Detailed Release History

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4.2.142.12

HOTFIX: Paging is working properly on the attribute page now
HOTFIX: Random affiliate tracking tweaks
HOTFIX: Removed CategoryName appending to Custom Category Page Titles
HOTFIX: Fixed drilldown behavior for Category pages
HOTFIX: Product search will now work when the user presses enter while focus is on the text box.
HOTFIX: Added path validation to the External URL and Custom URL fields
HOTFIX: Added SiteMonitor page to have our automated tests check for status of sites on every server a customer's site is on
HOTFIX: Order exported now allows for deleted affiliates

4.2.142.11 - 6/29/07

HOTFIX: Added a custom affiliate code field to the Edit Affiliate page. If left blank, the code is still automatically generated, but if filled in, it will use this value instead.
HOTFIX: Made link to affiliate console from the myAccount page pop up in a new browser window.

4.2.142.10 - 6/28/07

HOTFIX: City names of less than 4 characters will be allowed on the Affiliate Application, and it will display a message if the city name is less than 2 characters long (so that cities with names 3 characters long won’t get bounced as found in internationalization efforts.)
HOTFIX: Custom urls can now have the word store in them, just not the path /store/ in them
HOTFIX: Changes to payment gateways will fix some outstanding issues
HOTFIX: Fix a few previously unhandled exceptions

4.2.142.9 - 6/28/07

HOTFIX: Product Editor timeout issues solved

4.2.142.8 - 6/27/07

HOTFIX: Added custom fields and feature flags to the product mass editor
HOTFIX: Various other small fixes

4.2.142.7 - 6/27/07

FEATURE # 364 - Added the Customer Name and Phone Number to the OrderList page
HOTFIX: Prevents the group editor control on products from attempting to save on a product that doesn't exist yet.
HOTFIX: Custom payment methods not validating correctly on one page payment
HOTFIX - The sort order on the general tab wasn't being cleaned before attempting to store it in the db.
HOTFIX: Try to fix the recursive error handling redirect on some errors
HOTFIX: Hides the email template selections on a new order
HOTFIX: micro store bug fix (use current real store ID)

4.2.142.6 - 6/26/07

HOTFIX: Fixed validation for custom payment methods and tied it properly into the one page checkout page

4.2.142.4 - 6/22/07

FEATURE: Popup help added to shipping options, affiliate config, affiliate list, edit affiliate, customer list, list order status, order list, attribute editor and variation group editor.
FEATURE: Added item number/name as an optional field to the sales analysis report
MAINTENANCE: One Page Checkout: Corrected spelling error
MAINTENANCE: Continue shopping button now works in FireFox properly
MAINTENANCE: If popup help unavailable on a page it will show in red with the help id for cross reference.
MAINTENANCE: Add to cart's continue shopping button now works properly when using from external sites and the "Returns to the last product or category" is selected
MAINTENANCE: Better error handling on shipping components for all shipping providors
MAINTENANCE: Popup help will now work on older page types properly

4.2.142.3 - 6/22/07

MAINTENANCE: Popup Help Issues Fixed

4.2.142.2 - 6/21/07

FEATURE: Added popup help to Customer Types, Edit Manufacturer, Manufacturer Mass Edit, Product Editor Mass, Shipping Options
MAINTENANCE: Fixed web service calls to our popup help system

4.2.142.1 - 6/21/07

FEATURE: Added popup help to Merge Codes, List Categories, Search Products
MAINTENANCE: Google sitemap automatic redirect to root of site
MAINTENANCE: Locking error on strange variant matrix use case
MAINTENANCE: Custom url mapping to External url textbox after save of a content page fixed

4.2.142 - OFFICIAL 4.2 Release
See Product Roadmap For Overview

This will be our stable production 4.2 release, we will be working on 4.3 features from here out
Hot Fixes will still be applied to the 4.2.142 General Release
There is a Beta Track for customers who wish to get early release beta features sooner rather than later

4.2.141.16 - 6/19/07

FEATURE: Major performance increase for extremely large catalogs that use Site Maps, product feeds and more, these pages process in under 1 second now. We will be applying this change to the category pages too next. One of the big slow downs was determining what products and/or categories were actively visible on each store and in each category. This speed was dramatically improved.
FEATURE: Entire affiliate application has been put under the store text module and will allow you to rename all fields and text on the application
FEATURE: Added Popup Help controls to the following pages: LocalizationEdit, LocalizationList, Gateway, PaymentGateways, StorePaymentOptions, ShippingProviders
MAINTENANCE: Category Tree building fix, adding an extra node in some cases

4.2.141.14 & .15- 6/18/07

MAINTENANCE: Category page sorting fixes pertaining to the new custom urls
MAINTENANCE: Affiliate application, the website name area's validation now works

4.2.141.13 - 6/18/07

MAINTENANCE: Expanded personalization text length allowed by database
MAINTENANCE: Moved snapin placeholder above the submit button on affiliate signup form
FEATURE: New columns added to the affiliate report
MAINTENANCE: Changed current visitors to visitors this hour

4.2.141.10 & .11 - 6/14/07

FEATURE: Added is affiliate a customer flag, allowing us to have an affiliate link into their affiliate console from their customer account.
FEATURE: Added link in my account to link to the affiliate program if the customer has one.
FEATURE: Affiliate automatically logged in as a customer and vice versa for easy switching between consoles
FEATURE: Added Show ETA date to the theme
MAINTENANCE: Adjusted external addtocart links to include variant information correctly
MAINTENANCE: Order Editing changes for rare errors

4.2.141.8 - 6/12/07

MAINTENANCE: Fixed script issue in 141.6, missing GO statement
MAINTENANCE: Increased timeouts on report pages
MAINTENANCE: Not specifying a CatID or MfgID on category and manufacturer pages no longer throws error

4.2.141.7 - 6/12/07

MAINTENANCE: New Items snap-in speed optimization

4.2.141.6 - 6/12/07

FEATURE: AmeriCommerce logo is now removed from affiliate console when an affiliate program logo is set for private branding purposes
FEATURE: Disable admin menu slide side effect for AC admin users. Nice when browsing on remote desktop.
MAINTENANCE: Changed SQL queries on the admin dashboard to correctly reflect Active Customers and Active Visitor counts
MAINTENANCE: Fixed paging when using Custom URLs for Categories and Manufacturers
MAINTENANCE: Product editor was trying to bind to a non-existing item

4.2.141.5 - 6/11/07

FEATURE: Custom form abilities added to the affiliate registration

4.2.141.4 - 6/11/07

MAINTENANCE: Database object pass through the middle tier, allows easier transactions from the UI and usage through the middle tier

4.2.141.3 - 6/10/07

MAINTENANCE: Object reference error using variant matrix cleared
MAINTENANCE: Assorted fixes

4.2.141.1 - 6/8/07

MAINTENANCE: Database connection left open on errors found and fixed
MAINTENANCE: Handle unhandled exceptions that restart a site's web process and log for inspection
MAINTENANCE: Remove the JIT debug window when an unhandled exception occurs
MAINTENANCE: Variant inventory editor errors in rare cases fixed, null object issue

4.2.141 - 6/7/07

MAINTENANCE: Optimized [ProductBelongsToCategory] routines to help prevent timeouts caused by the new items snap-in on large catalogs
MAINTENANCE: The new changes to rebuild the category tree on save have been hooked into the admin console, this is seemless and not noticeable and rebuilds extra large catalogs very quickly.
MAINTENANCE: Order edit page fixes

4.2.140 - 6/6/07

FEATURE: Added sort order and multiline flag on the Personalizations area of the product, it will replace the textbox with a multiline text box if the flag is set, and will allow sorting now.
MAINTENANCE: Fixed USPS international rate calculations; removed old services, added the new services
MAINTENANCE: Fixed an issue with markups on shipping provider rates
MAINTENANCE: Carts with hundreds or thousands of items in them make only the bare minimum number of calls to the shipping provider services.

4.2.138-139 - 6/4/07

FEATURE: Upgraded to new source control system that will allow faster application of hotfixes to any production site, within a matter of minutes if needed. This also allows integration of geographically remote development teams since we are expanding into other major US cities and soon internationally and need to tie together our tech resources cohesively.
MAINTENANCE: Adding the first payment gateway now enables the save button
MAINTENANCE: Fixed database connection issues (x2) with product variant matrix
MAINTENANCE: Updated Google Adwords integration to support their newest API
MAINTENANCE: Category tree updated to be much faster when importing or changing categories around

4.2.137 - 5/31/07

FEATURE: Added localization text entries for the tax section on the affiliate application
MAINTENANCE: Fixed a bug with the zipcode validation on the affiliate application that was not allowing foreign zipcodes
MAINTENANCE: Browse By Manufacturer snapin's urls are now current

4.2.136 - 5/30/07

FEATURE: Affiliate System: Tracking capabilities enhancements
FEATURE: Affiliate System: New affiliate analysis report in the reporting area
FEATURE: Affiliate System: New login page similar to login2.aspx customer login page (can add snap-ins)
FEATURE: Affiliate System: Ability to add snap-ins to affiliate application page
FEATURE: Affiliate System: Reworked affiliate settings page
FEATURE: Affiliate System: Fixed inability to delete affiliates from Affiliates List page
FEATURE: Affiliate System: Added option to create a customer account tied to an affiliate when creating an affiliate
FEATURE: Affiliate System: Commissions calculated on subtotal (minus discount) instead of total
FEATURE: Affiliate System: Other miscellaneous affiliate-related tweaks
MAINTENANCE: Reworked the imports to not pull the data into a DataTable, but instead process the file a line at a time. This should cut down significantly on the memory usage.
MAINTENANCE: Require data file to be loaded on the second step.
MAINTENANCE: Give a user friendly message when extra commas at the end of the header column names.
MAINTENANCE: Special instructions fields formatted more professionally on Special Instructions mail merge.
MAINTENANCE: Special instructions label moved around for aesthetics.

