SearchFit Shopping Cart v7.0 (Feb 26, 2007)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v7.0 (Feb 26, 2007)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW: implemented security enhancements, stronger encryption, encrypting additional data

2. NEW: ability to generate partially the web sites by specifying the category type and category of the pages to be generated.

3. NEW: ability to generate style sheets (CSS) only

4. NEW: ability to transfer only modified product images to the remote FTP server. On the generation page, show the latest date when a product image has been added/modified.

5. NEW: ability to specify categorytypes, categories, and products web page names to be non-fully (with extra suffixes) or fully (no extra suffixes) customized. Just prefix the customized page name with "=" to have the fully customized page name in effect. The non-fully customized page names have the advantage to allow the system to append suffixes to make sure the page names are unique throughout the entire web site. Examples: if the page name is specified as "=interactive_phone_module" then the generated page name will be "interactive_phone_module.html" and if the specified one is "interactive_phone_module" then the generated will be "interactive_phone_module_123_prd1.htm", assuming the id of the product is 123. This feature allows non-SearchFit customers to switch to SearchFit and keep their web page names the way they had them before.

6. NEW: ability to indicate the most common shipping address of the customers to be "Residential Address" for the UPS shipping method

7. NEW: new web service "export orders" available for 3rd party developers

8. NEW: ability to buy again the items customers have bought in the past while they are reviewing their old orders. The items are added to the cart using their current prices.

9. NEW: ability to show product properties (0-9) on the checkout pages. Use <checkout_indicator/> element to mark a property as to be shown.

10. NEW: support google checkout as an additional payment method. Merchants can instruct Google Checkout to automatically charge orders as soon as they become chargeable via the Google Checkout's Settings/Preferences. For authorized only orders, ability to charge them from SearchFit with a click of a button.

11. NEW: ability to modify the "charged total" of an order

12. NEW: new keywords available for the export products templates:
a) PRODUCT_PRICE_COST - product cost price

13. NEW: new keywords available for the export orders templates:
a) ORDER_CHARGED_TOTAL: charged total of the order

14. NEW: ability to search by product foreign id on the products' admin pages

15. NEW: added product's 2nd additional brief and detail descriptions. Ability to import and export them.

16. NEW: ability to insert the current time/date to the order's "Progress History" and "Internal Notes" text fields with a click of a button

17. NEW: ability to have additional HTML anchor attributes for the custom web links

18. NEW: new keywords can be used in the main templates:
a) AUTO_GENERATED_METATAG_CONTENT_TITLE: will be replaced with the title from the metatags section of the web page

19. NEW: the new "Show Login/Register/Continue Page" configuration at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to specify whether page with "Login Existing User", "Register New User", and "Continue With Order" actions to be shown to the customers when they click on the "Next" link on the 1st checkout page

20. NEW: ability to import categorytypes and categories web page names

21. NEW: ability to import/export product web page names

22. NEW: additional functions for the Store/Customize and Handling/DropShipping features:
a) ability to select products by categoryType/category
b) ability to deselect products by categoryType/category
c) ability to assign products by categoryType/category

23. NEW: if available shipping methods are only of type "Order Amount [CUSTOM]" and "Order Weight [CUSTOM]" and they have adjustments by country or state then show fewer shipping fields on the 1st checkout page where buyers are entering their shipping information to calculate the shipping fees

24. CHANGE: the administration navigation menu was changed to group better the available menu items, the names of some menu items were changed as well

25. CHANGE: "Images Templ" has been renamed to "Helper Files"

26. CHANGE: updated to the latest cybersource API

27. CHANGE: removed the "menu_header" CSS item, introduced "menu_header_tr", "menu_header_td", "menu_header_link_tr_inner", "menu_header_link_td_inner", "site_map_header_link_tr_inner", and "site_map_header_link_td_inner" instead

28. CHANGE: UPS warning 110971 was suppressed

29. CHANGE: the "delete" icon on the checkout pages was changed to trashcan

30. FIXED: glitch using the default shipping method to calculate fees

31. FIXED: glitch using the show public wish list function

32. FIXED: problem during updating non-paid orders via the import feature

33. FIXED: if a product template is assigned and affects a detailed product page, it was not affecting the nav tab links corresponding to that page

34. FIXED: wish list items are added to the cart using their current prices

35. FIXED: when the perUser configuration of the "Agreed Terms & Conditions" was "No" then the indicator about agreed terms and conditions was not saved for the placed orders
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com