January 28th, 2012New Features:
· Improved the KonaKart promotion subsystem (Enterprise only) by adding functionality to evaluate promotions on individual products rather than as Order Totals. This means that a customer can now visualize the details of active promotions for a product before adding it to the cart.
· Added functionality to support product options with variable quantity (Enterprise Only). i.e. Customer can choose number of GigaBytes of extra memory for a product by entering an amount rather than choosing a fixed option.
· The object containing payment gateway callback information has been given some extra attributes so that more information can be stored regarding the transaction type, transaction amount and custom information.
· Added a new enableCustomer() API call and struts action to call it. This method can be used to verify a customer’s email before enabling him.
· Added some custom relationship types in the Admin App for setting up product to product relationships.
· Added animated gif to GWT one page checkout code to show customers that the system is waiting for data to arrive. Useful for the case when interfacing with external shipping or tax systems that may take a few seconds to respond.
· Upgraded to new version of jTDS (v1.2.5) – for details of changes see http://jtds.sourceforge.net/
· Upgraded to new versions of avalon-framework-api (v4.3), commons-collections (v3.2), commons-configuration (v1.7), commons-logging (v1.1), jcs (v1.3) and downgraded commons-pool (v1.3).
· Upgraded to new version of Torque (v3.3) and Village (v3.3).
· Removed the limit of displaying only 1000 Admin Users in the panel where the users are given roles.
· Product Option and Option Value names have been given a max size of 64 characters and the validation length through the admin app is now configurable.
· Added KK Engine API call, getAllPromotions(), to return all active promotions.
· Made the Enterprise Extensions installer more robust when installing to Community Edition systems with non-default data present.
· Added a new SQL Analysis utility (Enterprise Only) that can provide a quick overview of the SQL performance of the system.
· Added Online Help for Reports Configuration in the Admin App.
· When deleting a GeoZone (or “Tax Area”) using the deleteGeoZone() Admin API call, in order to maintain data integrity, any tax rates that use the specified geoZone are also deleted.
· In the Admin App the date template is now read from the message catalog so that different languages can have different templates. Some of the dates are now shown with hour:minute precision.
· Ability to define the default value for and/or hide the “Requires Coupon” checkbox on the Promotions panel of the Admin App using File-Based Configuration.
Bug fixes:
· Save button sometimes enabled at wrong times on Tax Classes Panel of the Admin App. A minor usability improvement.
· Fixed bug that allowed checkout without selecting a shipping method when using the JSP checkout screens.
January 28th, 2012New Features:
· Introduction of a jQuery plugin enabling you to call the KK Store-Front API from JavaScript AJAX calls. The plugin uses the JSON APIs which are now available in the community version. Documentation available under the doc directory after installation.
· Added possibility to perform faceted product searches using SOLR. The facet attributes can be defined for different types of products using the custom attribute functionality.
· “Miscellaneous Items”, with defined “Miscellaneous Item Types” can now be associated with products and categories (Enterprise Extensions only).
· Added 5 custom fields to the EmailOptions objects to provide greater flexibility in customizing the generation of email messages.
· New CyberSource Hosted Order Post Payment Gateway Module.
· Now bundled with Apache Tomcat 7.0.22 (previously bundled with 6.0.33). Note that this version of tomcat requires a minimum Java version of 1.6.
· A new utility to create encrypted database passwords for the properties files so that they don’t have to be stored in plain text. (Enterprise Extensions only).
· A security feature has been added for the BIRT Viewer. By default this is enabled. With this enabled it is now essential to have a valid sessionId in order to execute a report using the BIRT viewer.
· Upgraded two apache-commons jars (to dbcp-1.4.jar and pool-1.4.jar). These provide various bug-fixes and improved JDBC support.
· Upgraded to allow the hiding of the Edit button on the Orders panel via role-based security.
· Allow the use of a CLOB for the custom attributes column in Oracle so that more than 4000 characters can be used for custom attributes if required.