4.2.135

MAINTENANCE: Content page editor now displays the custom url path and saves correctly
MAINTENANCE: Fixed the saving of a blank shipping weight on the product editor
FEATURE: CustomUrl added to the category import/export
FEATURE: For the imports, made the column headers case insensitive when matching to our column names.
FEATURE: Some performance tweaks including not filling the disabled combo with just the 2 items it needs and not rebuilding the source column header data table for each combo box.
MAINTENANCE: Making the import smart enough to know when the category tree structure has changed and only rebuild the tree at that point. It also rebuilt the tree for the product import after the import, but the categories were added on validate. Logic added to the validation to do this at the proper time. This can greatly reduce import times for those with large catalogs.
MAINTENANCE: Long Description fields are populating properly on the product editor.

4.2.134

MAINTENANCE: Secondary product categories are now being removed on the product import.

4.2.133

MAINTENANCE: Registry IO performance caching
MAINTENANCE: Payment issue resolved when using PayPal Web Payments Pro in some situations

4.2.132

MAINTENANCE: Customer export tweak
MAINTENANCE: Registry IO performance enhancement on closing connections
MAINTENANCE: Payment issue resolved when using PayPal Web Payments Pro in some situations

4.2.131

MAINTENANCE: General Import
- A column added to allow deletes for ProductPricing, Variants and Variant Inventory. Still need to add this for category, but it is more complex than the rest.
MAINTENANCE: Customer Import
- A lot of the logic was revamped on this including validation, address and natural key lookup logic.
- Many of the field names were renamed to use user friendly names instead of the camel cased db field names. This will break any existing customer import files, but needed to be done.
- Added a lookup for store name instead of having to know the store ID.
- Added field descriptions on the import.
- Supports <<DELETE>> to clear out data.
MAINTENANCE: Product Import and Export
- Natural key look up changed to use ItemID when available. This will allow the ItemNumber to be updated.
- New fields: Long Descscription ExternalUrl’s, BulletsExternalUrl, ShipsIndividually, NonShippingItem, CallForPricingFlag, NoTax, FeaturedItem, CustomFlag1, CustomFlag2, CustomFlag3, CustomUrl
- Added check for duplicate related items.
MAINTENANCE: Category Import and Export
- New fields: CategoryImage, ExternalContentPath, DisplayCategoryContents, ShowProductsForSubs
- Beefed up the parent lookup for hooking up parent/child categories. Removed the BelongsTo field which was not being used.
- Added field descriptions on the import.
- Removed root from export and blocked root on import

4.2.130

FEATURE: Affiliate program emails added (registration confirmation, approval, denial) and tied into the new email template system
FEATURE: New affiliate related merges added for use in affiliate emails:
##AFFILIATECENTERLINK ##
##AFFILIATELOGIN ##
##AFFILIATEPASSWORD ##
##AFFILIATELINK ##
MAINTENANCE: AffiliateID was not being reloaded onto the session after a domain switch, and maybe in some other cases as well. This may fix some peoples' subtle issues with the tracking.
MAINTENANCE: Issue resolved where multiple phantom items were being added to the cart
MAINTENANCE: Sorting now works on site explorer content pages
MAINTENANCE: Null check added to manufacturer information on the product page custom layout

4.2.129

FEATURE: Product Custom URLs can now be entered, you specify the URL and AmeriCommerce will use that in all of its lists and links
FEATURE: Category Custom URLs can now be entered, you specify the URL and AmeriCommerce will use that in all of its lists and links
FEATURE: Manufacturer Custom URLs can now be entered, you specify the URL and AmeriCommerce will use that in all of its lists and links
FEATURE: Content Pages Custom URLs can now be entered, you specify the URL and AmeriCommerce will use that in all of its lists and links
FEATURE: Role based security and permission levels for all admin pages, you can set permissions for roles, then assign roles to users. Using this you can lock users out of all areas, or give them read only access. Create Read Update Delete permissions for each area.
MAINTENANCE: Menu system and tabs changed out to new higher performance scripts, decreases load and render time substantially, better cross browser support.
MAINTENANCE: New product editor tabs created to help separate areas, performance improved of the editor in general, better cross browser support

4.2.128

MAINTENANCE:
MAINTENANCE: Phantom item fixes

4.2.125

FEATURE: Store specific payment gateways, not just a global setting any longer
FEATURE: Store specific custom payment methods, not just a global setting any longer
FEATURE: Added HTML email template support
FEATURE: Added the ability to create templates for all over the system and the ability to assign them to the different areas
FEATURE: Added the ability to assign email templates to each order status created
FEATURE: Added the ability to assign templates to other system generated emails on a per store basis under store settings such as Order Confirmation emails, New Registration, etc.
MAINTENANCE: Fixed issue with the Order Editor that caused the balance of an order to not be properly updated when a payment was automatically approved by a payment gateway rather than manually approving it
MAINTENANCE: Fix for the ViewOrder page when adding orders manually without a payment
MAINTENANCE: Customer type will now be properly used for getting prices on the Add/Edit Order page when set.

4.2.124

MAINTENANCE: Added a "Save & New" button to all content page areas

4.2.123

MAINTENANCE: Fedex Ground and Home Delivery now showing. Provider changed to make 2 calls…one for each carrier.
MAINTENANCE: Sorting fixed on category page, now sorts entire contents
MAINTENANCE: Variant message now shows when clicking Continue Shopping. Defect #83
MAINTENANCE: Shipping calculations were not being displayed properly in some situations

4.2.121 & 122

MAINTENANCE: Replaced textbox with a calendar control on discount methods and added validation.
MAINTENANCE: Added inventory validation to checkout.aspx and OnePageCheckout.aspx to prevent the ordering of amounts that would potentially make inventory go negative
MAINTENANCE: Added additional validation to the admin order editor to warn the user when an amount edited or added to an order will cause inventory to go negative for that item.
MAINTENANCE: Content page links are verified on the site explorer before hitting save. If non existent, it will remove.
FEATURE: Custom Form merge modified to allow ##CUSTOMFORM[] ## to accept a height parameter.

4.2.120

FEATURE: There are now TEST buttons next to each shipping provider on the provider setup screen. It will return the response of the test shipment back for evaluation.
FEATURE: Corrected the Category Admin page to have both a Category Trail and a Category Trail Links CSS section.
FEATURE: Added customer's credit/payment information to the order export for financial system integration, for qualified users in the admin.
MAINTENANCE: DHL Shipping provider parsing was fixed, this is really Worldwide Express who resells DHL shipping services.
MAINTENANCE: AlertMessages can now have return characters
MAINTENANCE: Error when trying to delete multiple categories with the same query. Trigger changed to use an EXISTS.
MAINTENANCE: Added product manager permission to edit Variation Groups
FEATURE: Order Editor product search now has input area for variants using the variant matrix
FEATURE: Variant matrix now supports regular variants as well as variant inventory (won’t show up on front end yet)
MAINTENANCE: Added inventory validation to order editor
MAINTENANCE: Orders edited and placed via the order editor will now properly deduct from inventory
MAINTENANCE: Deleting an order will now properly replace items in inventory
MAINTENANCE: Added store validation to customer saving on order editor
MAINTENANCE: Fixed issue with validation on UserControlTemplateBase
MAINTENANCE: Added support for multiple validation messages for cart inventory checking
MAINTENANCE: Made cart inventory validation messages more specific
MAINTENANCE: Cart is now cleared on page load when adding a new order via the order editor

4.2.119

MAINTENANCE: Register.aspx wasn’t doing any state/zipcode validation, which was allowing customers to input incorrect address information. Also added State dropdown.
MAINTENANCE: Created a trigger for categories table that prevents an update on the root category that would change its belongsTo field, thus breaking the tree
MAINTENANCE: The Request Time was showing at the top of the Product Detail. Change the following in the PageTemplate Render method

4.2.118

FEATURE: Added String merges to the new Product Details Layout Editor that is in Beta, all common elements were added ##ITEMNAME ##, etc.
FEATURE: Paging added to product mass editor
FEATURE: Variant matrix no validates itself entirely before trying to add anything to the cart.
FEATURE: Added link option to the attribute list, created new attribute listing page, Add link=true to ##ATTRIBUTEDETAILS ## to use it. Example: ##ATTRIBUTEDETAILS[link=true] ##
MAINTENANCE: Changed the order editor’s product search to redirect to the correct store’s product page when variants need to be picked. This should fix any issues with incorrect pricing being applied to variants.
MAINTENANCE: Foreign orders were not populating some internal fields on the address
MAINTENANCE: CSS change on the Listing pages, it was dividing a cell's width improperly
MAINTENANCE: Variant export was duplicating rows
MAINTENANCE: Variant Inventory Import and other places were not checking for blank stock inventory.

4.2.117

FEATURE: Inventory can now be managed via the product and variant inventory imports. Product status will be correctly changed based on the stock amounts that you import. Note that you now must select a store from the drop down in the import to have the statuses updated.
FEATURE: Created new button in button themes, replaced btnGo.gif reference to btnAdd.gif on the Cart, OnePageCheckout, and OrderDetails
MAINTENANCE: Variant inventory import can now properly process variants with apostrophes in their names

4.2.116

FEATURE: Items with variant inventory now have their stock column correctly kept up to date with the combined stock total of all their variant inventory items
MAINTENANCE: Added the address and phone number to the invoices generated through the admin console.
MAINTENANCE: StoreID column should no longer be ambiguous for affiliate analysis report
MAINTENANCE: Fixed improper connection handling in category business layer
MAINTENANCE: Hot Sellers was adjusted to pull correct products
MAINTENANCE: Updated Shipment to include a phantom items info, It was originally not including them and the package count was coming back as 0 when the cart had no other items in it. This was generating a shipping error in shopCart.aspx.

