Easy Populate New Questions Please Help

[greatdeals_007]

Hi

 

I had a couple of NEWBIE questions and hoping you can help with some Easy Populate questions:

 

SHORT DESCRIPTIONS

I hired someone to install EP and I can upload hundreds of products but still not able to update the short description field which is a key piece because that is what customer see when they navigate through the products. Has anyone figured out how to populate the short description yet?

 

PRODUCT IMAGES

we figured out the product images have to be in gif format. does anyone know if I can keep these pics in a zip file or do I need to upload individual pics to my site?

 

CLEANUP

as I update my inventory there are a lot of items with 0 qty. Those items appear as unavailable on my site. They appear as Inactive on the EP spreadsheet.

 

is there a way to easily delete those items from my site using EP?

 

any help would be appreciated

[♥geoffreywalton]

1. EP allows you to update product_name and product description.

 

v_products_model,v_products_name_1,v_products_description_1

 

If you have another field the documentation explains how to add it in.

 

2. You have to upload the images to your site, normally to the /images directory.

 

3. The contributions Database Checking Tool v1.2 or Clear Database could both easily be converted to set the product to inactive or delete it.

[greatdeals_007]

1. EP allows you to update product_name and product description.

 

v_products_model,v_products_name_1,v_products_description_1

 

If you have another field the documentation explains how to add it in.

 

2. You have to upload the images to your site, normally to the /images directory.

 

3. The contributions Database Checking Tool v1.2 or Clear Database could both easily be converted to set the product to inactive or delete it.

 

 

 

Thank you for the reply.

 

What documentation are you referring to for adding addtl fields?

also when I upload the images to the /images directory I am wondering if I can upload a single zip file or do I have to upload individual files?I have over 30,000 imaeges to upload of which I may only use 1500. I don't have a way to cross reference so I only upload the images that I am actually using. do you know if I upload a zip file if that will work even though the EP sheet refers to the individual file name?