· Modified the order panel of the Admin App to resize automatically to fit lower resolution displays.
· Replaced unmappable characters from CyberSource java files so that they can be compiled without warnings on platforms where UTF8 is the default encoding.
· Added the option to hide the Print button on the Order Invoice Panel of the Admin App (using file-based configuration).
· Now possible to rename the default store from “store1″ to another name. This is still not recommended practice but possible if required.
· Upload button moved to a new position to allow the Manufacturer’s panel of the Admin App to fit on a smaller screen.
· Centred Admin App dialog boxes using a different technique to place them in more central positions on all platforms.
· Added functionality to the store-front app in order to facilitate SSO by passing customer and session information in a secure way when moving between two different applications using the same engine. i.e. A CMS system to place products in the cart and another system to checkout.
· When inserting a product using the admin app, you can now specify hour:minute precision for the available and expiry dates.
· When inserting a promotion using the admin app, you can now specify hour:minute precision for the start and end dates.
· The select manufacturer and select template dialog boxes in the admin app have been given a double click handler to make a selection.
· Added functionality in the Admin App to facilitate the maintenance of custom attributes. When custom attribute descriptions are modified or deleted, there is now the option to automatically update all of the products using the custom attribute.
· Added last modified date as a search constraint for products in the Admin App API.
· Added File Based Configuration parameters to the Admin App to make the title of the Edit Product panel configurable. You can now decide whether to show the product name, SKU or both.
· Added a File Based Configuration parameter to the Admin App to make the Products panel configurable. You can now decide whether to show the product name or SKU in the first column of the array.
· Added a RichText custom field widget to facilitate data entry for template based custom fields containing lines of text.
· Added an API call to the store-front API to check whether a coupon exists and whether it is active.
· Digital Downloads shipping module now installed by default.
Bug fixes:
· Modified EditAddrBody.jsp to fix bug whereby phone numbers weren’t being displayed and therefore lost when the address was edited.
· When the Admin App is deployed to a webapp with a different name the PDF viewer failed because it was hard-coded to use “/konakartadmin”. The Admin App code now derives the webapp name dynamically.
· Due to changes in the default treatment of escaped strings in PostgreSQL 9.1 the syntax in the database loading scripts (konakart_demo.sql etc) has been modified. Previously the regular expression loaded for the sample custom attribute for date recognition was being imported incorrectly into PostgreSQL 9.1. For users of earlier versions of KonaKart, this can be fixed by running the database upgrade scripts.
· In the Admin App, invisible products weren’t being displayed after having been added as a merchandising link (up sell, cross sell etc.) or as a promotion rule.
· A race condition has been fixed which sometimes caused the deletion of all merchandising links (i.e. Up Sell) to a product when only attempting to delete one.
· When a product is saved, the merchandising drop list in the merchandising panel, no longer resets to “Up Sell”. It keeps the current selection.
· The Category panel in the Admin App wasn’t counting invisible products in the number of products per category.
· Modified encoding for the directory structure SEO URLs in order to remove encoded forward and backward slashes which are not allowed by some app servers for security reasons. Any forward and backward slashes in product, manufacturer or category names are converted to dashes “-” in the SEO URL.
· Increased the size of the products_name attribute in the orders_products table to 256 to match the products_name in the products_description table.
· Updated MyProductMgr.java (in apiexamples) to reflect the latest method signatures.
· Fixed admin app bug when viewing products for manufacturers. The manufacturer constraint wasn’t being set properly when filtering the search results with more constraints.
· The formatting of hour:minute in the edit product panel of the Admin App has been modified to always show two digits for hour and two for minute. The modification affects the definition of special price start and end dates as well as bookable product time slots.
· The option to delete products when deleting a manufacturer or a category, wasn’t deleting invisible products.
Backwards Compatibility Alert:
· With the introduction of tomcat 7 there is now a requirement to use a minimum java version of 1.6 (previously we supported Java 1.5 and above).