4.2.115

FEATURE: Variant matrix now checks quantity already in cart when checking whether or not the requested amount is available to add to cart
MAINTENANCE: Background images should now reload properly into the style editor after saving
MAINTENANCE: Applied ProductDetailsVariations CSS to internal child DIV tag on ProductPersonalization control
MAINTENANCE: Issues with the dropping down of CSS editors worked out
MAINTENANCE: Closing connections when deleting categories fixed
MAINTENANCE: Phantom item change

4.2.114

FEATURE: A login/logout merge has been added. It will flip flop between login and logout based on their login status. Example:
## LOGINLOGOUTLINK[loginpage=login2.aspx,redirect=default.aspx]##, Both parameters are optional, the first tells which login page to use, the second tells it where you want it to go once the user is logged in.
FEATURE: New merge, ## CUSTOMERFIRSTNAME## will only display of course when the user is logged in.
FEATURE: New merge, ## LOGINMESSAGE## takes one parameter and again only shows up when the user is logged in. Example: ## LOGINMESSAGE[message=Welcome ## CUSTOMERFIRSTNAME##]## (notice this is a merge within a merge)
FEATURE: Store address and phone number added to printed invoice
MAINTENANCE: Adding a new snap-in to a page was causing a javascript error and would now allow you to edit its submenu, “Colors, Fonts, Layout,” whenever you first add it to the page.
MAINTENANCE: Variant inventory items with no product status assigned will no longer cause an error when adding to cart or wishlist.
MAINTENANCE: The Reset Password link was broken on the new ViewCustomer page. The NewWindow JS was missing.

4.2.113

FEATURE: The last of the sites and the largest customers are now on .Net 2.0 and our new file storage system, we can now experience better performance and features across the board and all older support systems and software will be removed from the servers in the coming days!
FEATURE: FlashPath added to the import and exports to support Zoomify. This is part of the ItemImages column which is a delimited list of items.
FEATURE: A DeleteProduct column has been added to the import. If you set it to True, it will delete the product and related data.
MAINTENANCE: The Rad Editor wasn’t displaying the customer’s files when you clicked on the Flash Manager.

4.2.103 to .112

FEATURE: Full integration with Zoomify image zooming and panning products, their files can replace our normal image resizer system for full zoom, pan, tilt and large image support using Flash. To use this, you copy the zoomify SWF file into the root of the site and enter a path to a Zoomify picture array in the product editor (on the Photo tab). The Zoomify flash will show up on the picture popup if a product has this path setup. Otherwise it will revert to showing the large picture.
FEATURE: Back ordering is now supported when tracking inventory for a store. There is a new setting on the product statuses screen for the “Default Back Order Status” that a product will change to when its stock goes <= 0 if the current status supports backordering (ex: Back Order must be checked on In Stock for an item to be backorderable). This change simply allows stock to go negative.
FEATURE: Order date is now editable on the Order Edit page
FEATURE: Updated the DiscountMethods page to include an option for “customer type”
FEATURE: Multiple categories can now be specified for the category drop down merge: ## CATEGORYDROPDOWN[catID=447~451,width=100px,defaulttext=Select...]##
FEATURE: Changed FeaturedItems snapin to allow for a custom CSS setting that will let the price label and the price be styled separately.
FEATURE: Added line item Cost to Order Export when exporting detail on separate lines.
MAINTENANCE: There was a problem with shipping methods not being displayed when a customer had a state listed in multiple regions. The region assigned to the shipping method may or may not be the last one in the returned list, which was being used to determine valid shipping methods. Added a SortOrder filed to the regions table and viewregions, and I added a textbox on the globalregions page that allows the customer to specify the sort order for that region. The problem can still show up if the customer never changes the default value of 0, but they can easily fix it by giving a higher value to the region they are wanting to use.
MAINTENANCE: The “Remove From Inventory When” setting, when said to “Paid”, will now only trigger inventory removal for “Open” orders that have payment received
MAINTENANCE: % of sale commissions will now only apply to the subtotal minus the discount
MAINTENANCE: Items without variant inventory will now have their product statuses correctly set to the default out of stock status when the status reaches 0
MAINTENANCE: Connection now properly closed in acCart.CheckMaxCategoryQuantity
MAINTENANCE: Malformed variant lists on order items will no longer cause an error when trying to edit the order
MAINTENANCE: Canadian states will now be handled properly when trying to place an order via OnePageCheckout
MAINTENANCE: The product details page’s variation section wasn’t applying its styles assigned to it in the Admin section correctly
MAINTENANCE: You can now search with a blank search term on the admin product search. This allows you to use a filter against all of the products in the catalog. Ex: find all out of stock products.
MAINTENANCE: Store postal code merge and settings were not working correctly.
MAINTENANCE Shipping calculation address from the cart now correctly persists to the One Page Checkout page when a domain change occurs (shared SSL usage)
MAINTENANCE: When logged in to a customer that has no valid shipping address the zipcode only shipping calculation form will no longer be incorrectly shown on the shopping cart page
MAINTENANCE: Got rid of some compiler warnings in PageTemplate
MAINTENANCE: Changed error catching in WebHelper and acError for ThreadAbortExceptions to use the “is” operator instead of checking types by the string name
MAINTENANCE: Ship date now saves correctly on the Order Edit page
MAINTENANCE: Variants now correctly stay on an order after the order is edited
MAINTENANCE: Cart application of discount methods now working correctly
MAINTENANCE: Tax values are now correctly calculated for new orders created using the Order Edit page
MAINTENANCE: Custom shipping methods with region-based rules will now correctly be available for new orders created using the Order Edit page
MAINTENANCE: Prices of items can now be adjusted on the Order Edit page
MAINTENANCE: Default Price label now correctly displays the original price of an item before editing on the Order Edit page
MAINTENANCE Tax will now be correctly calculated when manually adding a discount on the Order Edit page
MAINTENANCE: Order information is now correctly refreshed onto the page after the Save/Settle button is clicked on the Order Edit page
MAINTENANCE: Clicking Save/Settle on the Order Edit page will no longer trigger a redirect to itself unless the order is a new order
PERFORMANCE: OPTIMIZATION: Several price related functions were changed to better handle variant inventory items (better performance on variant inventory ID lookups)
MAINTENANCE: Updated the List Products page, disabled the “Enter” button; because, the users where hitting the enter key with nothing selected and getting a deletion warning, added a page redirect to the end of the deletion routine, so if the user hits refresh they wont delete anything by mistake.
MAINTENANCE: One page check out has been modified to have the shipping link say “Retrieve Shipping Options” when the drop down if hidden. It will say “Refresh Shipping Options and Amounts” when the shipping drop down is displayed. It use to say “Recalculate shipping and tax” all the time.
MAINTENANCE: The Site Explorer page is working now after the upgrade.

4.2.102

FEATURE::Added sales person tracking field to view customer page
FEATURE: Show By Category Only: setting added to featured item snap-ins
FEATURE: Order and Customer Emails to support and
MAINTENANCE: Spruced up the view customer page
MAINTENANCE: Fixed no tax checkbox bug on customer page
MAINTENANCE: PMA foreign state error fixed.

4.2.101

FEATURE: Added variant inventory export.
MAINTENANCE: Change export to write a file to persist between pages, speeding it up and removing memory issues.
MAINTENANCE: Fixed variant inventory import. It was duplicating entries in the VariantInventoryVariants table for each import when doing updates.
MAINTENANCE: Fixed potential issue with changing gateways to/from PayPal Website Payments Pro
MAINTENANCE: Fixed product editor slowness due to variant inventory grid

4.2.100

FEATURE: UPGRADED TO VISUAL STUDIO .NET 2005 BUILD
FEATURE: First release under the new .Net 2005 Framework where we will be adding AJAX support, new tools, faster development and better support for a larger team of developers. We have also gained a speed improvement with all of the new optimizations that .Net 2005 brings us.
MAINTENANCE: Updated the Shipping Method page to use the themed continue button. It was originally pulling the default button regardless of the button set being used by the theme.

4.2.99

FEATURE: Add To Cart URL can now take phantom items (items that are not even in your catalog) and put them in the cart and let you checkout and order them. This allows you to sell from a static or other external source website or even an email. Allows you to take payments for stuff without it being an item in your catalog.
MAINTENANCE: OrderMotion automated integration almost to beta!
MAINTENANCE: Cloning a product issue fixed
MAINTENANCE: Fixed an issue with creating a new customer from the OrderEdit.aspx page
MAINTENANCE: Register.aspx was not recording non-US states correctly
MAINTENANCE: Updated the IBizPay component to correct a bug with PayFlowPro integration
MAINTENANCE: Customer import tweaks
MAINTENANCE: Featured Items Snap-in now has is own styles and is no longer dependent on the styles of other pages.
MAINTENANCE: XmlHelper now has XPath capabilities

4.2.98

FEATURE: Canadian Provinces added to the States list for use in Global regions and to populate dropdowns.
FEATURE: Support added for APO addresses.
MAINTENANCE: NumberInStock (stock) has been added to the product import.
MAINTENANCE: Added new required fields to support new Google Base requirements.
MAINTENANCE: Changed link locations in the admin console for Help and Support

4.2.97

MAINTENANCE: Fixed new customer registration issues with login2.aspx
MAINTENANCE: Fixed an issue with the sorting of the quantity price display on the product page
MAINTENANCE: When a customer tries to add an amount that is more than is currently in stock from the variant matrix, the quantity box is now automatically adjusted to the maximum number available

4.2.96

FEATURE: Store Text & Language [beta] system has been built to allow changing previously hard-coded text values throughout the storefront. New fields will be added on request or as time allows. Access it off of the themes menu.
FEATURE: Cross Sell, Upsell system released that allows you to insert a "May We Suggest" page in after clicking Add to Cart button. Allows for discounts and free shipping on products. Tied to the related items on the product editor. See http://www.americommerce.com/kb/afmmain.aspx?faqid=70
MAINTENANCE: Added Store Text & Language setting for the city field on the address editor

4.2.95

FEATURE: New store setting to require a login to see pricing on the site, allows all customers to browse and see everything but pricing. Great for search engines, they can still spider the entire site, but the pricing can remain hidden. Commonly used on wholesale sites or sites requiring pre-approval to shop.
FEATURE: ShippingProviderCode added to the shipping provider table to give a short code to each provider to help with quick entry.
MAINTENANCE: Add style to hide the See Options label on many listing screens
MAINTENANCE: Added disabling/graying abilities to disabled cells in the variant matrix when items are not in stock
MAINTENANCE: Fix for quantity pricing across variants
MAINTENANCE: Fix for variant inventory warnings when you request more than what is in stock from the product detail page.

