EP Problem in 2.5 - Any Ideas??

[cindyt2009]

Thanks for the heads-up....it seems that EP is good for basic importing and updating but does not handle additional items like attributes, add'l images and extra fields with any degree of usefulness. Does save a little time for the basics.... : )
C

[ridexbuilder]

See a recent post in the 'Max 1.7 section (I know!) - EP handles attributes well enough, in my experience, when used with version 'i' and OpenOffice.


Additional images are not required, when using Dynamic MoPics - hence inappropriate for 'Max.

EJ

[dare197]

I see this thread is almost a year old, but I'm a new user/learner with osCMax and just today learned the difference in EPF and PEF (thanks EJ for the quick lesson).

I'm using extra fields in my listings and can't see to figure out anyway to export/import them using Easy Populate or another method.

Any suggestions on where to look/read or what to do?

Thanks for everyone that has been part of this project!

[dare197]

just deleting dup post... not sure how I did that.

[dalogar]

The easiest way is to replace line 301 of easypopulate:

$custom_fields[TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION] = array('tab1' => 'tab1', 'tab1' => 'tab1', 'tab2' => 'tab2', 'tab3' => 'tab3', 'tab4' => 'tab4', 'tab5' => 'tab5', 'tab6' => 'tab6'); // this line is used if you have no custom fields to import/export

with this one:

$custom_fields[TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION] = array('tab1' => 'tab1', 'tab1' => 'tab1', 'tab2' => 'tab2', 'tab3' => 'tab3', 'tab4' => 'tab4', 'tab5' => 'tab5', 'tab6' => 'tab6', 'extra_value_id1' => 'epf1'); // this line is used if you have no custom fields to import/export

This way you will have new fields in the csv file v_extra_value_id1_1, v_extra_value_id1_2 and v_extra_value_id1_3, in which you will have to enter the number of the extra_value_id (you can look into the DB). If you want more extra fields, you can add them to the line like 'extra_value_id2' => 'epf2' and so on...