· The JSON APIs are now “switched on” after a default installation. The web.xml file of the konakart webapp must be edited in order to disable them.
January 28th, 2012New Features:
· SOLR searches now return facets for categories and manufacturers so that the search results can be filtered using this information.
· Enhanced product search to enable searching for products in multiple categories and for multiple manufacturers.
· Added a new mode for formatting URLs for SEO. The standard format for URLs is now a directory structure containing the SEO data rather than extra attributes.
· Provide access by default to the Velocity EscapeTool to escape output from your Velocity templates (for emails, orders etc).
· Improved functionality of the getRelatedProductsWithOptions() API call of the Application Engine. The improvement is to allow to invert the direction of the related product link. This is especially useful for bundled products, so rather than discovering the products within a bundle, you can determine which bundles a product belongs to.
· Automatic redirect to konakart webapp when the http://localhost:8780/ is used.
· Upgrade of SOLR. KonaKart is now shipped with SOLR 3.4.0.
· Modified updateOrderStatus() API call of Admin App to allow status change using the same status.
· Enterprise Source pack now places the relevant Enterprise-only source files under the custom directory for easier custom ANT building.
· Include the import and export of product tags in the XML_IO utility.
· Allow the definition of translations of module names so that they can be viewed in the currently-selected language in the Admin App.
· Drop lists for promotion types and order statuses are now populated with entries in the currently-selected language in the Admin App.
· Increased the size of the category name to 256 characters.
· Provide more flexibility in defining localisations with the introduction of several new Admin App message properties that can be defined for each language.
Bug fixes:
· The GetBestSellers API call of the App Engine wasn’t returning the special price of a product.
· Allow more than one store to be cloned at the same time.
· Admin App fix to prevent Administrators accessing the kk_store records of stores they are not authorised to access.
· Fix for the Admin App when installing the LDAP module on Oracle when it is the only “Other” module installed.
· Fixed encoding problem when uploading images from the admin app with double byte character names. The name of the image on the file system wasn’t being set correctly.
· When registering / checking out using the one page checkout GWT code the default country in the drop list was not being set to the store country in some browsers.
January 28th, 2012New Features:
· New CyberSource Payment gateway
· New WorldPay XML Redirect Payment gateway
· New Free Gift Order Total Module.
· Added custom fields to order totals.
· Now bundled with Apache Tomcat 6.0.33 (previously bundled with 6.0.18)
· Changes some struts action classes to do a 301 redirect rather than 302 when adding SEO data to the URLs.
· Added an attribute to Order to keep track of who created the order. It is automatically set when logging in to the store-front app as an admin user and creating an order.
· Use version number in GWT nocache.js files to ensure GWT applications (Admin App and components in the Storefront) are updated by browsers after upgrading to new versions.
· Ability to define the default value for and/or hide the “Use Customer Language” checkbox on the Customer Communications panel of the Admin App using File-Based Configuration.
· Modified testDB() API call of Admin App to not return the database connection string and database user. The API call remains backwards compatible but only returns information to determine whether a DB connection can be made.
· If present, use the Order Number for the Invoice Filename rather than the internal Order Id.
Bug fixes:
· One page checkout new customer registration fixed
· Engine was throwing an exception when retrieving a wish list for a temporary customer containing a disabled or nonexistent product.
· Change language wasn’t working properly for the admin app when running within a Liferay Portlet.
January 28th, 2012New Features:
· LDAP module to connect to an LDAP directory in order to validate customer and admin user credentials.
· In Admin app can now search for orders based on customer name, email and postcode in order to search for orders for non registered customers.
· Added the ability to add custom business objects to the Velocity context to make these available for your Velocity templates.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed bug when inserting coupons using the admin app. The times_used attribute was getting set to the value of the coupon selected before the insert.
· In the TaxAreaMapping panel of the Admin App, the Search and Clear buttons were overlapping the border of the search panel in Chrome and FireFox.