4.2.94

MAINTENANCE: Added popup help to all the new store settings of the application
MAINTENANCE: Connection issue fixed for timeouts and unclosed connections on new area

4.2.93

MAINTENANCE: Added CustomerType to the customer grid.
MAINTENANCE: Added Advanced Pricing to the Import and to the Product Export
MAINTENANCE: If minimum quantity is set, the quantity on the product detail page and the related items control will default to the minimum quantity.
MAINTENANCE: Made admin console help link point to www.myamericommerce.com, the new AmeriCommerce help portal
MAINTENANCE: Added product status dropdown to variant inventory editor screen
MAINTENANCE: Corrected an issue where variant inventory items with blank product statuses did not have their product status changed correctly upon becoming out of stock
MAINTENANCE: Corrected an issue that caused inventory to not be deducted correctly from items that were not the first item in an order
MAINTENANCE: Customer List (customerlist.aspx) grid to include the Company Name
MAINTENANCE: Variant spanning quantity pricing issue fixed. If an item has variants and has an applicable quantity price (this includes 1 as well) based on StoreID and CustomerTypeID (and I guess date range implicitly), all items in the cart with that itemID will be updated with the matching quantity price. Otherwise if no quantity prices match and it has variants, it will get the price for each of the different cart entries again and update them.
MAINTENANCE: Changed the cart to use the thumbnail picture if available
MAINTENANCE: Fix for the attribute/variant tie to only filter attributes tied to variants. A flag has been added to the Attribute Groups for this.

4.2.92

FEATURE: Attributes are now tied to Variants, you can show/hide attributes based on inventory. If you don't have small red shirts in stock, it will not show in the attribute lists of products as an option under red nor under small for that product. Flag in the global settings table which can be set on the store settings page
FEATURE: Added an SSL find and replace. Can be used to replace an http server with an https server. In globalsettings…maintained on store settings page.
MAINTENANCE: Fix for quantity discounts applied to all variants of an item.
MAINTENANCE: Added an additional Scene7 URL mask for thumbnails.
MAINTENANCE: Thumbnail settings removed from the file explorer, we now use the image resizer for all thumbs

4.2.91

FEATURE: Added the ability to change the text “FREE” when a product has a price of $0
MAINTENANCE: Picture popup errored when picture record was not found
MAINTENANCE: Category missing issue on product detail page

4.2.90

FEATURE: OnePageCheckOut.aspx.cs Page was updated in order to be able to utilize the Custom Snap-In.
FEATURE: Custom Flags added to the Product Editor and Button Themes. Up to 3 settable on the Product Editor (C1, C2, C3) and up to 5 on the Mass Product Editor.
MAINTENANCE: Added option to make snapin pictures show on their own row
MAINTENANCE: AmeriSync now gets orders and customers only from the stores listed on the Settings page
MAINTENANCE: AddToCart button style added to the Product List designer

4.2.89

FEATURE: Variants are now tied to attributes from the variant screen, this allows for hiding attributes from searches when the inventory is not there to support it.
MAINTENANCE: Product Details Bullets CSS styling has been added
MAINTENANCE: Sort Order now available on Product Mass Editor
MAINTENANCE: You can now hide AddToCart button on Product List pages but still show the prices

4.2.88

FEATURE: Customer Import for importing customer information into AmeriCommerce
FEATURE: Modifications to product pictures to allow integration with Scene7 image management services
FEATURE: Pictures can now be pulled successfully from external sources without affecting our resizing module.
FEATURE: Styles added for the variant inventory matrix
MAINTENANCE: Optimized a new date column in session data so queries can be 100x faster across millions of rows

4.2.87

FEATURE: ## LOGOUTLINK## Merge creates a text link to logout if a customer is logged in, otherwise it doesn’t display
MAINTENANCE: All variant columns added to product variant import
MAINTENANCE: Quantity discount columns on product import fixed to use new pricing system
MAINTENANCE: Setting added to store settings to control applying quantity discounts across variants
MAINTENANCE: Fixed Paypal Direct Payments Pro issue with incorrect URL for API Signature requests.
MAINTENANCE: ## DOMAINNAME## Merge now works in Registration email
MAINTENANCE: Trailing spaces on Alternate Pages are now trimmed to avoid error
MAINTENANCE: StorePath is now hidden on the Store Settings page to avoid site breakage
MAINTENANCE: Validation errors on One Page Checkout now show order totals correctly in the cart
MAINTENANCE: Firefox width issue fixed for Login2.aspx
MAINTENANCE: Putting strings into Stock field on Product Editor no longer throws an error
MAINTENANCE: Pricing and payment information has been removed from the Packing Slip
MAINTENANCE: Request Time has been removed from the Packing Slip and Invoice

4.2.86

FEATURE: Quantity discounts now have an option to apply across all variants of a product in the cart. Blue and Red shirts of the same type would have the quantity discount applied for both together.
FEATURE: Variant Inventory matrix display for the Product page, allows entering the quantity and then adding all of them to the cart at once. Example: Color going down the left and size across the top.
MAINTENANCE: Import help fields and sample files added to Variant Import and Variant Inventory Import.

4.2.85

FEATURE: Tax rates can now be store specific
FEATURE: Added new Knowledge Base to AmeriCommerce to help with user support and frequently asked questions
- AmeriCommerce Knowledge Base
- Resides under the support menu, in the online help system and in the admin console
FEATURE: Order integration with PMA Fulfillment services now supported (pmafulfillment.com)
FEATURE: New discount type – item in cart (multiplied) – multiplies the dollar amount of the discount by the quantity of the item in the cart
FEATURE: Added the beta Order Entry Page to the Accounting menu for phone in orders
MAINTENANCE: Updated new sales analysis report right align numeric fields, add commas and truncate at 2 decimal places for decimals and added Store as an optional group by field.
MAINTENANCE: Fixed sale pricing issue with variant inventory items
MAINTENANCE: Fixed price display to correctly reflect default selected variants on product details page
MAINTENANCE: Fixed an issue with AmeriSync for invoices that have been removed from Quickbooks
MAINTENANCE: Must now remove a manufacturer from all products before deleting the manufacturer option

4.2.84

FEATURE: Sales Analysis Report Builder! Build your own sales analysis reports very similar to Referrer Analysis. See what sells and what doesn't and change the report to suit your needs.
FEATURE: Variant Inventory added to AmeriSync
FEATURE: Export Sales Analysis Report to Excel
MAINTENANCE: Tweaked the One Page Checkout for better flow of information
MAINTENANCE: Fixed quantity pricing display issue for quantity prices with other criteria
MAINTENANCE: Fixed problem with shipping calculation to the UK
MAINTENANCE: Fixed problem with customer type pricing on stores using shared SSL
MAINTENANCE: Fixed one page checkout coupon code and shipping issues

4.2.83

FEATURE: External Content merge will include an external file inside the surrounding template, like an include file, it will read the html from the file and merge it with the site: ## EXTERNALCONTENT[http://www.google.com]## or ## EXTERNALCONTENT[/page.html]##
MAINTENANCE: Customer type now correctly persists on session across domain changes
MAINTENANCE: Related Items now fixed for hidden items and Active In Store settings
MAINTENANCE: Web.Config setting for PayPalCurrencyCode to override USD
MAINTENANCE: Optimizations for the Dashboard reports
MAINTENANCE: More shipping and One Page Checkout tweaks
MAINTENANCE: Entering shipping info into the shopping cart calculator will no longer cause a shipping error when going to one page checkout
MAINTENANCE: Coupon code is now properly stored and retrieved from session when going across domains (shared SSL)
MAINTENANCE: Customer login page default button issue when a search box snap-in is present fixed in Firefox

4.2.82

FEATURE: Product descriptions and bullet areas can now pull their content from an external URL optionally.
FEATURE: Shipping can now be marked up on a store level for specific defined regions.
FEATURE: Accessing Category 0 on the front end now shows thumbnails for the top level categories (ex: /store/category.aspx?catID=0)
FEATURE: Category Image now shows at the top of the Category page
FEATURE: Added Custom Hooks list for firing custom code methods developed by the user
FEATURE: Added PostOrderAdd Custom Hook and tie into custom hook framework
MAINTENANCE: Kgs now converted to lbs for shipping rate calculations
FEATURE: Added picture description to the popup picture zooming page
MAINTENANCE: More picture settings added

4.2.81

FEATURE: Was / Now pricing showing on all Date Range prices for Category, Manufacturer, Search and Product Details pages
FEATURE: ProductPictures: Add CSS settings for zoom and close links
FEATURE: ProductPictures: Add size proportional flag for each set of pic settings. Used in conjunction with the width an height, it creates a bounded area.
FEATURE: ProductPictures: Option to have large pic on prod detail revert back to default on mouse out
FEATURE: ProductPictures: Add settings for related products pictures
FEATURE: ProductPictures: Show picture popup when clicking on thumbs on product details page
FEATURE: Order Export now Optionally exports the line items of the order on its own line (1 item per line) or all on one line
MAINTENANCE: Fixed international shipping issue
MAINTENANCE: Fixed an error with payment methods on OnePageCheckout
MAINTENANCE: 1 page checkout issue with address handling solved, now auto populates address in all cases

4.2.80

MAINTENANCE: Adding a wishlist item to the cart now correctly copies the variants as well
MAINTENANCE: Paypal orders now say "Awaiting payment confirmation from PayPal." rather than "Payment has not yet been received for this order."
MAINTENANCE: Many other assorted small fixes
MAINTENANCE: Coupon codes will now properly persist across domain changes
MAINTENANCE: Affiliate console login issue corrected
MAINTENANCE: Affiliate console link builder issue corrected
MAINTENANCE: Various affiliate console database interaction changes
MAINTENANCE: Cat Image now displayed at the top of the category page.
MAINTENANCE: www.americommerce.com merge now works on email notifications.
MAINTENANCE: Continue Shopping after adding item to cart from the Product Details page now works
MAINTENANCE: Request Time removed from Receipt page

4.2.79

FEATURE: One Page Checkout: Added a “What’s this?” explanation popup for CVV
FEATURE: One Page Checkout: Fixed number ordering of steps for existing customers
FEATURE: Custom HTML Control: Can pull content from an external URL or local file
FEATURE: Allow order payment method markups on order editing page
FEATURE: Picture popup page released, part of multiple picture module, allows for an even larger version for display. Basic settings released also.

