SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.6 (Aug 10, 2009)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v8.6 (Aug 10, 2009), Changes and New Features:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. NEW: new settings available at Products/ConfigureProducts/Images that allow to automatically create and resize product's big, small, thumbnail, and tiny regular images by uploading/importing just a single large image

2. NEW: ability to choose what product image to be included in the PowerSearch feed

3. NEW: SearchFit now automatically provides PowerSearch with orders data to allow PowerSearch to build sales reports based on the searches and placed orders

4. NEW: implemented "Daily Sales By Searches" chart for SearchFit customers that use PowerSearch

5. NEW: there is now an indication on the manufacturers screen about how many products are assigned for every manufacturer

6. NEW: the ORDER_CHECK_STATUS_LINK and ORDER_EPRODUCT_DOWNLOAD_LINK keywords for the order confirmation email templates are enhanced to include the actual order number and email as URL attributes. When the customers click on the links in the email they are forwarded to the corresponding order pages where the verification order number and email fields are auto populated for their convenience.

7. NEW: the product groups feature has been enhanced to allow the store owner to create unlimited Intelligent Product Groups. Intelligent groups are dynamic groups where the selected group type specifies what products are to be included in the group. The intelligent groups can be created for all or specific category types and for all or specific categories. Store owners can specify discounts, create social apps,and generate individual intelligent groups. The supported intelligent product group types are:
a) Best Selling Products By Qty
b) Best Selling Products By Revenue
c) Best Selling Products By Profit
d) Most Recent Products (New Arrivals)
e) Top Ranked Products
f) Most Ranked Products

8. NEW: the new Marketing/RSSFeeds feature allows the store owner to create unlimited RSS Feeds using any intelligent product group. New keywords available for the Main template:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_RSSFEEDS_LIST - will be replaced with a statically generated <div id="rssFeedsListContainer"><ul id="rssFeedsList">...</ul></div> list of the available RSS Feeds links at the time of generation

9. NEW: AUTO_GENERATED_INCLUDE_id could be used in the product option group names. When the product is added to the cart, the AUTO_GENERATED_INCLUDE_id section will be stripped from the option group name.

10. NEW: enhanced the UPS real time shipping fee estimation engine to handle UPS Shipper Numbers. UPS Shipper Numbers are used to request Negotiated Rates from UPS. The negotiated rates are only returned for qualified Shipper Account Numbers and eligibility is determined using the combination of UserId and the Shipper's Shipper Account Number.

11. NEW: for the Product Filters feature, ability to specify the "Show Filters Mode" at Products/ConfigureProducts/Filters with the following options:
a) Show All Filter Names and Values - default choice
b) Load All Filter Names and Values On Demand - helps big stores with a huge number of visitors to lower the unnecessary database product filters activities hence serve bigger number of users at the same time
c) Show All Filter Names, Show Values On Mouse Click

12. NEW: ability to import unlimited product options

13. NEW: ability to import product option images

14. NEW: ability to import product extra images for photo albums and galleries in "Replace All" or "Add" mode

15. NEW: changed Payflow Pro integration to use the Payflow HTTPS interface and to support the latest PayPal changes about their new service endpoints. For more information go to https://www.paypal.com/gatewayupdate

16. NEW: new product photo album types:
a) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PHOTO_ALBUM) - default dynamic include photo album that shows a "Show More Images" link. When users click on it then a dynamic panel appears with a way to browse through all extra thumbnails, extra small images, and extra large images. This album view is perfect for the brief product pages.
b) <img id="generatedImgForProductAUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_ID" src="AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_IMAGE_URL" alt="AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_NAME_ONLY" title="AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_NAME_ONLY" border="0">DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PHOTO_ALBUM, albumType=smallAndThumbnailsView, targetImgId=generatedImgForProductAUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_ID) - dynamic include photo albumType=smallAndThumbnailsView with statically generated image to help SEO
c) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PHOTO_ALBUM, albumType=smallAndThumbnailsView) - dynamic include photo albumType=smallAndThumbnailsView
d) DYNAMIC_INCLUDE(PRODUCT_PHOTO_ALBUM, albumType=thumbnailsView) - dynamic include photo albumType=thumbnailsView
For examples of how these product photo album types work, just go to
a) http://www.searchfit.us/devcart/public/generated/user2/2002_oz_american_eagle_gold_2_prd1.htm
b) http://www.searchfit.us/devcart/public/generated/user2/2002_1_oz_american_eagle_1_prd1.htm

17. NEW: for standard search forms that use keywords to auto generate the category options to search by, the category dropdown is always defaulted to the category type or category of the landed page. Now, a new hidden field could be used to always default the selected option of the category dropdown no matter on what page it is shown. This way the store owner could specify that the search is going to be performed globally from every page if the visitor does not choose the desired category:
*) <input type="hidden" name="searchby_category_defaultIndex" value="0">

18. CHANGE: Product Filters. A filter value will be shown ONLY if there are targeted products for it. This means that the store owner can share filters between category types and the engine will not show a filter value for the category type if there are no products the filter to be applied for while it will appear automatically under the other category type where there are appropriate products.

19. CHANGE: on the "Add to Cart" popup window, instead of the link: "Close This Window", there are now 2 links: "Continue Shopping" and "Check Out Now"

20. CHANGE: if the product's "To Order" property at the Misc tab is "Disable" then the product will not be included in the product feeds to Google, Yahoo, Shopzilla, etc.

21. CHANGE: show "Image X of Y" message on the default product photo album panel

22. CHANGE: upgraded to the latest YUI v2.7.0

23. CHANGE: for PayPal orders, the description sent to PayPal is in the format: "MyStoreName (OrderNum: XXX)". It will be included in the PayPal confirmation emails, so it is easier to link to the SearchFit order number.

24. CHANGE: for USPS, if the order's weight is greater than the specified by the store owner maxWeight per package then the shipping estimation takes the more expensive estimated USPS fee assuming an oversize

25. CHANGE: the feed that SearchFit prepares for PowerSearch now supports products that use common includes in the descriptions

26. CHANGE: the SEO engine replaces consecutive _ and - characters in the page names with the single "Pagename Words Delimiter" that is configured at SEO General Settings

27. FIX: product photo album now works for products of type links as well

28. FIX: when importing multiple products with options, the special "<none/>" value for the "Extra Option Item for all Options" setting was not working properly hence an extra "Select" option was created regardless

29. FIX: successful PayPal IPN notifications that finalize orders were causing the engine to always use the default confirmation template even if the store owner has configured a custom one

30. FIX: Google analytics, checkout page now correctly shows the cross domain configurations

31. FIX: the single order export function was changing the order status to "NEW"

32. FIX: imports that were updating products by SKU were making foreign ids empty

33. FIX: filter values and category names now accept " (double quotes) characters

34. FIX: successful PayPal IPN notifications that finalize orders were causing the engine to always use the default confirmation dropshipping template even if the store owner has configured a custom one for the vendor

35. FIX: manually changing the manufacturer of a regular product was not propagating the change to all associated product links

36. FIX: the footer message "Store Name........" included in the emails sent the store owners when processing google base feed for multiple stores was incorrect

37. FIX: resolved an issues with custom CSS styles from the CSS storage that were applied to specific categories

38. FIX: the underscore was not considered a word delimiter when constructing web page names with a specified "max words" SEO configuration

39. FIX: when using the duplicate product function, the extra images were carried to the new product using the exact same names, so when they were deleted from the duplicated product then they disappeared from the original as well
_________________
Stanley Stanev
SearchFit Architect
www.searchfit.com
www.searchfit.us.com
www.stanev.com
www.yordanova.com