· Wrapped the manufacturer name in CDATA when sending a product to the SOLR search engine to avoid having to encode certain characters within the manufacturer name such as the ampersand character.
· Fixed bug in multi-store non shared customers mode. In some cases the categories weren’t being displayed in the categories tab of the edit product panel.
· The Change Language functionality of the admin app wasn’t working correctly when the file based configuration property was set so that the password is never stored in a temporary cookie.
· A fix for the “controversial” new deferred segment creation feature introduced into Oracle 11gR2 (Enterprise Only). Installations failed with this db with the default setting of DEFERRED_SEGMENT_CREATION=TRUE. Now our Oracle scripts set DEFERRED_SEGMENT_CREATION=FALSE on the session to ensure that the installation runs as required.
September 26th, 2011· This is a bug fix release for Version 5.5.0.1. It requires no database changes. A bug has been fixed in the Admin App Liferay Portlet which wasn’t loading the GWT JavaScript due to a naming error.
September 8th, 2011· This is a bug fix release for Version 5.5.0.0. It requires no database changes. A bug has been fixed which didn’t allow new customers to register when using the GWT one page checkout code in the store-front application.
August 4th, 2011New Features:
· Introduced Bookable Products functionality to cater for products such as courses.
· Added functionality to the admin app to allow you to manage catalog prices and quantities.
· Added an “Active” attribute to the Country objects allowing you to mark countries as “Active” or “Inactive”.
· Repeat Order functionality of the store-front application now repeats the billing and delivery addresses rather than just presenting the default ones.
· Made the product type search droplist (Admin App Products Panel) configurable using the Hidden Product Types configuration variable.
· New Payment Gateways Added: Barclaycard SmartPay Hosted and Barclaycard SmartPay API (both with 3D-Secure capability).
· The “sessionId” parameter has been added to the URL when reports are run from the Reports panel of the Admin App. This allows you to authenticate the user by checking the sessionId (this is the KonaKart SessionId). The sessionId has also been added to the “Status Page Report URL” that is displayed in a frame on the “My Store Status Panel”.
· In the product listing view of the Admin App, only show the special price if it is enabled.
· In the Returned Products panel of the Admin App, a new Return can now be inserted by entering the order number rather than the order id.
Bug fixes:
· Added Order by Rating constraints to Solr mgr for retrieving products.
· Fixed a bug in the XML_IO utility where a property was referred to as “mesaages” rather than “messages”.
· Calendar Pop-up bug fixed where the wrong date was being selected (when 31/5/2011 was clicked on, 1/5/2011 was actually selected).
· Fixed a bug where in the admin app where the image servlet url was hard coded when uploading manufacturer and category images.
· Fixed a bug in the admin app where sorting products by price was generating an exception when using MS SQL.
· The tep_cfg_pull_down_order_statuses( set_function wasn’t working properly in every store in multi-store mode with non-shared customers. This bug caused order status droplists to be empty in some of the stores. Now fixed.
· Fixed a start-up race condition where configuration variables could be accessed before they were initialised.
· When the admin app was integrated with Liferay and the KonaKart session was timing out before the Liferay session, an exception was being thrown.
· Installer defaulted to mysql when installing the Enterprise Extensions in engine Mode 1 (multi-store multi-datbase mode). Now the wizard presents a database type choice to allow the user to override this default.
January 19th, 2011New Features:
· New “Buy X Get Y Free” Promotion Module
· New “Pick up in Store” Shipping Module
· Added drop shipper support by associating addresses to products. Manufacturers can also now have multiple addresses. The Admin App has been enhanced to manage multiple addresses for Customers, Products and Manufacturers.
· Modified Order Total object to accommodate an array of order totals. This allows each product discount to have its own line item in the order. i.e. An order total module may return an array of results.
· Added invisible attribute and search field to a zone object. Also added functionality to allow to set the zone during registration and address change. Changes should allow better handling of the cases where a US state contains multiple tax zones.
