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JShopSupport 26-10-2005 08:38 AM

What To Expect In the Next JShop Server Update
 
For those of you who are interested in what to expect from the next JShop Server update, here is a list of new features and changes. This is not exhaustive and we will add to this list here on the forums before the release. Please note that we are not accepting any new feature requests for inclusion in this update.
  • Account type assignment rules at customer account creation allow you to automatically specify which account type to give a customer.
  • New granular controls over user access to admin system.
  • Addition of supplier cost.
  • Re-designed email template system allowing multiple email templates sent to different places on triggers, instead of one per trigger.
  • Many new payment gateways
  • Large amount of optimization work done on database queries.
  • New caching of recommended products to greatly reduce mysql cost in creating these lists.
  • Ability to add additional fields to sections in much the same way as with products.
  • Quickbooks export
  • Labels support in email templates and in receipt.html template
  • Changes to order status system, allowing the creation of custom order status and attachment of email templates to these status changes
  • New reports, including stock level report
  • Time zone offset setting now in admin system for servers operating on different time zones
  • Built-in carts auto-prune facility
  • Built-in scheduled database optimize facility
  • Tax enhancements
  • Ability to set an order status to something other than NEW depending on the payment method.
  • Display shipping charges on the cart page.
  • Sorting facilities available for products within sections on the front of the store
  • XHTML complicance in all JShop Server produced HTML and JavaScript
  • Send to a friend facility
  • "Invisible" extra product fields allow you to add extra product fields that are not for display in the store via. the usual extra fields loop on the product page. This allows you to setup extra information fields that you may not wish to show to the customer.
  • Built-in returns system.

We are now planning to release this new version in January, to allow time for some further optimization work and the addition of some other new features. Once this release is out we will be reverting to an update every 6 months.

JShopSupport 09-01-2006 12:15 PM

Update...
 
There are a couple of extra additions we'd like to mention at this point:
  • Main menu bar in the admin system has been altered to remove the buttons. These have been replaced with links and drop-down menus for single-click access to any sub-level admin page.
  • We are currently evaluating, and will be licensing and integrating into this next update, a HTML text editor to be used within the administration system. This will be for areas of the admin system where HTML entry is allowed, such as snippets, full descriptions on products, newsletters etc.

We are still looking to release this new version at the end of January. However, we will release it as Beta status with a 'full' release coming at the end of the following month. We're keen to try this method of release in order to open up Beta testing to our entire customer base and thus provide a greater volume of feedback on problems.

JShopSupport 24-01-2006 11:34 AM

A couple of new additions plus a small change in the release date of the Beta
 
Extra additions:
  • New URL Options. We've expanded the Safe URL option to now also provide support for extension-less files, e.g. http://host/product/25/, and also have the system add in the product or section name to the end, e.g. http://host/product/19/T_Shirt. In addition both Safe URLs and normal URLs can have the section ID removed from product links as has been requested
  • If you make your store unavailable you can provide a list of IP addresses that will still be allowed to view the store
  • Safari support removed. Unfortuantely Safari support is no longer possible in the admin system due to a lack of support for several new changes. Most noteably this is because of the WYSIWYG editor. We could not find a WYSIWYG editor that would work in Safari, simply because Safari does not have the support for the techniques required. Firefox on the Mac has been tested thorougly, however, and works correctly.
  • Reset button added for users online maximums.

Regarding the Beta release date. We are moving this back by 2 weeks, until the 14th Feb 2005. If we can release the Beta before then, we will, however we still have some extra options and tidying up to do on the code, plus work still to do on the documentation and new default templates. In addition we are working on making the system compatible with mySQL 5. mySQL 5 validates SQL queries that utilize JOINS in a different way to previous versions and this has caused several problems in the system. As mySQL 5 will become more common through the 6 month life-span of this next update, we need to address this now.

JShopSupport 06-02-2006 11:41 AM

Beta Testing Forum
 
Some of you may have noticed the new Beta Testing forum, and that we've moved this, and the PHP Coding forum, into a new sub-section called 'JShop Server Registered Users'.

First of all, full Beta is not about to start, (sorry) but we will be releasing the new tSys code today which, as it's a seperate module, should work happily with your existing sites (our demo store at http://www.jshopecommerce.com/jssdemo/ is already using this new tSys). There's a lot that's new in tSys which is why we thought it would be good to make this available sooner. We'll be adding a post detailing the new features along with the new code for download on the Beta Testing forum.

We're keen to get feedback on this straight away as it's a pivotal part of JShop Server, and the Beta Testing forum will be the place to post regarding it.

UPDATE: New tSys code has been posted to the Beta Testing forum

JShopSupport 08-02-2006 04:20 PM

Unfortuantely it looks unlikely that we'll meet the 14th Feb release date for the full Beta due to a number of problems coming to light in new sections of code, a further re-working of the main interface to better fit in with the new drop down menus (we'll post more on that in the Beta test forums soon - but it will make searching in the system much more accessible) and more work in tidying up some of the code changes.

We apologise for this delay and hope that this is the last delay before we can make it available. So we are pencilling in a date of 28th February as the date for Beta release.

We know that a number of people are waiting for the new update as it adds support for the up to date Protx protocol (that supports 3D Secure), so we are going to be releasing that on the Beta Test forum next Monday regardless, packaged so it's suitable for 1.3.0.

One other thing to add, as if we haven't teased you all enough with this new release, is that we're seeing at least a 1/4 drop in page generation time on our test sites with the new code (this is excluding the improvements made to tSys execution time as well).

JShopSupport 11-02-2006 11:12 AM

Protx VSP Form 2.22 Beta Test Available
 
We've just released the beta test of the new Protx 2.22 VSP Form integration on the Beta Test forum. This has be packaged suitable for installation on 1.3.0.

If you are a registered user of JShop Server and do not already have access to the registered users boards on the forum please email support@jshop.co.uk with your forum username and JShop Server registration details and we'll activate your account.

JShopSupport 22-02-2006 01:40 PM

We will be putting up a demo of the new front end store for JShop Server at the end of next week (3rd March), along with the release of screenshots of the updated admin system.

By Monday 13th March we will also have the admin system for the demo store available.

Final beta release will happen within 2 weeks of that, all being well.

Due to the large number of changes made to the layout of the admin system, and the completely re-written templates, this next update will be released as version 2.0 when officially released.

EDIT: Due to a number of people asking for clarification, there will not be a charge for the upgrade itself (as per our free upgrade policy), although we will be charging for installation as we did with the last update. In addition the price of our licenses will not be increasing. This seems to have all come about because we're going to be labelling the new release as 2.0 - that's simply being done because it makes sense to at this time.

JShopSupport 03-03-2006 10:36 AM

We've released the first screenshots of the admin system for 2.0 on the following post:

http://forums.jshopecommerce.com/sho...newpost&t=2381

A demo of the front end is still to follow - we are currently finishing off changes to the templates and validating everything through the W3C Validator (which takes a long time). As soon as we can we'll make it available.

JShopSupport 13-03-2006 08:04 AM

The demonstration site for the administration system will be available this week, although not today as promised. We're finishing off some changes to the layout and making some changes for problems that have come to light with the Internet Explorer 7 Beta. By Friday we'll have the admin system up and available for login.

JShopSupport 17-03-2006 09:12 AM

Release of admin demo postponed until Tuesday 21st March.


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