Easy Populate problems

[JoshR35]

I've searched all over the forum and cant find a post about this.

 

When I use easy populate to add products to my store, everything works fine unless I try to upload a csv that contains the products descriptions included. It then adds about half of the products in the top category with the prices messed up.

 

I double checked to make sure everything was in the right column as well and that didn't help either.

 

Has anyone else had this problem?

 

Thanks in advance !!

 

Josh R.

[♥geoffreywalton]

Have you got any commas in the descriptions anywhere?

[JoshR35]

Have you got any commas in the descriptions anywhere?

 

 

No, just lots of HTML code is all.

 

The only way I finally got it to work was to populate everything besides the descriptions, then, download the EP descriptions csv, add the data then re-upload.

Takes a while longer but atleast it works.

[♥geoffreywalton]

Did you follow the installation instructions?

 

6. PLEASE DO THIS!!!!!: Go to easypopulate.php and read the section marked

"Configuration Variables". It will allow you to adjust EP's operation

for your store. I meant what I said, Please, Pretty please, do read the

entire configuration stuff. Really. You'll be glad you did since if you

don't and come to the support thread asking question the docs answer, you

may simply get asked to read the docs anyway. You'll find all kinds of

neat configurable stuff there.

 

7. The following is not required to run this contribution. This may help many

with large databases. It was submitted by UGLi 6 May 2006. It is a SQL

command you run in your SQL tool provided by your host, such as phpMyAdmin.

Copy and paste the following line in your SQL command tool:

 

ALTER TABLE `products` ADD INDEX `idx_products_model` ( `products_model` );

 

 

I meant what I said, Please, Pretty please, do read the entire configuration stuff.

Really. You'll be glad you did. You'll find all kinds of neat configurable stuff

there. The instructions for using the various image mods and other supported

contribtion variables are in there.

 

You might have found this and saved yourself a load of time.

 

If you have extensive html in your descriptions and it's getting mangled on upload,

 

Love to be proved wrong though

Edited May 2, 2008 by geoffreywalton