· Added custom fields to the digital download object and app API calls to get and edit an object.
· Added functionality to update store front message catalogs when a refresh cache command is sent from the admin app. When upgrading, a change must be made to the struts-config.xml to enable this functionality.
· Added a multi-lingual description field to the category object.
· Added possibility of creating a wish list even when a customer is not logged in.
· Added possibility of limiting the number of times a promotion is used by a customer.
· The getProduct() API call of the app engine now returns an array of ProductQuantity objects for each product, which contain the SKU for the product variation as well as quantity in stock information.
· Added a new method to the Shipping Module Interface designed for the purpose of integrating KonaKart with 3rd Party Shipping Applications. An example is provided for UPS WorldShip which uses the Auto-Import feature to import Orders from KonaKart.
· When creating a new store dynamically using “Clone Store” in the Admin App a check is made (in the background) that the new store name chosen does not already exist.
· New exportOrder API call for exporting orders in various ways which can be specified in an options parameter. One option is to export the full order as XML.
· Now possible to specify which product types will appear on the product types droplist on the edit product panel of the Admin App. This is done by defining which product types you wish to hide in a new configuration variable on the ‘Admin App Configuration’ panel.
· A small number of configuration parameters have been moved to different sections to arrange them in more logical groups.
· Dialog displaying error messages in the Admin App now uses a vertical scrollbar making it easier to view very long exception messages.
· Added product quantity as a criteria to the product search object.
· Each server engine instance now has a thread for refreshing cached data. Previously the refresh API call was made from the client engine and so this functionality wasn’t available when the client engine wasn’t deployed.
· Added extra hooks to the KKAppEng to intercept when the config variables are cached and when the temporary data caches are refreshed.
· New Admin App API calls to set / get product prices in external table to support multiple catalogs.
· New Admin App and App API calls to set / get product quantity in external table to support multiple catalogs.
· Upgraded the KonaKart installer to version 1.2.15 of InstallJammer
· New set of getConfigurationValue(key) API calls for KKEngIf that get the configuration value for the specified key (get as Integer, Bool, etc).
· Better error reporting when configuration variables cannot be converted into integers or decimal values – resolves start-up problems which could result with misconfigured Shipping modules.
· Added page links to page through products in the store front application. Previously paging was only possible using Next and Previous links.
· Added image upload buttons to Category and Manufacturer panels in the Admin App.
· Added a review maintenance panel to the Admin App and Review States to allow reviews to be approved before being published.
· Now possible to store the application messages in the database or in the current message properties files (which remains the default). New kkMessages utility provided to load messages from message properties files into the database. New Admin App “Messages” panel added for the live maintenance of this messages. See User Guide for details.
· A number of improvements in the handling of files used in the system with respect to correct use of file encoding.
· Extracted the KonaKart logo from the previous image resource bundle to make it easier to add your own company logo to the Admin App.
· Modified the admin app to add paging for manufacturers and product options in order to better support large product catalogs.
· Upgraded to BIRT 2.6.1
· Bug fixes – Application
· Some promotion modules weren’t applying the rule properly for applying the promotion only after a minimum number of products are ordered.
· Sort by “times ordered” was not implemented for SOLR searches.
· All of the modules (shipping, payment, promotion) have been made multi-store ready. Previously they shared some static variables which didn’t allow each store to set them independently.
· Wish list management wasn’t functioning correctly when products were being added using the store front application in different languages.
· If all categories had last modified date set to null, the category tree cache was never used, so reducing performance.
· When using external prices, the option prices were never being shown as negative.
· Bug fixes – Admin App
· Tree view of ProductOptionsPanel now remains open on the node edited or inserted.
· Templates used to display invoices, packing slips etc are now selected based on the currently-selected language of the Admin App rather than the default language of the store.
· Panels for setting product quantity and availability date were not working when product was invisible.
· Translation of labels and floatover text now possible for the non-standard Promotion-Type-specific configuration fields. This only affected a small number of promotion configuration fields.
