Shopping Cart Software Service

Rutabaga

Modular Merchant version 3.3.0
Released 06/02/2008

How do I update my Modular Merchant account?
For clients running version 3.x:
The next time you log in to your store Administration area, this update will automatically be installed.

If you're already logged in to your store's administration area when this update becomes available, then an icon stating "An Update is Available" will be displayed in the upper-right section of your Admin Home page. Click this icon to review the release notes, and then install the update by clicking the "Install this Update" button at the bottom of that page.

For clients running version 2.x:
Refer to this forum article for more information:
http://forums.modularmerchant.com/viewtopic/551/

This update includes the following items:

Scheduled Orders: The "Search Scheduled Orders" page will now remember the "Results Per Page" setting. (Previously, it would revert back to "25" when the admin logged out.)
Storefront: Fixed a bug that could prevent the pagination from being reset to page 1 when changing from one category to another in the storefront.
Storefront: Fixed a bug that could prevent the pagination from being reset to page 1 when changing from one manufacturer to another in the storefront.
Storefront: Products that are only associated with inactive categories will no longer be included in the lists of categories generated by the {LIST-NEWEST-PRODUCTS} and {LIST-BEST-SELLERS} QuickCode Tags. Thus, if every category a product is associated with is inactive, the product will not be displayed in the storefront.
Customer Details: If a customer doesn't belong to any Customer Groups, a message stating this should be displayed on the Customer Details page. This message was not being displayed.
Coupons: Fixed a bug in which coupons with a large "Redemption Limit" could not be used by more than one customer using the "Guest" checkout option. Only the first customer to use guest checkout could use the coupon. Now the coupon may be used by multiple guests, until the Redemption Limit is reached.
Search Products: Fixed a bug in which deleting a product would not delete its product-to-category associations in some situations.
Product Editor: Fixed display error in the Scheduled Billing section of the Prduct Editor. If the "product rebills as itself" radio button was selected, the radio button selection would change to "product rebills as a new product," with that product's SID number entered in the text field.
Design Packages: Improved the search and replace tool that translates the paths to CSS files when template-driven storefront webpages are rendered. Previously, links to CSS files could be broken if they were formatted in certain ways.
Digital Products module: Fixed a bug in which the "Search Download Files" page would display the wrong value in the column that states how many products use the Download File. It would display zero if a product had one and only one Download File attached to it.
Storefront: The php page in the /manufacturer/ directory that redirects the customer to the manufacturer.php page wasn't compatible with variable named "id". (It was expecting a variable named "mid".) The product and category directories can use "id", so the manufacturers directory has been updated to be compatible with variables named "id" as well. Note: If a variable named "id" is used, the store will rename it to the appropriate "mid".
Storefront: Fixed a bug with the "Hide products that have less than this many in stock..." System Setting. The storefront would hide products when the number of units in stock reached the value of the System Setting, instead of when the number of units in stock went below it. For example, if the system settings were set to "Hide products with less than 3 units in stock", then a product with exactly 3 units in stock would have been hidden. This has been corrected so that the product would start being hidden when it had 2 units in stock.
Storefront: Further improved the storefront search engine's compatibility with "high risk" characters, such as quotation marks, apostrophes, ampersands, less than and greater than signs.
Storefront: Viewing an active product that is assigned to an inactive category will now work as intended. The product's storefront page will load, but the references and links to the inactive category will be excluded from the page. (Previously, the product details page would not load in this scenario.)
Customer Groups: Corrected an issue where deselecting the option "Match only active customers?" in the Customer Group editor would cause a MySQL error to be displayed.
Category Editor: Added some safeguards against setting a category to be its own parent category, thus creating an infinite loop and a really interesting error message when viewing the category's storefront page.
Admin Activity Report: Some entries in the Admin Activity report, which were generated by cron jobs, were not having the file name recorded. (Specifically, the "scheduled_orders_transact" cron was not recording the file name when the script ran.)
Support Tickets: Added content formatting options to Support Tickets. For example, Support Tickets can now include bold, italicized and colored text, images, links and more. For simplicity, Support Tickets use the same standard formatting tags used by many forums and blogs. Details on the formatting options are available on the Modular Merchant forum at: http://forums.modularmerchant.com/faq.php?mode=bbcode#0
Search Customers: Options to search by Customer Groups have been added to the Basic Search.
Customer Groups: Places that list the number of customers in a Customer Group now include a link to display a list of those customers. (Previously, the page just stated "This Group contains X customers", but there was no way to view a list of those customers.)
Product Editor: Uploading a "Download File" from within the Product Editor will automatically add that file to the list of downloads associated with that product. (Previously, the Download File would still need to be associated with the product manually after it was uploaded, adding an extra step.)
Product Editor: Added an option to the "Display Options" section of the Product Editor to toggle whether or not the product is included in searches made by customers in the storefront. This will allow hidden active products that are assigned to inactive categories to remain hidden from search results. All products are set to "included in search results" by default.
Template Images: The Template Images tool will now list all images contained in a Design Package directory. This includes images in the Design Package directory itself, the "images" subdirectory, or any other directory or subdirectory therein. The Template Images tool is located in the store's administration area at: [Design > Template Images].
Order Details: The Order Details page will now display the country ISO code associated with the order's IP address. (example: US). Mouse-over the ISO code to view the full country name.
Search Categories: The Search Categories page has been revamped with new search system and some interface improvements. Categories can be searched by more criteria and a series of search rules can be created.