4.2.78

FEATURE: Mark up paypal and all payment methods automatically by a % to help cover costs.
FEATURE: Can now delete files from the AmeriCommerce File Explorer
FEATURE: Added line item to orderDetails, viewOrder, admin viewOrder for payment method markups
MAINTENANCE: Delete category timeouts solved

4.2.77

FEATURE: A registration confirmation email can be sent when new customers create accounts
FEATURE: Added related items to product import system
MAINTENANCE: Added order details to the order export

4.2.76

FEATURE: JellyFish.com Product Feed is now supported, just add your JellyFish ID to store settings, then place the ## JELLYFISH## merge code to the ViewOrder page and the appropriate script will be generated automatically.

FEATURE: Featured, Sale, New, Spotlight snapins added to Category pages will only show products below that category

FEATURE: New Featured Item flag on products to give you 2 ways to manually flag items in addition to Spotlight

FEATURE: Related Products snapin now available to place Related Items on the side column of the Product Details page

FEATURE: Product search algorithm tweaked to be more effective, added manufacturer, attribute and other categories to the searches scope.

FEATURE: Cart Items are tracked by CustomerID as well as Session. If you have items in your cart while logged in from one location, you can go to another computer and sign in and your cart items will be automatically moved to that session.

FEATURE: On the product if "Bound To Parent Quantity" is checked on related products, it will now use the parent products quantity and not ask for a quantity in the control.

MAINTENANCE: All other usages of thumbnails now use the image resize cache for using just 1 image on a product
MAINTENANCE: Updated AddToCart to use the architecture (no more big insert statement)

4.2.75

FEATURE: ## QUICKADDTOCART## merge added, this puts a text box where when an item number is entered into it, it will add that item number and a quantity of 1 to the cart. Does not work if the product has variants or personalization.
FEATURE: All of the product snapins (new products, hot products, spotlight, etc.) now use the image resizer cache for thier thumbnails.
FEATURE: The related products area of the product detail page now uses the image resizer cache too.
MAINTENANCE: One Page Checkout:

Password is retained on postback incase of failed validation
No Ship Outside of Regions Message now displays correctly
Existing Customer login link updated

FEATURE: OrderList: Added a Print Packing Slip icon to mass-print invoices without credit cards displayed in case your user account has Show Credit Cards enabled, can be used for a packing slip

4.2.74

FEATURE: Added new merges for order information on the view order page

## ORDERID##
## ORDERDATE##
## ORDERTOTAL##
## ORDERTAX##
## ORDERSHIPPING##

FEATURE: Login2.aspx restyled to be even cleaner.
MAINTENANCE: OnePageCheckout: Hides the state dropdown when a country besided US is chosen, changes label on the city field.
MAINTENANCE: Add Product Wizard adjusted to use the new picture upload mechanism.

4.2.73

FEATURE: Multiple Pictures for products on the front end, many new settings to support this

Under your "Theme" settings there are settings on the Category page and the Product Details page. Just select how wide or tall you want your thumbnails and it will take it from there. You can have it expand automatically, or not expand, and you can turn off resizing if you want as well and manage the hundreds of combinations and placements of thumbnails manually.

FEATURE: Image Resizer Cache

allows you to upload only 1 large image, we then resize that image dynamically based on your settings, if you want to change your thumbnail size just change the setting and AmeriCommerce automatically changes all images and stores them in a cache so that image processing will not have to be done again.
There are settings for this on the category page and product detail page and everywhere a thumbnail or image is used in the front end.

4.2.72
4.2.71

FEATURE: One page customer registration for new customer accounts
MAINTENANCE: Assorted fixes for themes and multiple pictures

4.2.70

FEATURE: Added Checkout CSS editor to the One Page Checkout page in the Themes Designer
MAINTENANCE: Better formatting to the One Page Checkout page

4.2.69

FEATURE: Product search in the admin console now uses the new faster version that the front end uses for all product searching.
FEATURE: Provisioning now supports site viewing, our new DFS cluster (much faster/secure/scalable), moved test sites over to new cluster
MAINTENANCE: Inventory issues worked out, nulls bugs fixed on beta inventory, more indexes added across application.

4.2.68

FEATURE: Product Search rewritten to have a subsecond response across tens of thousands of product, 1000%+ improvement in speed
FEATURE: Product Search now understands english words and if you search for hat, you will get hats, cap, caps, etc.
FEATURE: Advanced search routine that handles phrases and weights and many other features like google and other search engines
FEATURE: Speed! Changes across application sped it up considerably on the front end for customers, large catalogs/pricing are supported even better
FEATURE: Added multiple picture saving to the import
FEATURE: Allow text to be deleted in the import if the column is set to <<delete>>, it will wipe out the data for that column
MAINTENANCE: Allowed new, spotlight, hide flags to be set with the product import
MAINTENANCE: many assorted tweaks for inventory, shipping, importing, searching, speed.

4.2.67

FEATURE: Added ability to save multiple pictures on the product editor
FEATURE: New support for picture alt tags, picture descriptions, sorting, hiding, and flagging as primary image.
MAINTENANCE: Delete product buttons across application were centralized to call the same delete routine

4.2.66
4.2.65

FEATURE: Added Quantity Pricing display as an option to the related products area of the products detail page, can now show quantity pricing on each related item as well.
FEATURE: Custom CSS field added to ColorsFonts.aspx (Layout Settings) at the bottom, allows you to add your own custom styles to the global style sheet.
FEATURE: Added styles and css classes to the Related Item Quantity Pricing Display
FEATURE: Added stylings for ##SHOPCARTLINE ## to the Layout Settings page of the theme
FEATURE: Added new setting for tracking if a related item is a "Product Upgrade"
FEATURE: Added setting to make the child related item's qty purchased mimic the parent item being added to the cart.
FEATURE: InLine-Block has been added as an option to the Display combo box for the theme styles
FEATURE: Modified the AttributeDetail merge to allow a specific attribute group to be specified and the option to hide the labels. Parameters are optional and labels are shown by default:

Example: ##ATTRIBUTEDETAILS[groupid=4,hidelabel=true] ##

Example: ## CATEGORYDROPDOWN[catID=414,width=200px,level=2,defaulttext=Select...]##

MAINTENANCE: Fixed regex expressions in merges to stop at the first “]”….so things like ## SEARCHBOX[catID=15]## ## CATEGORYDROPDOWN[catID=414]## so both merges work instead of just the first.
MAINTENANCE: Fixed the sorting for the Attribute Drop Down Group and Browse By Attribute snap-ins
MAINTENANCE: Hand shows when hovering over search button for Attribute Drop Down

4.2.64
4.2.63

FEATURE: Attribute Dropdown Snapin Created (creates dropdown lists full of attributes instead of the free flow list) Attributes are great for refined searching
FEATURE: Manufacturer screen updated to support new editing methods and fixes deleting issues
FEATURE: New search engine optimization, meta tags extended and simplified.
MAINTENANCE: Variant Inventory and Cart interactions
MAINTENANCE: Cloning a product now does not clone the parent related product
MAINTENANCE: File deleting of other file types supported in the AmeriCommerce File Explorer

4.2.62

FEATURE: Added a style for the Photo Area on Product Details for CSS settings
FEATURE: Price is now shown always, even if using variant inventory and special pricing
MAINTENANCE: Deleting variants now removes variant inventory items associated to the variant
MAINTENANCE: Displaying price on product details in IE issue resolved

4.2.61

MAINTENANCE: Product editor fix for pricing saves on new products
MAINTENANCE: Product price display for products not using new pricing mechanism

4.2.60

FEATURE: Set a default price level/customer type at the store settings level so that all new visitors are quoted that price level
FEATURE: Attributes Links extended to the product detail breadcrumb
FEATURE: New update price on product details page takes quantity into account now
MAINTENANCE: Catalog page speed changes
MAINTENANCE: Store settings page converted to read data using CodeGen classes
MAINTENANCE: Final Breadcrumb item is now not a link and is bolded, keeps you from just refreshing the page you are currently on.

4.2.59

FEATURE: Quantity pricing display updated to use the new quantity pricing structure
FEATURE: Quantity pricing display updated to show all the variant inventory items also, and their corresponding prices
MAINTENANCE: Wysiwyg editor now starts in Wysiwyg mode on certain pages where performance is not affected
MAINTENANCE: Attributes display on 1 line when they are duplicated now
MAINTENANCE: Hidden product statuses do not show on product lists any longer

4.2.58

FEATURE: Attribute Editor: Added counts, sort order, hide flag, the merge cleaned up a bit too
FEATURE: Attributes: allow drill down flag added to allow adding non searchable attributes like dimensions, author, etc. Things that you do not necessarily want to drill down by, but you still want to populate and search by them.