· Clone Store operation checks supplied credentials before commencing the creation of a new store preventing the creation of partially-completed stores.
· Transaction errors did not cause rollbacks in all circumstances when saving customer objects in the Admin engine.
· Some panels were never showing invisible products regardless of the setting of the configuration variable.
· Entry in specials table wasn’t getting deleted when the product was deleted.
· Admin App panel for configuring bundled products wasn’t working correctly when one of the bundled products was itself a bundle.
· Problem displaying invoices from stores other than store1 in multi-store configuration.
· Bug fixes – XML_IO Importer / Exporter
· Configuration Parameters no longer lose their sort order attributes when exporting
· Fixed a null pointer exception that occurred if wishlists with no items were imported
June 16th, 2010New Features:
· Reward point functionality has been added so that customers can be awarded points for buying products, registering, writing reviews etc. These points can be redeemed during the checkout process and a customer can view a statement of his recent point transactions after logging in. An administrator can manage a customer’s points.
· Support for recurring billing. Payment Schedule and Subscription objects have been introduced to support recurring billing natively using a KonaKart batch or through a payment gateway that manages the billing process at regular intervals.
· Invoices can now be created in PDF format and can also be attached to order confirmation emails. Invoices can also be viewed from both the storefront application and the Admin App.
· Added a number of extra custom attributes to the product object including integers and decimals. All fields can be used for searching and sorting. Expiry date has also been added.
· Added extra telephone numbers and eMail addresses to the billing and shipping addresses. These new attributes are visible to the address formatter.
· The language of the store front application is saved in a cookie so that even non logged in customers return to the application in their preferred language.
· Added a locale attribute to customers and orders to allow emails, especially from the admin app to be sent out in the correct language rather than the default store language.
· WYSIWYG editor added to the Admin App for editing product descriptions.
· Upgraded to Google GWT 2.0
· Added search rules for searching for products and other objects through the application and admin app APIs. The rules allow you to easily define whether and where, wild cards should be added. The admin app has a new properties file where default wild card settings can be defined for the various panels within the admin app.
· Added a refresh button to the reports panel of the Admin App
· If a logging properties file isn’t found on the classpath, rather than giving a null exception, KonaKart now initializes the log4j system with a set of default logging properties.
· Country objects returned by the getAllCountries() API call are now fully populated.
· Eclipse project supplied for customizing the One Page Checkout GWT code
· Now possible to set the first day of the week on the Calendar Popup widget to a chosen day.
· Made it possible to internationalize the few remaining aspects of the Admin App. To take advantage of these you will have to update your AdminMessages_XX.properties file for your own locales.
· Now possible for a customer to use a gift certificate and a promotion code at the same time.
· Added new Struts Validator to the store-front application to avoid XSS injection during the submission of forms.
· Added a drop list and upload button to the customer communications panel of the Admin App to allow you to select templates and upload new ones. The templates are now stored in a different directory for each store in a multi-store environment.
· Modified the Edit Product panel in the Admin App to make it easier and more intuitive to upload images. Also added upload button for digital downloads.
· Improved I18N for the Admin App to allow decimal numbers such as prices to be inserted using other characters as a decimal point. i.e. a comma.
· Added order number to the returns panel of the admin app to allow you to search for returns based on the order number and not just the order id.
· Added a configuration variable in order to automatically enable a product when its quantity is changed to a value greater than 0 through the admin app API.
· Upgraded to version 1.4 of Solr.
· A new mode of operation is available for the Edit Customer panel of the Admin App to allow you to define that certain roles may edit only “external” customer details. This is useful for the cases where customers are actually managed outside of KonaKart. It makes it possible for the Admin User to edit only the Customer Group, the Newsletter subscription, the state (enabled/disabled) and the customer type (admin/customer/default).
· Added a configuration variable that controls whether customer Ids are displayed on the edit customer panel. Customer Ids are now shown as floatover text on the Customers Panel.
