Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

scart:
it seems that i didnot go into configuration of easypopulate. once i did that it is working fine. Thanks for help

hello all,

i have been using google "site:https://www.zen-cart.com/forum stuff i want found"
and it had worked well until now..

i have installed easy populate and found it helpful - but now i would like to remove all products or rather rename models and products and generally clean up my products.

problem is when ever i change the model, the easy populate add a new product.

note: at first i thought it would use excels row numbering as a primary key to make sure no duplicate records exist, but i dont think that works.

so now i have lots of half arsed products in one of my categories. what would be manageable way of correcting my catalog of products ?

thank you.

omen - download a Download Complete tab-delimited .txt and change the second to last field v_status from 1 to 9 and that will delete that product from the database - see the readme file in EP zip file.

Can u tell me how u resolved your easy populate problem ?

Scrat:

omen - download a Download Complete tab-delimited .txt and change the second to last field v_status from 1 to 9 and that will delete that product from the database - see the readme file in EP zip file.

thank you - that worked perfectly :)

there are so many un-documented zencart scripts that i forgot to check the readme.

by no means is easypopulate a perfect solution for product/stock management, but its the best thing we have so far.

oavs:

Anguz > thanks for sticking with me on this one. Its now working.

I'm really glad. You're welcome.

Regarding my other post on having trouble witn the categories pagination, it wasn't EasyPopulate, just in case someone was wondering.

kburner : Enter one product in a cat. via ZC and then download that file via complete download, edit/add products to that file and reload. EP will only work if there are product already in the database. OO and Office will only work with I think 255 columns which you can use up very quickly with EP, so you may need to use a different text editor.

I must have missed this in the directions. I load the product first via admin/catagories with model # and ?. After that I can load .txt file with all other information? I am using access database. It has all file information. I have to change all the category names and delete a lot of attributes as I save it to a different file name as a .txt file also.

Hi, can I make the minimum order quantity by EP module?
I have thousands of products feeded by EP and can't find how to make this minimum quantity for them!

I wish someone has got a solution for it. Tried to look also advanced EP but this 1.2.5.4 still looks otherwise best for me.

Elli

hi,

i have a site located in this way:
public_html/o-bean.com (o-bean.com is where my zen cart is)

i've unzipped ep and renamed 'admin' to 'ep_admin' and 'temp' to 'ep_upload'

may i know where i sld upload the files to? and how about the others lik history, install sql, read me... etc?

**ellivir **- Sorry EP will not do this but I would have thought that you could write a sql script to do this easily ?

francesca_ph - You haven't put EP in the right folders ! as with any addon module the folders are set out like ZC's format so just drop the files in the same folders as your ZC format. You cannot rename these folders to your liking.:no:
So if mod. folder is named admin put those files in ZC's admin folder, or if they are in includes put then in ZC's includes.
'/public_html/' is your 'www' folder which everyone see on the internet.

Hi Scrat,

under public_html/o-bean.com/admin, i also have the folder name 'include'

and inside both 'inculdes' folder, i have functions, languages, datafiles and boxes as folders....

what can i do? i can't just replace them like that, right?

and I also have a 'temp' folder in EP, but i have no 'temp' folder under obean.com/

Scrat:

**ellivir **- Sorry EP will not do this but I would have thought that you could write a sql script to do this easily ?

Ou, that would be nice but I do not know exactly how and the minimum quantities are not applied for all the products, neither the same quantities for those that it is applied to!

Elli

**francesca_ph ** : You don't seem to have grasped how Zencart and add-ons folders work.

You will of cause be the same, as the folder structure are the same, because the author is showing which folder the files are put...

Under the Mod's folder - Admin you have file easypopulate.php

So you put this in the Admin folder of your ZC, then in admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/easypopulate_tools_dhtml.php you would that file in public_html/o-bean.com/admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/easypopulate_tools_dhtml.php

etc etc etc...

ellivir - Have a read up on sql its pretty straight forward mysql tutorial I am sure if you cannot program you should be-able to do this in excel again with some research.

Scrat:

**francesca_ph ** : You don't seem to have grasped how Zencart and add-ons folders work.

You will of cause be the same, as the folder structure are the same, because the author is showing which folder the files are put...

Under the Mod's folder - Admin you have file easypopulate.php

So you put this in the Admin folder of your ZC, then in admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/easypopulate_tools_dhtml.php you would that file in public_html/o-bean.com/admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/easypopulate_tools_dhtml.php

etc etc etc...
.

sorry, but i really do not know how to go about it.

so how about those folders or files which have the same name? should i 'combine' them or 'replace' them?

as for the 'temp' folder, where should i put it as i do not have a temp folder under o-bean.com/

oh my!!!
i did it!!!

greatpriceshopping:

Sorry as to not much detail. I probably have this all wrong but what I am doing is taking the data files from my supplier (who says there files are ready to work on zencart) and using the easy populate function I try and add it to the database. It says it was successfull, but nothing shows up. If any more detail is needed let me know, I appreaciate all of your help and for having this project around. I did dontae and will continue to do so when I can. I hope my post does not come off as rude or anything, as that is not my intention.

Thanks!

Have you fix the problem yet? i"m getting the same thing. Says " uploaded successfully" but nothing shows up. I'm using Easy populate advanced. Unable to get any help from anybody so far. It is frustrating...:wacko:

hi,

i guess i'm also getting the same thing

n when i upload a new file, it says at the top, cannot find easypopulate on line XXXX cannot rem the exact ones...

n also, after uploading, how do i make it shown on the site?

The error message i get:

Warning: file(/home/musicalv/public_html/o-bean.com/temp/temp/) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/musicalv/public_html/o-bean.com/admin/easypopulate.php on line 1223

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/musicalv/public_html/o-bean.com/admin/easypopulate.php on line 1301

Hello all,

I used to be able to update my database via the admin easy populate tool. However, changes at my host - coupled with the size of the file - have made me switch to updates via SSH (which I have yet to do successfully).

I am getting the following message when trying to upload a file:

ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\ '.

The structure of the file is as follows (note the "|" symbol has been added to this post to delineate fields):

v_products_model | v_products_image | EOREOR

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, Newbie Linda