to download my complete .csv from the admin I get the error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /XXXXXXX/admin/includes/functions/general.php on line 38

Everything else can download fine.

Any Solutions? :frusty:

Hi - hoping this thread may have a simple answer to this... Have installed EP and nothing updates. This is probably because I'm on a Mac. Install says "If you have an Apple/MAC, then uncomment the line in the "configuration variables" section in the easypopulate.php
file that is in the admin folder." WHICH LINE?

Sir Henry:

Hi - hoping this thread may have a simple answer to this... Have installed EP and nothing updates. This is probably because I'm on a Mac. Install says "If you have an Apple/MAC, then uncomment the line in the "configuration variables" section in the easypopulate.php
file that is in the admin folder." WHICH LINE?

I think you are looking at the CSV version 1.2.5.5 rather than version 1.2.5.4. See above notes about using version 1.2.5.4...
It is more stable.

Sir Henry First of all, make sure you have a product in your ZC manually as EP will not update ZC, secondly there seems to be issues with MAC's and .txt /.csv (tab) files, see below from an earlier post.

Scrat:

touchclothing What version of EP are you using ? I don't use a MAC so not the best to advise, but i am sure i have read it some where in this forum that MAC file formats cause problems with EP and tab separated files, hence the
Quote:uncomment the line in the "configuration variables"

OK Found this:

**Originally Posted by jimmysflyshop **
We are using Zen Cart 1.3.8 which I believe is the current program. We have been using Zen Cart for the last few months and have just recently launched our site. We have all the latest programs for Zen Cart. During the building process I was using a PC. I have just purchased an Macbook, and installed Microsoft Office so that I would be able to use Easy Populate with Zen Cart. Everything works okay except for one issue.

My issue is that when I download and update the .csv file and try to import it back to Zen Cart it is not properly updated. The new information that I have entered and saved on the .cvs file is not imported into Zen Cart. When I save the file to be imported I save it as a .csv file. I get a message that the import was successful but I don't receive any messages about the site being updated like I do on my PC.

Am I missing something here? I know I can't be the only one using an Apple to run Easy Populate. Any help would be appreciated. Hopefully I have given you enough information to help me, if not let me know.

**Originally Posted by rstevenson **
I'm on Mac (OS X v10.4.11) and I too use Excel and EZ Populate, but not often so my memory is a bit rusty on this. I recall that I had some sort of problem using the Excel-created file directly. Since I have a programmer's editor (the excellent BBEdit, see barebones.com) it was easy and quick to open the file in my editor, save it again and then upload it. I never trust MS products to do things simply, so I wouldn't expect the Excel file to be a plain text file. There'll be some junk in it somewhere, I'm sure.

Rob
and like elkbow says use 'version 1.2.5.4...'

Help!

I am using EP 1.2.5.4. And when i was trying to upload my data at first, it would just put the CSV file in the temp file and that was it, nothing else.

From reading the forums I saw that a Tab Delineated file was the best approach.

So i did that and it came back with all the lines I uploaded and some lines it updated......Great progress. Then when i go to my catalog the items don't show ?????? What gives, I am new to this so please help. Thanks. :frusty:

Montag_451:

Help!

I am using EP 1.2.5.4. And when i was trying to upload my data at first, it would just put the CSV file in the temp file and that was it, nothing else.

From reading the forums I saw that a Tab Delineated file was the best approach.

So i did that and it came back with all the lines I uploaded and some lines it updated......Great progress. Then when i go to my catalog the items don't show ?????? What gives, I am new to this so please help. Thanks. :frusty:

Eureka!!!! My frustration blinded me! I had blank data that diffed from the items i was updating. So EP ignored the new data. Sorry for my haste.

Thanks anyway.......

I downgraded from EP 1.2.5.5 to EP 1.2.5.4 as you recommended in order to try to get this to work.

So it turns out I don't need to add a new field. There's already one there.

v_products_url_1

This column is in the Complete file download, but it's empty for every row. Why is that? For any feed out there, I need to be able to give the product url.