Search Categories: Users can now export a selection of the categories listed in the "Search Results" section of the page. The export will generate a spreadsheet to download. The export will use the same preferences set on the "Im/Export Categories" page.
Search Manufacturers: The Search Manufacturers page has been revamped with new search system and some interface improvements. Manufacturers can be searched by more criteria and a series of search rules can be created.
Search Manufacturers: Users can now export a selection of the Manufacturers listed in the "Search Results" section of the page. The export will generate a spreadsheet to download. The export will use the same preferences set on the "Im/Export Manufacturers" page.
Search Products: The Search Products page has been revamped with new search system and some interface improvements. Products can be searched by more criteria and a series of search rules can be created.
Search Products: Users can now export a selection of the products listed in the "Search Results" section of the Search Products page. The export will generate a spreadsheet to download. The export will use the same preferences set on the "Im/Export Products" page.
Search Products: Products can now be added to or removed from Discount Groups on the Search Products page.
Search Products: It is now much easier to update the products' Display Order on the Search Products page. Simply enter the "Display Order" value in the appropriate field for each product, and click the "Go" button at the bottom of the page. (Previously, each product also needed to have its checkbox selected and "Update Display Order" had to be selected from the "action" menu at the bottom of the page.
Export Order Data: The Export Order Data page has been completely rebuilt from scratch. The new version includes an improved interface, new preferences, more fields to include in the download, and definitions of ambiguous fields. The data export engine now allows for exports to be generated from other store pages too, such as from the Search Orders page.
Search Orders: The Search Orders page has been revamped with new search system and some interface improvements. Orders can be searched by more criteria and a series of search rules can be created. It is planned to apply these improvements to other sections of the administration area as well.
Search Orders: Users can now export a selection of the orders listed in the "Search Results" section of the Search Orders page. The export will generate a spreadsheet to download. The export will use the same preferences set on the "Export Order Data" page.
Admin Home: The "Recent Sales Statistics" list on the Admin Home page now has a link to download that day's orders to a spreadsheet. The format of the spreadsheet is the same as the "Export Order Data" page's.
Customer Details: The "Customer Order History" list on the Customer Details page now has a link to download the list of orders to a spreadsheet. The format of the spreadsheet is the same as the "Export Order Data" page's.
Customer Details: The "Order History" section of the Customer Details page now includes an option to view an on-screen summary of the customer's orders and the total revenue of all the transactions listed in their Order History.
Customer Details: The Customer Details page will now display the country ISO code associated with the customer's IP address. (example: US). Mouse-over the ISO code to view the full country name.
Design Packages: When downloading a copy of a Design Package, added an option for whether or not to replace any custom QuickCode Tags in the templates with the tag's content. This can be useful in several scenarios. For example, when downloading a Design Package to distribute to others, the custom QuickCode Tags would probably be switched to their content. However, when downloading a Design Package to just do maintenance on, you probably want to keep the custom QuickCode Tags within the templates in place. (Previously, custom QuickCode tags were always replaced with their content when exported.)
Design Packages: If no Design Package has yet been selected to work with, the "Manage Design Packages", "HTML Templates", "CSS/JavaScript Files" and "Template Images" areas will now default to using the Design Package currently live in the storefront. (Previously, these would default to no Design Package selected.)
Design Packages: The "Manage Design Packages", "HTML Templates", "CSS/JavaScript Files" and "Template Images" areas now have an option to make the Design Package you're working with into the live Design Package applied to your storefront. (Previously, this could only be done in the System Settings.)
Order Details: Added an option to the Order Details and Search Orders pages to place a copy of a selected order. This option will open the "Place an Order" tool for the customer associated with the original order and will load the products into the basket. On the Order Details page, this option is located in the "Order Toolbox". On the Search Orders page, this option is available from the menu below the search results area.
Im/Export Manufacturers: The Manufacturer import and export tools have been rewritten from scratch. The import and export system can now handle 100,000+ records. (If you prefer to use the old import/export tools, those pages are still available. Contact Modular Merchant support if you would like a link to those pages.)
Im/Export Categories: The Category import and export tools have been rewritten from scratch. The import and export system can now handle 100,000+ records. (If you prefer to use the old import/export tools, those pages are still available. Contact Modular Merchant support if you would like a link to those pages.)
Im/Export Products: The Product import and export tools have been rewritten from scratch. The import and export system can now handle 100,000+ records. (If you prefer to use the old import/export tools, those pages are still available. Contact Modular Merchant support if you would like a link to those pages.)
Im/Export Customers: The custoemr import and export tools have been rewritten from scratch. The import and export system can now handle 100,000+ records. (If you prefer to use the old import/export tools, those pages are still available. Contact Modular Merchant support if you would like a link to those pages.)
Storefront: Any time a password is displayed in a system-generated message, all but the first and last characters will be obscured. For example, the password "crayon" will be displayed as "c****n".
Search Customers: Added "Customer Active Status (Y/N)" to both the basic and advanced search options on the Search Customers page.
Admin Home Page: Added AJAX to the Admin Home Page so the Recent Sales Statistics, Gross Sales Targets, Recent Orders, and Today's Best Sellers lists will automatically update themselves every five minutes.
Admin Menu: Added an option to start a new Support Ticket to the "Support" sub-menu. (Previously, this menu linked only to the "Search Support Tickets" page, and new Support Tickets could only be started from that page.)

_________________
Rutabaga
Keeper of the Development Schedule
Modular Merchant Shopping Cart Software.