4.2.57

FEATURE: Attribute Import completed, can import attributes on the product import csv file
FEATURE: Added ability to import the HIDE flag on a product import
FEATURE: Product search, Manufacturer, Catalog, and Category pages updated to new pricing routines
MAINTENANCE: More speed tweaks to the underlying architecture, string builders made on demand, isblank rewrites, redundant transaction creation/destroying removed

4.2.56

FEATURE: Paypal Web Payments Pro direct merchant processing now integrated, process charges right through PayPal's merchant gateway, no paypal account is needed for the customer, they just enter their credit card information as usual.
FEATURE: Can now add VALUES to attributes, like Author = Poe, and have it listed on the product page
FEATURE: ##ATTRIBUTEDETAILS## added, a formatted output of all attribute groups, their values and their attribute names
FEATURE: AmeriSync v2.0 Beta is now released for deeper integration with QuickBooks
MAINTENANCE: Delete row fix and formatting of rows in the new standard grid
MAINTENANCE: Many small tweaks made to increase speed after an internal speed audit was performed of core technologies
HELP: added to category pages new settings

4.2.55

FEATURE: Added width and level settings to category dropdown: ## CATEGORYDROPDOWN[catID=414,width=200px,level=2]##
FEATURE: Category page now optionally returns ALL products in all subcategories of the selected categories, this allows attribute drill down and seeing products immediately when clicking on a category.
FEATURE: Import Product Variants through CSV
FEATURE: Import Product Variant Inventory through CSV

4.2.54

FEATURE: ## CATEGORYDROPDOWN[catID=414]## Merge code added, it will add a dropdown that lists all categories within the specified category in it, when selected it will navigate to that category.
FEATURE: Styles and Spans added to the Attribute lists so it can have multiple columns of data for each item
FEATURE: ## EMAILPAGELINK## merge code added, allows you to send the current URL to a friend or coworker, it just sends a URL of the page by email using the standard email client at this time.

4.2.53

FEATURE: Attributes System beta release, add any attribute to the product and be able to drill down by it on the category search page
FEATURE: Attribute snapin, allows drilldown at the top or left side of the category page
FEATURE: eChecks now supported as a payment option
MAINTENANCE: max/min quantity was not being taken into account on adding to cart
MAINTENANCE:adding more quantity of an item from the product details page could lead to more than one item entry in the cart

4.2.52

FEATURE: the category import can now build the hierarchy during import
FEATURE: make quantity discounts smaller and cleaner looking
FEATURE: Product Detail Page: move qty and buynow buttons below the variant dropdowns
MAINTENANCE: Custom Form Validation Not Returning Validation from Main Form Correctly
MAINTENANCE: Fixed a custom form issue with redirection
MAINTENANCE: Fixed an issue where incorrect redirection would occur from order details page when using one page checkout

4.2.51

FEATURE: Attributes can now be added and removed from a product using the product editor.
FEATURE: Attributes on the product editor now support the ability to delete items just added to the screen (more JavaScript)
MAINTENANCE: Shipping weight for orders less than .1 lbs not returning from UPS, UPS does not allow this for rate calculations, fixed
MAINTENANCE: Innovative Gateway does not allow precision order totals, fixed to not send precision totals
MAINTENANCE: Tracking import now correctly reports bad or not found Order ID’s

4.2.50

FEATURE: The Product Attribute editor is ready for beta and is can be found on the Catalog menu
FEATURE: Product Pricing Import, allows you to add values to the quantity, store, customer level, and sale pricing of an item thru CSV importing
DB: RI, indexes and nullability set for attributes
MAINTENANCE: Store email is now correct when using microstores

4.2.49

FEATURE: Expanded Product Pricing tab on the product editor, it is now a matrix that supports many different pricing schemes all in 1
FEATURE: Store pricing, Customer Level pricing, Quantity Pricing, Sale Pricing and Date Range pricing and Variant Inventory pricing now supported through new advanced pricing matrix on product editor.

4.2.48

MAINTENANCE: Added ability to pass transactions from the UI down thru the middle tier, updated products and orders to be more fully transactional
MAINTENANCE: Add style routines for new grid

4.2.47
4.2.46
4.2.45
4.2.44

FEATURE: Added a Custom Hooks (for integrators) editor in the admin and tested the custom code inclusion dynamically
FEATURE: Added more columns to the AmeriSync web service for order and payment status
FEATURE: AmeriSync now updates invoices based on Order Status
FEATURE: Added a Custom Hook for PostOrderAdd (for integrators)
FEATURE:Added ability to post to our search routine from external sites using a field called SearchTerms. If an external page or site posts a form to www.yoursite.com/store/search.aspx with a field on it called "SearchTerms", AmeriCommerce will search using the words in that box. Ex:

<form method="post" action="http://www.bulkpartysupplies.com/store/search.aspx">
<input type="text" name="SearchTerms" width="120px"> <input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

Miscellaneous fixes and small new features
MAINTENANCE: Converted the AmeriQuick web service to use objects instead of SQL
MAINTENANCE: Fix for stores that have more than 10 multiple storefronts showing links correctly

4.2.43

SEO: Changed the Product Name to use the H1 tag on the Product Details page
SEO: Changed the Category Name to use the H1 tag on the Category page
Fixed store specific handling charge calculation for micro stores
Fixed product deletion issue

4.2.40
4.2.41
4.2.42

All testing, building, staging servers are now virtual servers, not tied to hardware anymore
Import/Export rewritten to not use MS technology anymore, now much faster and better, and resolves all existing CSV issues.
Cost Tracking added to variant inventory
Tracking number in order shipped email is now correctly sent when importing tracking number
Various variant inventory features enhanced
Various issues resolved

4.2.38
4.2.39

FEATURE: Handling fees and messages added to One Page Checkout
FEATURE: Added a refresh button to variant inventory tab on product editor
FEATURE: Added a "Use variant level inventory control" setting to the variant inventory tabl that will enable/disable usage of variant inventory per product.
Corrected CMS URL writing Site Explore Page
Created Custom Snap-in SnapIn
Created ControlTemplateCustomForm Class
Modified MergeCode.xml to add merge codes that had been left out of documentation

4.2.37

Variant Level inventory added to product editor and mass product editor
Track inventory on a per variant matrix level, enable/disable invalid options

4.2.36

MAINTENANCE: CMS URL: URL(s) are now building correctly
MAINTENANCE: Added AUTO Correct for Blank URL in CMS Links
MAINTENANCE: Added Navigation failsafe to LinstList Snapin, If CMS URL is still blank regardless of attempts to correct issue, a SQL statement will build URL for CMS Link that will allow for correct navigation.
Attribute system progress
Variant Inventory System progress

4.2.35
4.2.34

FEATURE: Site Explorer: Page nodes show an abbreviation of the type of link it is
FEATURE: Site Explorer: Page nodes show tooltip of all active stores its in
FEATURE: Merge Settings framework built to allow inline merge codes to have settings applied directly
FEATURE: Warehouse Status Url for warehouses that allow checking of the order status with dropshippers from the View Order page
CHANGE: Updated the USPS API URL to the new https://secure.shippingapis.com as per their notice
MAINTENANCE: Creating a new account from the WishList now works correctly
MAINTENANCE: Editing an order with no shipping items fixed
MAINTENANCE: Custom Forms now retain their values if the customer session times out during placing the order
MAINTENANCE: Rewrote CSV export routine to fix performance issues for large datasets 5000+ items, HUGE performance increase
MAINTENANCE: Site explorer does not allow CMS page deletion if CMS page is used in a link
MAINTENANCE: Site explorer sorts CMS pages by id
MAINTENANCE: Site explorer shows the image for each folder correctly now

4.2.33

FEATURE: Sale products now rotate out randomly in snapins
FEATURE: Password-Protect MicroStores
FEATURE: URL-Rewriting for MicroStores [beta]
SPEED: All content editors now default to HTML Code view to speed page loads. HTML Design view is available with the click of a button.
MAINTENANCE: Deleting products in multiple categories issue resolved
MAINTENANCE: Stores that are marked hidden on the Product Editor are shown
MAINTENANCE: Sale pricing not saving on the Product editor fixed

4.2.32

FEATURE: Added ItemNr, Personalization, Variations to OnePageShoppingCart
FEATURE: Added Retail Price and Weight to Add Product Wizard
FEATURE: Added Category dropdown to inline SEARCHBOX merge.
FEATURE: Added MicroStore level Active Catalog and pricing [beta]
MAINTENANCE: Moved Rewrite Using HTML Extension option to the theme manager
MAINTENANCE: Added 10 quantity discount columns to product import
MAINTENANCE: Product short description field increased to 1000 characters max
MAINTENANCE: Issue with saving the Home Page Layout
MAINTENANCE: System was not correctly reporting some store-loading errors
MAINTENANCE: Issue with using Paypal with non-shipping orders fixed
MAINTENANCE: Selecting Specify Shipping Address on One Page Checkout issue fixed.

4.2.31

Snap-in support added for page header and footer, lets you put any snapin in those areas too now
Product import natural key issue tracked down and resolved
Wishlisting almost done, both public and private wishlists and gift registries!
Product import conversions are now automatic, and server level microsoft odbc issue solved

4.2.30

FEATURE: Add To Cart action can be set on the Theme Manager to determine if the customer should be brought to the Shopping Cart
FEATURE: Continue Shopping can be set on the Theme Manager to determine if the customer should be returned to the last page or close the window
Added Excel Export to visitor log, click fraud, and PPC analysis pages.
Added 2000 and 3000 per page options to dropdowns on the above pages.
Optimized excel export routine on GridBase to handle exporting better.
Incorrect text on initial product export page corrected.
Removed subheader/subfooter from homepage layout in theme manager.
Added site explorer link to the themes menu

4.2.29

MAINTENANCE: Sorting the new Browse By Category snap-in fixed
MAINTENANCE: Delete Product from the Category List fixed
MAINTENANCE: Site Explorer list of tweaks completed
MAINTENANCE: Referrer Analysis Builder tweaks completed
FEATURE: One Page Checkout removed from BETA

4.2.28

Added Referrer Analysis report set. Uses a “build your own report” approach to show in-depth, customizable views of where sales are coming from on a site.
100's of combinations of reports possible to analyze the referring engine, pay per click source, feed source, keyword relevancy, and much much more.
Optionally a Store Password can be required in order to view the contents of the site, 1 password for entire store
SITE EXPLORER RELEASED: Phase 1: Manages all store's links and the contents and settings of the links
Site Explorer adds link group functionality to now make groups of links that have meaning and can be used across the site in snapin's, link lists, etc.
Site Explorer releases drag and drop functionality for sorting the lists and moving between link groups
Site Explorer adds Named Links to its list of features, can add a named link like "Shopping Cart View Page", "Affiliate Login Page", all of the system links! No more needing to memorize the URL to these pages.

