SearchFit Shopping Cart v4.18 (Mar 29, 2004)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v4.18 (Mar 29, 2004)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW FEATURE: ORDER_FAX and ORDER_SHIPPING_COMPANY can be used in the export orders template to export the company and the fax of the buyer.

2. NEW FEATURE: the following keywords can be used in the product's metatags section: AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_NAME and AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_PRICE_FINAL. These keywords will be replaced with the corresponding name and final price for the corresponding user during the generation of the pages. Some customers would like to include the price in the title of the product's page that is generated and they want that to happen automatically, so if they change the price, they do not have to change the meta tags section.

3. BUG FIX: the label of the category's dropdown field for the dynamic search by keywords+category was missing

4. CHANGE: the link "Recalculate" on the 1st checkout page is changed to "Click here to Recalculate the Grand Total"

5. NEW FEATURE: if something is changed (like qty, S&H method, etc.) on the first checkout page then a marker that reminds the buyer to recalculate is shown.

6. NEW FEATURE: SCART/TemplTop and SCART/TemplBottom support more customized tags that enable different text (or HTML) to be shown on different pages. See the help of those templates for more info.

7. NEW FEATURE: (Agreed Terms & Conditions). Added a new option to the configuration per user, which allows the user of SearchFit to select whether or not the Terms & Conditions are agreed by default on the checkout pages.

8. NEW FEATURE: the product's USER_PRICE_DIFF now can be a percent as well as an amount. The same is true for the product's options USER_PRICE_DIFF. USER_PRICE_DIFF is the product's user price difference for a particular user and that's the price, which increases/decreases the final product price.

9. CHANGE: the dynamic search function (db search) will not include the products of type "link to another product" in the result.

10. NEW FEATURE: the product's options have new property that enables them to be configured as "default". The option with status "default" will be selected by default for the customers.

11. NEW FEATURE: the product's "User Price Diff" now can be imported together with all other properties

12. NEW FEATURE: SearchFit now generates a separate page for every CategoryType using the CategoryType's metatags and content. The name of the CategoryType in the path "categorytype > category > subcategory" becomes a link to the generated CategoryType page.

13. NEW FEATURE: the configuration per user "CategoryType Menu" accepts new option "Dynamic (expand on another page)", which enables shrinked CategoryTypes, but when the customer click on a CategoryType it will expand on another page. The old option "Dynamic (expand on same page)" expands the CategoryType also, but it happens on the same page using JavaScript.

14. NEW FEATURE: special keywords can be used in the ThanksPage that will be replaced with the corresponding values of the placed order (see the help of the ThanksPage)

15. NEW FEATURE: added a new action "Only Link (Popup)" for the Custom Web Links, which will open the custom link in a new window (popup) when the customer clicks on it.

16. NEW FEATURE: added 2 more options for the "CategoryType Menu" in the configuration per user. Currently available options:
a) Standard (always expanded): the CategoryType menu will be always expanded. This is the default configuration.
b) Standard (always expanded + categorytype as link): the CategoryType menu will be always expanded and the CategoryType will be a link to the new generated CategoryTypes pages. This is a new option.
c) Dynamic (expand on same page): the CategoryType will be shrinked and will be expanded if the customer clicks on a CategoryType link. The menu will expand on the same page using JavaScript.
d) Dynamic (expand on another page): the CategoryType will be shrinked and will be expanded if the customer clicks on a CategoryType link. The menu will expand on a new page that is generated for the CategoryType. This is a new option, which helps smaller pages to be generated in case the store has many CategoryTypes with a lot of Categories.

17. NEW FEATURE: the product's number (sku) can now be exported together with the other properties of an order. For the purpose, the new keyword ORDER_ITEM_NUMBER can be included in the export orders template (see the help of the template).

18. CHANGE: changed the internal code of the "FULL ACCESS", which requires the ChiefAdmins of the shopping cart to redo the permissions of their sub users in case they use this function and have granted full access to functions to their users.

19. NEW FEATURE: added a new permission for the products: PRICES ONLY, which enables the ChiefAdmin to give an access to another user to be able to change the prices of the products only and no other product's properties.

20. CHANGE: all new records of CategoryTypes, Categories, and Products will have a granted access to users with role "USER". If the selected user that creates the new record has "lower" role then the record will have the default role of the user's role.

21. NEW FEATURE: (Forward Cart to URL). Added a new option to the configuration per user, which allows the user of SearchFit to forward all orders to an external logic (see the help). The logic will take care of the ordering, so SearchFit will not be responsible to place the orders anymore. This is a customized function that requires an advanced knowledge and it is developed for a specific customer, so if interested, please use with caution.

22. BUG FIXED: there was a problem when trying to import products that have options. It was giving an error message like: "...expecting 15 fields, but found 14..."

23. NEW FEATURE: the orders' function that resends receipt emails now accepts a template. Use this function to resend lost receipt emails or send new ones having the change of the status and/or the progress history included (using different email templates)

24. NEW FEATURE: added a new status of orders "Approved". In request of customers that have drug stores, They give access to ServiceUsers (doctors) to login and approve orders based on the answers given by the buyers (or by calling them directly). In this case only the approved orders can be processed. It is up to the SearchFit's users whether they will use this status or not.

25. NEW FEATURE: (ChiefAdmins only) added new functions that enable the metatags (title, keywords, description) of the products and categories to be updated with default values using specified rules.

26. BUG FIXED: there was a problem when calculating the "S&H by weight" for a product of type link that has options.

27. BUG FIXED: the check for the MAX allowed products in the store was counting the ProductLinks also. Only the products that are not of type links should be counted.
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com