· New eWay Australia payment gateway module added.
· Product importer/exporter modified to import and export using UTF-8 encoding.
· Improvements to the installer - automatic discovery of current java environment improved and extra validation to check the selected java runtime environment is valid.
Bug fixes - Application:
· Added a timestamp to paging links to avoid paging expired result sets that may be accessed by using the browser back button.
· Fixed a bug when searching for products using Solr. Products under multiple categories being searched for “by category” were not being found.
Bug fixes - Admin App:
· Links on the right hand side of the status page weren’t working.
· edit review and delete review links on Edit Product panel weren’t working
Backwards Compatibility Alert:
· The velocity templates are no longer stored directly under the WEB-INF/classes directory. They are now stored under the installation home directory in a /templates/store_id/ directory structure where store_id is the id of the store and defaults to store1 in a single store environment. It is possible to move these to any other location so long as you update the TEMPLATE_BASE_DIRECTORY to point at the new location.
· In addition to moving the velocity templates, they are all (those from the konakart and konakartadmin webapps) now grouped together in the same location. This resulted in a conflict of names where the EmailNewPassword_en.vm existed in both the konakart and the konakartadmin webapps. Therefore the one from konakartadmin has been renamed to be EmailNewPasswordAdmin_en.
January 13th, 2010New Features:
· The store front application has been re-worked to give it a more modern look and feel including multiple images per product. The icons of the Admin App have also been replaced to give a fresher look.
· Internationalization - The language of the admin app may now be changed dynamically.
· The Enterprise version of KonaKart now contains sophisticated marketing functionality that allows you to capture customer data as the customer uses your KonaKart eCommerce store; and to use that data within complex expressions in order to show dynamic content, activate promotions and send eMail communications.
· Gift Certificates are now supported. Gift Certificate products may be connected to any type of promotion and activated through a coupon code contained within the certificate.
· New functionality to allow digital download products (.txt and .pdf) to be indexed in the SOLR search engine so that they may be found by doing a product search using search keywords.
· New snippet functionality that returns text fragments surrounding search keywords so that the context of the search result can be determined. Useful especially for indexed digital download documents.
· The Enterprise version of KonaKart allows products to have an unlimited number of prices based on a product catalog id.
· A KonaKart product now has an average rating attribute that can be used in a search filter and to order the products returned. A batch job is supplied to set the average rating based on all of the reviews present for a product.
· Added dateAvailable to the search constraints for products.
· Tag and Tag Group Maintenance has been moved to the Products section of the Admin App. Also a new Marketing section has been added.
· Custom Validation enhanced for the Admin App to include a wider selection of attributes.
· Added API calls to allow the paging of wish list and gift registry items.
· Added a shipping discount promotion.
· Added an EmailIntegrationMgr which provides a hook to allow you to look up an eMail address from an external system.
· Ability to specify whether or not to use wildcard flags and a LIKE or EQUALS search when searching for customers based on their email address (Admin API).
· Module parameters can now be masked from clear view (i.e. they show "******") in the Admin App with the setting of "password" as the set_function in the configuration table.
· New MoneyBookers payment gateway module added
· The getSpecialsPerCategory() API call (app and admin app) has been given an extra attribute to determine whether or not to search within sub categories.
· The product search object has been given an extra attribute to configure whether the description should be returned for each product.
· The Velocity template engine can now be configured through an external properties file.
· Upgraded to Google GWT 1.7.
Bug Fixes-Admin App:
· Mail subject is now encoded into UTF-8.
· Products in multiple categories are no longer deleted when deleting one of their categories. Also they are not moved to the parent category if they belong to another category.
· Upload of product images in Shared Customers mode wasn't working properly.
· Bug fixed in updateConfigurationGroup Admin API call where booleans were not handled correctly (this call was not actually used in KonaKart prior to 4.2.0.0).
Bug Fixes-App:
· Mail subject is now encoded into UTF-8.