4.2.27

FEATURE: Added the shopping cart contents to the bottom of the One Page Checkout form
FEATURE: Added a login link to the existing customer message on the One Page Checkout form
Browsing the site with a Theme Preview set for a theme that has been deleted now shows the real Theme
Trying to edit a theme that has been deleted no longer throws an error

4.2.26

FEATURE: Browse By Category control can now display a sub-category's contents
New category insert fix when using import csv routines
Removed the ability to have orphan products
Added Product Editor checks to avoid multiple relations between the same 2 products
Display Category Contents set to True on product import by default
Product Editor Save & Return when adding a new product now returns correctly
Changed Heading on reporting menu to read "Reports Menu"
Added a Child Check on Delete action for the VariantGroup Editor
Verbage change on Email Editor "Special Codes", renamed to "View Site Merges"
View Site Merge Link Added to PaymentTypes Editor
Created a new page View Site Merge, Added to Global setting menu

4.2.25

FEATURE: Display an external URL or local file in place of a specific category within the Theme frame
FEATURE: Optionally do not display a category's contents
FEATURE: Mass-Delete multiple products at once from Product List in the admin console
Product List in admin console converted to use the new incredibly fast category structure
Mass Import routine converted to update the new category structure
Product list will now correctly display products that have a category set as a secondary category
Product import now correctly populates the ProductCategories and InactiveInStore
Product export speed SIGNIFICANTLY improved
Product export now correctly exports inactive stores
AdCodeVisits is now populated with the correct SessionID
Added a new helper method: AC.ACS.Catalog.CatalogHelper.GetAllProductsInSubtree(int piCatID), a front end to a stored procedure of the same name

4.2.24

FEATURE: Added Ordered Quantity to the Order Editor so the original quantity will be viewable even if the shipped quantity changes
View Products link from the Category List page in the admin linked to incorrect page
One Page payment shipping method fixed

4.2.23

Added ability for tracking import to send all relevant emails, adjust stock, etc. based on Order Status.
UPS real service name added to the order export, for easing world ship integration
Put an Add To Wishlist button in the Cart items and Product Page (currently hidden)
Made a Wishlist page that shows items currently in the Temporary Wishlist
Made a Create New Wishlist and Add Items form to move all Temporary items into a Saved Wishlist
Made a My Saved Wish List listing page for listing them

4.2.22

FEATURE: Added a 1 line shopping cart for your store, just put anywhere and it will show up there!
FEATURE: Added Source and PPC fields to ViewOrder page
Source and PPC fields now show correctly on Order Alert Email to admins
FEATURE: Added search by manufacturer invoice number to Order
FEATURE: Added category image rolldown to products for shopping portal feeds
FEATURE: Non-shipping shopping carts no longer display shipping address and shipping methods on One Page Checkout
Shipment Notification now added to Order Export to help ease WorldShip Integration
UPS Standard shipping service names saved on the order and exported with it to ease WorldShip Integration
Categories now sorting correctly in the admin editor, was only sorting what is shown on the page

4.2.21

Max and Min quantity for products is now much smoother, If the quantity requirements are not met an error message is displayed and the customer is not allowed to checkout until the errors are fixed. But it still saves all cart interactions and stuff up to then so they can just update it and move on.
Added ResidentialAddress column to order export for WorldShip support. Always true since that assumption is made for shipping quotes.
Site Explorer aesthetic changes, looking really good
Site Explorer now lets you show links on ALL stores or only on SELECTED stores, pages/links can span stores! No more separate copies of pages/links in a store.
Site Explorer supports Named Links (premade links like MyAccount, ShoppingCart, AffiliateLogin, etc.) so you dont have to know the URL to get to them anymore. And we can centrally change them.

4.2.20

Order Export/UPS Integration: Added total weight to order export, fixed logic error in shipping state
Category Images can now roll down to the Product Details page if set on the theme
Tracking Number Import: Order Status added, now sets the order status
Change: Extended CommandTimeout on product search from 30 seconds to 100000 seconds
Searching products in the back end using multiple criteria
Changing the Shipping Amount on an order using the Order Editor now works as expected
Null Stock values from Imports checked on adding / removing items from stock on Order Status change
Randomization is enabled again for the Spotlight Items snapin.
Category Editor View Category button was set to use http://localhost instead of the real store path
Switching to Horizontal Category Layout in the Theme Manager fixed

4.2.19

Added the ability to change the Order Alert Emails Subject line
Added the ability to change the text at the top of the Order Alert Emails
Added the ability to turn off and on which type of Order Alert Emails are sent out
Changed styling of ##SEARCH_BOX##
Site Explorer nearing completion for first trials
If store wizard has not been ran, it tell the user on the main site now

4.2.18

USPS International Shipping Rates updated to new USPS API calls
Category database change finally finished and checked in [beta]
Category change increases catalog performance by 1000's of %, quicker response times for every operation that hits categories
1 month in development this category change is very substantial and is behind the scenes so very little visible changes are there
Updated Edit Catalog page to show products and categories in that category and all sub categories. example: 2 (9)
Huge performance increase on Catalog page (complete catalog listing page now works in a few seconds, not 30-60 seconds on large catalogs)
Product search is considerably faster as well
The search index functions have been REMOVED!! No more search index that has to be recalculated!
Doubling of categories when using Active In Store categories at the root level fixed

4.2.17

Improved the Theme Manager page to allow many common settings to be adjusted in one spot. [beta]
Fixed the top Add link on the content pages
Added the ability to override the text for "Price: " and "Retail: " for the catalog pages.
Added the ability to easily hide things like the Add To Cart, Manufacturer, and other settings throughout the site.
Added the ability to easily change the most common colors used on the site.
Added info about how to find the FTP Login info for Google Base to the Google Base page
Check for invalid characters on new One Page Payment page

4.2.16

Zip code/State validation is now not affecting global orders.
Order range markup message is now being cleared when cart quantities are changed

4.2.15

One Page Payment issue when no payment method selected, applied to One Page Checkout too
Inventory stock value temporarily removed until major category structure change is integrated

4.2.14

Product Search in back end based on Stock quantity, Hidden products, Product Status
Decrements Stock value when order status is closed but not declined or canceled
Increments Stock value when order status is canceled or declined if items have been removed from stock previously
Shipping methods issue, now shows on orders

9/2/06 - INTERNAP DATACENTER MOVE SUCCESSFUL!!! 100% Improvement in speed thanks to PNAP technology that Internap provides to Google.com and other big names.

4.2.13

One Page Payment Beta Introduced, no custom fields on it yet, this feature allows you to accept payments and donations, which get entered into the system as a Payment Only Order and allows for credit card processing, etc.
Site Explorer page added along with references to a new Tree View Control, for use as a complete Site Builder/Explorer, a new feature coming soon.
Fixed issue with hiding products on related items
Fixed issue with displaying a cart with deleted personalizations
Fixed issue with Billing Address when trying to edit a deleted address
Fixed issue with OrderEdit when posting a payment to a non-US address
Fixed issue with OnePageCheckout not collecting CVV code from credit cards
Fixed issue with the Colors, Layouts and Fonts editor for handling mal-formed custom styles
Fixed issue with Custom Payment Methods on OrderEdit page
Fixed issue with handling passing expired sessions between shared SSL sites

4.2.12

Zip Code verification of addresses, ensures zip codes are in the state selected
If you edit a category, have it start with the one you were in as the parent category
Added ability to hide newsletter signup on checkout process
One page checkout shipping fix

4.2.11

One Page Checkout: shipping recalculation fixed when selecting from dropdown
Clicking submit multiple times does not resubmit order.
Another Reverse DNS lookup found, added timeout to it, sporadic speed issues are now fixed
Added help to Goal Tracking beta page and to Category Editor
Delete confirmation and save button added to Goal Tracking Page
One Page Checkout: Fixed FedEx shipping calculations bug
One Page Checkout: Enabled custom forms for this page
Setup Wizard: Fixed a bug with the setup wizard on the first time you log in to a new store

4.2.10

Added flag for a CMS page to be shown on all sites or only the selected site, allows pages to be reused using merges and such.
Added view button and help to content page editor
Add to navigation from the CMS list now adds an SEO link, adds a link title, confirms the add and shows the link by default
Delete confirm added to Navigation lists
Standard navigation buttons added to Category Editor for saving, save and return, cancel, preview
Reverse DNS timeout of 1 second added, this avoids long initial page loads due to 3rd party's slow reverse DNS responses
One Page Checkout: If we have a shipping method set from the shopping cart page, try and apply it

4.2.9

One Page Checkout - Paypal added to payment methods
One Page Checkout - If only one payment method, select it by default
One Page Checkout - Added existing customer login link
One Page Checkout - Added note about optional registration
One Page Checkout - Shipping Drop Down automatically posts back when selecting
Single save button on Global Settings>Email Editor, instead of one for each item.
File Browse standard control added to the product editor.
Switch to text editor link is hidden now
Help added to customer view, product editor, enter tracking number pages
Added new javascript files to speed up menu system in admin console

4.2.8

One page checkout option is now in Beta
Turn on one page checkout from the Themes Manager page.
Customer registration is now optional with One Page Checkout
Report Nav Bar converted to plain HTML for speed
Fixed issue deleting Custom Payment Methods

4.2.7

Google Sitemaps are fixed to show only those products and categories active on the store
Hide Flag added to the content page editor
One Page Checkout included for Beta Testing
Category Thumbnail trickle down, for allowing a category image to be used as the default image if there is no image specified on the product.
Removed ID fields from all DIV and SPAN tags on the store front end to reduce page size, reduce load time, and improve SEO keyword density
More tracing added to the code for more speed optimization efforts

4.2.6

added customerfirstname and customerlastname to the merge list
added maximum shipping weight for a package on per store basis (since UPS=150lb max & USPS=69lb max),added to store>shipping options

4.2.5

Switch out .aspx for .html now for all product, category, manufacturer, and cms pages, this is now a setting under store settings
Fixed issue with no user agent, some timing websites dont send a user agent, allows polling websites better accessibility to your store
Database changes made to support Category Trees, major catalog speed gain
GetOtherCategories routine changed to support category tree
Setting for allowing a category image to be used as the default image if there is no image specified on the product.

