SearchFit Shopping Cart v5.5 (Sep 12, 2005)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v5.5 (Sep 12, 2005)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW FEATURE: the product's "ships in own box" feature has been extended, so the store owner may specify what quantity of the product go to it's own box

2. NEW FEATURE: new CSS item can be used in the SCART/CSS:
a) navigator_products_link_selected: the style of the selected navigation link of the products (example: 1-10 11-20 21-30)

3. NEW FEATURE: new keywords available for the export orders templates:
a) ORDER_ITEM_PRICE_NODISCOUNTS - will be replaced with the price of the product with no discounts applied (original price)
b) ORDER_ITEM_DESCR_BRIEF - item's brief description
c) ORDER_ITEM_DESCR_BRIEF_1 - item's additional brief description
d) ORDER_ITEM_DESCR_DETAIL - item's detail description
e) ORDER_ITEM_DESCR_DETAIL_1 - item's additional detail description

4. NEW FEATURE: there is a new function available for the export orders template that helps limit ANY generated string to X characters. Examples:
<string length="12">ORDER_SHIPPING_FIRSTNAME ORDER_SHIPPING_LASTNAME</string>
<string length="30">this text will have only 30 characters</string>

5. NEW FEATURE: if the value of the importing product option contains <default/> then it will be created and marked as default one

6. NEW FEATURE: added new options to the "configuration per user":
a) Sales Tax Based On: allows the store owner to select whether the calculation of the sales tax is based on the shipping or billing address

7. NEW FEATURE: the report "products sold" includes the options sold as well

8. NEW FEATURE: information about the posted "tell a friend" messages are sent to the store owner as well

9. NEW FEATURE: the custom menus could be configured to be generated with customized webpage names

10. NEW FEATURE: new keywords can be used in the products' templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_LINK_PRINTABLE_VIEW: will be replaced with the "Printable View" link

11. NEW FEATURE: new tags available for the SCART top and bottom templates:
a) <scart_area_notcheckout> and </scart_area_notcheckout> - the content between these tags will be shown on all dynamic pages, but the checkout ones

12. NEW FEATURE: new keywords available for the "Thanks Page":
a) SCART_ORDER_AMOUNT_SUBTOTAL - will be replaced with the subtotal amount of the order (in selected currency)
b) SCART_ORDER_AMOUNT_SUBTOTAL_USDOLLAR - will be replaced with the subtotal amount of the order (in us dollars)

13. NEW FEATURE: added a search form on the "Custom Web Links and Pages" page

14. NEW FEATURE: there is a new keyword ORDER_STORE_USERNAME available for the export orders template that will be replaced with the username of the user the order belongs to

15. NEW FEATURE: the MISC/FilesRepos function allows the uploaded files to be organized in different folders and subfolders

16. NEW FEATURE: new keywords can be used in the main templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_TOOL_CATEGTYPE: will be replaced with a dropdown navigator that has category types only

17. NEW FFEATURE: new keywords can be used in the product templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_NAME: will be replaced with the name of the category the product belongs to

18. NEW FEATURE: the search mode of the products allows a search by product type as well (show products with type of regular, separator, or link)

19. NEW FEATURE: added new report by orders, which shows how many times each custom field has been selected that can be filtered by date ranges

20. NEW FEATURE: the store owner is able to mark group of product options as required. The products cannot be placed in the cart until the required group of options are selected. In order to enable the "required" check the configuration per user should have "Products: verify if ready to order" as "Yes".

21. CHANGE: the old keyword ORDER_ITEM_PRICE used in the export orders template has the applied discounts (if any) as well

22. CHANGE: the value of COMMENT2 property of verisign payflo pro credit card processor is in the format "firstname lastname; order posted by SearchFit"

23. CHANGE: the names of the product options could be 150 characters long

24. CHANGE: increased the length of the Foreign IDs to 80 characters

25. CHANGE: more accurate calculation of the S&H fees for USPS priority from US to other countries

26. CHANGE: the username of the user (store owner) the order belongs to is sent to PlugNPay as "acct_code" field, which helps to identify which transactions were from which of the store owner's websites

27. BUG FIXED: if the inventory is enabled the products and options with the same SKUs have to be all linked together, an inventory change of a SKU must change ALL products and options with the same SKU in the store

28. BUG FIXED: there was a problem updating the product's descriptions that contain apostrophe character on some servers

29. BUG FIXED: the message "An email with details has been sent to..." on the the last checkout page did not show the email address

30. BUG FIXED: there was a problem when editing a tax by state record

31. BUG FIXED: the products of type link were not showing related products
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com