SearchFit Shopping Cart v7.5 (Oct 22, 2007)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v7.5 (Oct 22, 2007)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW: the checkout process invokes the available custom external shipping scripts to request if they need the shipping destination to calculate the fees. If they do not need that information then the shipping country, state, and zip are not shown on the 1st checkout page. For the purpose, any external shipping script must be changed to support this feature. For example of such script just go to Handling/FeesDetails, select your external shipping method and read the help.

2. NEW: the 1st checkout page has new layout for the available payment methods that makes them easier to see and select. The google checkout implementation on the 1st checkout page now follows the google's rules, so google should give promised credits to those that are using google checkout.

3. NEW: ability to specify search terms and generate static pages per search term. Links to generated search term pages are automatically included in the sitemaps. There is a new keyword for the main templates that is replaced by a list of links to the search term pages. Ability to change the priority and frequency properties of these pages for the sitemaps.org xml files.

4. NEW: the new "Show Product Image" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to specify what product image to show on the admin pages when reviewing orders. The default setting is "[None]".

5. NEW: group function that updates all page names of manufacturers

6. NEW: the new category's "Products Per Page" property allows the default max products per page setting to be overridden per category

7. NEW: the new "Manufacturer: include Product Links" property at Configure/PerUser/Generation allows products of type links to be included under generated "shop by brand" category types

8. NEW: the new "Product Image width/height" at Configure/PerUser/Orders allows customized width/height to be specified for the product images that are shown on the checkout pages

9. NEW: if manufacturer page is customized then the generation will use it as a prefix of the webpage name of the category pages that are under the manufacturer

10. NEW: the "SiteMap: include Products Images" property at Configure/PerUser/Generation has new choices:
a) No
b) XML Sitemap Only
b) HTML Sitemap Only
b) All Sitemaps

11. NEW: enable "Show All Products" per categorytype or category. For more information refer to the categorytype help or category's template help.

12. NEW: new keywords available for the product templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_DESCR_BRIEF_1: will be replaced with the 1st additional brief description of the product
b) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_DESCR_BRIEF_2: will be replaced with the 2nd additional brief description of the product
c) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_DESCR_DETAILED_1: will be replaced with the 1st additional detail description of the product
d) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_DESCR_DETAILED_2: will be replaced with the 2nd additional detail description of the product
e) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_LINK: will be replaced with the link to the category page of the product

13. NEW: ability to search orders by "foreign id". Foreign id is an id of the order in another checkout system. For example, for google checkout, all placed orders will have the foreign id to be the id of the google checkout order.

14. NEW: the new choice "Controlled via CSS" for the "Products per row" property of the product templates allows the default product separator to be disabled and the number of the products per row to be controlled via CSS

15. NEW: the helper files can be marked to not be copied to the target website. This is useful when creating some temporary folders or uploading files that will be used only from dynamic pages.

16. NEW: there are now two ways to import the content of the navigation tabs for products:
a) all tabs in one column separated by the chosen column separator
b) one tab per column having <col-navbar-tab/> in every tab

17. NEW: ability to import product header in addition to title and meta description and keywords

18. NEW: the new "Manage all Helper Files" at Configure/PerUser/Store allows the store owner to select which admin to handle all helper files for all users

19. CHANGE: mysql stopwords are not considered for search results

20. CHANGE: the "SiteMap: include Products Images" property at Configure/PerUser/Generation is defaulted to "[None]"

21. CHANGE: google checkout server has changed from https://checkout.google.com/cws/v2/Merchant/ to https://checkout.google.com/api/checkout/v2/

22. CHANGE: the "Synchronize with FileSystem" function of the HelperFiles removes any records that do not exist on the file system

23. CHANGE: if no keywords are used in product templates that allow the customer to add to cart or wishlist then no html form and hidden input fields are generated, which makes webpages where those products are shown to become smaller

24. FIX: if a product is deactivated/activated anywhere in the cart (such as by deactivating/activating its parent category type, category, subcategory or the product itself), and that product is listed in a product group, then it is excluded/included from/to the product group.

25. FIX: updating categories via the customized import was updating the categories with value of "0" to the "Navigation Names" property

26. FIX: the xml was not ending properly for multiple xml files sitemap generation
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Stanley Stanev
SearchFit Architect
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