SearchFit Shopping Cart v7.4 (Oct 01, 2007)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v7.4 (Oct 01, 2007)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW: the "Split Pages Navigator Type" property at Configure/PerUser/Generation has new "list of entity names" option, which tells the generation engine to use category/subcategory names when it generates navigation links for a particular category/subcategory that has been split into multiple pages

2. NEW: the new "Navigation Names" property per category and manufacturer can hold comma separated names that will be used to show navigation links if the generated page of the category and manufacturer is split into multiple pages

3. NEW: ability to copy product options from one product to another

4. NEW: ability to specify a product template to be different for the brief products pages than the template for the categories pages

5. NEW: the Configure/PerUser/SiteMaps.org settings give the ability SiteMaps.org xml files to be generated. Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site. SiteMaps.org has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. For more information go to http://www.sitemaps.org

6. NEW: the new "Create robots.txt CustomPage" at the Configure/PerUser/SiteMaps.org allows the store owner to create a default robots.txt CustomPage that will include the generated sitemaps.org xml file during the generation. Customers with manually created robots.txt files must be aware that creating this file via this setting will override manually created ones.

7. NEW: the new "SiteMap: include Brief Products" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to specify whether the links to the generated brief products are going to be included in the site maps or not

8. NEW: the "Priority" and "Change Frequency" per CustomPage allow the default settings of the "priority" and "change frequence" properties that are used in the sitemap.org xml files to be overridden

9. NEW: HTML sitemap enhancements:
a) generates smaller in size pages
b) include full navigation (Prev 1 2 3 ... Next)
c) include all split category pages
d) include tabbed product pages
e) include product images as links if specified by the "SiteMap: include Products Images" at Configure/PerUser/Generation

10. NEW: enhanced the dynamic search engine for the generated websites to return better and more accurate results to the visitors. Include the following properties in the search logic:
a) product name and description per user
b) category name and category name per user
c) manufacturer name

11. NEW: new keywords available for the detailed product template:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCTS_IN_CATEGORY: ads list of text links to all products in the same sub category or category. Increases link text frequency on detailed product pages.

12. NEW: new keywords available for the category content at above and below products:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_CATEGORIES_IN_CATEGORYTYPE: adds text links to all categories and subcategories within the same category type. Increases link text frequency on category and subcategory pages.

13. NEW: ability to specify the "Generation Type" per manufacturer per user. This setting overrides the setting on the Category Type.

14. NEW: ability to customize manufacturer page names for all users or per user

15. NEW: tiny images can be assigned to products in addition to thumbnail, small, big, and large images. The tiny image can be imported, exported, and used in templates.

16. NEW: the new "Show Product Image" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to specify what product image to show on the checkout pages. Possible selections are: None, Tiny, Thumbnal, Small, "Tiny or Thumbnal or Small", and "Small or Thumbnal or Tiny"

17. NEW: the menu template accepts new attribute "exclude-ids" for the "menu-categorytypes", "menu-categories", and "menu-subcategories" elements, so if given then it indicates which ids of categorytypes, categories, and subcategories are to be excluded from the generated menu

18. NEW: the dropdowns of products in the admin area now contain product numbers as well

19. NEW: helper files can be assigned to a specific user allowing only the assigned user's files to be transfered to the generated website when there are multiple users (websites)

20. NEW: the name of the "Credit Card" option that is shown as payment method on the 1st checkout page can be customized by changing the "Payment Name" of the selected CreditCard processor

21. NEW: alternate name can be entered for every categorytype, category, or subcategory, this name can be used in the templates when building customized menus

22. NEW: the website menu template supports the following additional keywords:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_CATEGORYTYPE_NAME_ALT: altername categorytype name
b) AUTO_GENERATED_CATEGORY_NAME_ALT: altername category name
c) AUTO_GENERATED_SUBCATEGORY_NAME_ALT: altername subcategory name

23. NEW: the category template supports the following additional keywords:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_CATEGORY_NAME_ALT: alternate name of the category (not a link)
b) AUTO_GENERATED_CATEGORY_NAME_ALT_ASLINK: alternate name of the category as a link to the category web page

24. NEW: ability to search orders by company name

25. NEW: the "printable version" of the orders accepts the following options:
a) Include Progress History
b) Include Internal Notes

26. NEW: ability to use new string function in the export orders and products templates to allow strings to be replaced. Refer to export orders example with name "Export AdditionalInfo field replacing all double quotes with single quotes"

27. NEW: new keywords available for the order export template:
a) ORDER_CUSTOM_FIELD_id: the value of a custom checkout field that has the specified id. Examples: ORDER_CUSTOM_FIELD_9, ORDER_CUSTOM_FIELD_28_found

28. NEW: new keywords available for the main templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_URL_CATEGORYTYPE_id: will be replaced with CategoryType url. Replace the id with id of CategoryType you want to generate the url for. Example: AUTO_GENERATED_URL_CATEGORYTYPE_3
b) AUTO_GENERATED_URL_CATEGORY_id: will be replaced with the Category url. Replace the id with id of Category you want to generate the url for. Example: AUTO_GENERATED_URL_CATEGORY_3
c) AUTO_GENERATED_URL_PRODUCT_id: will be replaced with the Product url. Replace the id with id of Product you want to generate the url for. Example: AUTO_GENERATED_URL_PRODUCT_3

29. NEW: the new "Show PO Number" property at Configure/PerUser allows a purchase order number field to be shown/hidden on the checkout pages. Ability to export the purchase order together with the other properties of the order. Ability to search orders by PO number.

30. NEW: the new coupons' "Max Quantity to Apply" property allows the store owner to specify the max quantity of the products in the cart that the non-percentage discount will be applied to

31. NEW: additional special keywords that can be used in the AUTO_GENERATED_HEADER section of the products:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_NUMBER_ONLY - will be replaced with the product's number
b) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_NAME - will be replaced with the category name of the product

32. NEW: selecting a related product makes its price accumulated to the price of the main product on the generated pages

33. CHANGE: the "search order by customer name" feature considers the billing as well as shipping customer names

34. CHANGE: the integration with google checkout now works with carts with php5 installations

35. CHANGE: if the "Additional Info" textarea on the 2nd checkout page is left empty then it is not defaulted to "none" anymore

36. CHANGE: improved the "Tell a Friend" feature to reject requests that are in HTML to help lower SPAM usages

37. CHANGE: the keyword AUTO_GENERATED_TOOL_MANUFACTURERS shows a dropdown with all active manufacturers. If a manufacturer does not have assigned URL then the choose of an item will redirect the visitor to the generated manufacturer page.

38. FIX: for international shipping methods, the google checkout orders were restricted to shipment in the USA only

39. FIX: there was an error for the [details] function on the multi-user generate page

40. FIX: there was a problem with the "Update Metatags" categorytypes group feature

41. FIX: if product has active options that are required and if the options are not shown on the generated brief page then clicking on the "add to cart" or "buy now" buttons were having problems for customized product template with AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_URL_ADD2CART keywords

42. FIX: AUTO_GENERATED_MENU_CATEGORYTYPE_ID was not working for category type that generates pages by manufacturers when all products were of type links

43. FIX: if product has active options that are required and if the options are not shown on the generated brief page then clicking on the "add to cart" or "buy now" buttons will redirect the buyer to the detailed product page, where the options are shown. This behaviour was not working for products of type links.

44. FIX: creating a new user was adding new default.htm, sitemap.htm, and missing.htm custom pages to the currently logged user
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Stanley Stanev
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