4.2.4

Customer Email added to Order Export
Category Export released in beta, export your whole category list so you can make changes and reimport back in
Category Import released in beta, import your whole category list with changes and nesting for mass updates
Quantity pricing issue fixed

4.2.3

Order Edit option released in Beta now for all customers
Made the Manufacturer name on the Catalog.aspx page a seperate link and added it to the theme style system
Adding an item to the cart without selecting all the variants and personalization features sends them to the product page and generates a javascript popup alert
More personalization debugging
Make the option to require a MicroStore be selected before allowing a customer to view a catalog page
Added context-sensative help for the Store Settings page
Maximum of 149 lbs in each package built by the shipping calculation system so UPS and FedEx will return rates
Total Request Time added to the bottom of every page. Can turn it on for display on the front end under Theme > Layout Settings.
Bug fixes on multiple personalization questions
Bug fix on FTP browser for short directory names
Bug fix on quantity pricing editor to recover after putting non-numeric values into the range fields
Increased size of the quantity column in the database to allow for much larger order quantities
Bug fix in multiple Google Base account settings for existing Google Base accounts

4.2.2

Removed StorePages SubHeader and SubFooter sections and replaced them with snapin controls for more flexibility
Sped up theme builder by removing left menu and making it static html instead
Cached menu in admin console to speed it up
Buttons and Graphics zip download now works on the fly!
New Zip component version fix corrupt zip files
Now tracking microstore as a personalization string on items in a cart
Personalization strings are now showing on the ViewOrder and shopping cart pages
Add To Cart without all the variants or personalization fields redirects to the product page with a javascript alert message

4.2.1

Upgrading websites to new versions of AmeriCommerce no longer boots users off, all users pick up exactly where they left off!!
OrderID not found error fixed in new OrderEdit pages
If a theme is not setup, automatically redirect to store setup wizard, good for free trials and inexperienced users
Related products on product editor does not return products to the main page
Google Base settings are now multi store compatible, you can have different logins for each store in a multi store environment
MicroStoreHomePage store page type created for MicroStore management

4.2.0

Upgrading websites to new versions of AmeriCommerce no longer boots users off, all users pick up exactly where they left off!!
OrderID not found error fixed in new OrderEdit pages

4.1.51

Added Help Popup control most pages in the Administrative Console, Context Sensitive Help is now built in from the ground up, with editability for AmeriCommerce administrators
Converted the ProductDetails.aspx page to use only the new objects
Converted the ProductVariations.ascx control to use only the new objects
Added Product Personalization to the product details page, as well as to the Variants tab in the product editor.
Fixed sorting issues for variants on the Variant Editor
Fixed sorting issues for variants on Product Details
No longer errors when trying to export to a column name with a space in it
Fixed a tax bug on the Order Edit page
Fixed a comparison bug for single shipping method rate calculation caching

4.1.50

Goal Tracking added to marketing and visitor logging, track whether a certain page is hit as a goal, such as an order page, contact page, signup page, etc.
New Goal Aggregation report to show results of Goal Tracking
Site specific Url redirects and rewrites added, so now global and site specific redirects are supported
QuickHelp KnowledgeBase popup system can now edit, save and create records
QuickHelp KnowledgeBase list page completed showing all QuickHelp entries
QuickHelp tweaks to centralized AmeriCommerce web service
Added IsSystemAdmin off of User class
Added menu items for QuickHelp customization for Support and Admins

4.1.49

Added delete restriction to the following 3 three pages, ProductStatus, GlobaleRegions, ListOrderStatus
Store/Admin/Wizards/AddProduct.aspx, remove the width on the Category dropdown so it will expand on it's own
added filebrowse control to categoryeditor
fixed url for "new Catagory" button on listproducts page
Added SortOrder to product import
Old product URLs from 3.0 version redirection issues solved

4.1.48

KnowledgeBase and QuickHelp webservice written and working to support centralized popup help across AmeriCommerce
Hooked in URL redirection pages to Global Settings Menu
Added ability to do rewrite urls on a rewritten url to the url redirection system
Set default value for redirects to Active
Fixed an issue with old orders not displaying correctly due to null amounts in the HandlingAdded column
Fixed an issue with OrderEdit page loading old orders with deleted products
Fixed a few issues with PayPal and how it tracks payment amounts and shipping addresses
Added Save and Edit button to the Quick Product Entry Wizard
Added MicroStores to the menu with a BETA tag
Added coupon code entry to be shown on public shopping cart page
Added a new style for the look of the coupon code
Added option to change the label text for coupon code
Fixed issue where you cannot view the TaxRates page if you deleted a region that was attached to a Tax Rate
Fixed issue on the Manufacturers page

4.1.47

Fixed decimal issues with product search
Eliminated the blank page after printing an invoice in the admin panel

4.1.46

Popup help control added for context sensitive help, making it hit central AmeriCommerce knowledgebase now
Product Add Wizard beta created
First tests of new category structure to support super fast catalog operations and many new features in the future.
Import bug fixed when validating item number
Product editor saving is now faster and css clashes are removed, images added to tab background

4.1.45 - 7/20/2006

User settable redirects to rewrite old URLs and point them to new URLS, choices of Url Rewrite, Redirect 301, and Redirect 302 for search engine optimization
Completed removal of dependencies on Products table for Cart or OrderItems
Fixed color picker compatibility issues in Firefox
Fixed theme designer javascript compatibility issues in Firefox
Added setting for whether or not to show manufacturer name in page title on product details pages in product details section of theme designer

4.1.44.2 - 7/19/2006

Removed dependency of Products table from the ViewCart table
Improved performance of Tax and Shipping calculations by reducing the number of database calls required
Added MaxLength of 255 to page title, keywords and meta tags on Category Editor
Fixed a bug with search strings that were too long on the Product Search routine
Fixed a bug with the Multiple Invoices page related to the architecture upgrade from yesterday
Verified a product import, export, change, and re-import
Added check to see if category is there before deleting, to prevent people from attempting to delete multiple times
Added display (yes/no) setting drop down to all design controls in theme designer
Added margin setting to all design controls in theme designer
Added settings areas for h1, h2, h3, h4, p, and hr tags in layout settings in theme designer
HTML editor preview views now display correctly marked up output (correct stylesheet)
Fixed theme designer display issue in Firefox
MicroStore Edit and MicroStore list pages released

4.1.44.1

Improved Product Export to handle recursive categories, long HTML descriptions
Converted ViewOrder and ViewInvoice pages in admin panel to new architecture.
Fixed bug in which viewing an order with a product that had been deleted was not showing the product on the order.
Now allow Category names up to 255 characters
Began implementing MicroStores (MicroStoreList and MicroStoreEdit pages added)
Added CategoryHeader column to categories table
Three layout styles now supported for child categories list on category pages
Corrected CategoryEditor layout problems in Firefox
Added styles for CategoryHeader and CategoryFooter to Themes editor
Category short description now only displays in child categories list
Category header HTML now displays beneath category name and before child category list on category page
Added new navigation buttons to CMS page editor to take back to list
Added Confirmation for deletion to CMS list
Wrapped delete confirmation for buttons and other webcontrols in AC.Web.ControlHelper

4.1.43

Added Product Export in Beta mode to facilitate mass-changes to the catalog
Fixed making the Search button the default button after typing in a search string into the Search box
Shortened the length of the product descriptions submitted to ShopZilla to meet their requirements.
Extended the Category Name from 50 to 255 characters
Updated category edit page to have header/footer collapsible sections and menus, save button moved

4.1.40 thru 4.1.42

Added caching to the shipping methods to dramatically reduce calls are made to the shipping providers, meaning faster page loads and less chance for communication issues.
ZipCode Only option for shipping calculations on the shopping cart page
Updated the Payment Gateways to handle Credits
Fixed an issue where the Select button wasn’t working from the file browser when loaded from the Product Editor
Fixed an issue when saving Checkout Page Types in the Themes editor
Fixed an issue with the Font, Layout and Sizes editors not disabling inherited styles.
Shopping cart shipping calculation options added to show zipcode only or full form
Handling fee calculation bug fixed
State is now required for full shipping calculation form
Google sitemap enhancements, page to verify and put verification meta tags that google provides, instructional page to get it setup
Google Sitemap Meta Tag verification added
Google Sitemap link added to the Marketing menu

4.1.39 - 7/6/06

Added Home as first option in the category breadcrumb trail.
Quantity discount display table on front end product page added to show price breaks, if existing.
Removed refresh after search index rebuild.
Added Global setting to Allow Non-Unique Item numbers and turned this field to false for everyone other than certain customers.
Added Validation to never allow Non-Unique item numbers across application, can be turned off by using the new AllowNonUniqueItemNumbers flag.
Added webmail administration and webmail checking links to Global Settings Menu.
Checkbox issues fixed on all grids in admin panel.
Overwriting thumbnail height in product lists is now fixed.
Errors fixed in ViewOrder, OrderList, and GridBase.

4.1.38 - 7/5/06

Converted Product Editor admin page to PageTemplate architecture.
Product Editor variant error fixed when not selecting a variant group.
Added Design Icons to the Theme Editor Pages.
Add Variant Group issue fixed.

4.1.37 - 7/3/06

Fixed Feed tracking to identify the actual feed source.
Added refresh to Site List (provisioning).
Fixed nav bar visibility issues when no items were present on product list pages.
Added top and bottom navigation bars to remaining product list pages (Search, Manufacturers).
Added CategoryProductListNavigationLabel setting to theme (ex: Products 1-3 of 3 can be changed to Items, etc).
Moved the sort by box on product list pages to above the top nav bar and floated right.
Added a fix to the adcode/affiliate aggregation stored procedure.
Added support for building a link to the homepage in the affiliate console.
Added table f