· The HTML escaping of reviews (when being inserted) was escaping too many characters, making the review un-readable from the admin app. Now only the
· standard HTML control characters are being escaped (i.e. , &, ", ').
· Modified a divide operation in the saveOrder method call to avoid an exception during the customization of KonaKart if order prices were being modified without specifying the scale.
· The category tile was sometimes showing the incorrect category when viewing the details of a product that belongs to multiple categories.
· When showing products belonging directly to a parent category that has also sub categories, the manufacturer drop list selector was showing the manufacturers of the products in the sub categories and not those of the products in the parent category.
· The manufacturer filter drop list was not being reset when transitioning from viewing a category with products that have multiple manufacturers, to a category that has no products.
· Validation added to check for valid Country Ids when adding an address to a customer
· Coupon codes are now stored in the session so only have to be entered once.
· Secret key generation for asynchronous payment modules now works for load balanced systems.
· The quantity of a bundled product was not being calculated correctly.
Bug Fixes / Enhancements - Importer / Exporter:
· Custom Validation settings defined for the Admin App are also used during imports.
· Improved support for the loading of larger data sets.
· Improved matching of records to avoid import of duplicate records.
· Support added for import and export of WishLists and WishList Items.
· Support added for all newly-added entities supported in XML_IO utility (including Customer Tags, Expressions etc).
· Bug fixed in the import of ConfigurationGroups - it was creating duplicates.
Backwards Compatibility Alert:
· The application and admin application method getSpecialsPerCategory() has been given an extra attribute in order to search or not search within sub categories.
· The PaymentInfo object no longer contains a Secret Key attribute. The method to generate a secret key is now called directly from the payment module when required.
January 13th, 2010New Features:
· Added shared products mode to multi-store. This feature allows you to add a product to multiple stores but only have to manage one copy of the product in the admin app. The product price may differ between the stores.
· KonaKart now supports Gift Registries. An implementation for wedding lists has been added to the store front appplication.
· All client side exceptions shown to the customer are now also logged.
· New API call to retrieve Categories to Tag Groups.
· Save button enabled in Admin App without the need to tab off fields. Improves consistency of behaviour across all panels of the Admin App.
· Added USPS and USPS International payment gateways
· Various improvements to the XML Import/Export feature providing greater flexibility in defining which objects to import/export (Enterprise Extensions only). Additional command line arguments have been made available with some example scripts to demonstrate the new features.
Bug Fixes-Admin App:
· Fixed Calendar widget so that it expands to 6 rows where required.
· A number of minor bugs fixed where search filters and back buttons were being lost under certain conditions
Bug Fixes-App:
· Fixed a bug where breadcrumbs were never resetting. It could be reproduced by clicking the add address button in the My Accounts section and then the back button.
· The assignment of zones to payment and shipping gateways was not working properly. The defined zone was not being detected. Now for example, you may want to assign a USA zone to the USPS gateway so that it doesn't get called for non US destinations.
January 13th, 2010New Features:
· Upgraded to Axis 1.4
· 3 custom fields added to zones table
· Support for multi-currency. A customer can now view and search for products in a currency different to the default currency.
· Added cookie management to remember guests and their cart contents even if they haven't registered.
· Added many extra Application API calls that include an extra "options object". The purpose of this object is to pass the catalog id to the eCommerce engine so that the product manager may be specialized to retrieve the product price and quantity from an external source based on the catalog id.
· Enhanced product select dialogs in Admin App. Can now include extra attributes based on a template and can search by SKU as well as by a keyword.
· Added an API call to the Admin App called setProductQuantity() and getProductQuantity() to change the quantity of a product without having to retrieve the product, edit it and save it. A panel has also been added to enable power users to perform this action efficiently.
· Added custom fields to the session table.
· Two new API calls, addCustomDataToSession() and getCustomDataFromSession() have been added to the Admin App and Application APIs.
· Added the ability to retrieve customers using custom fields as search criteria.
· Added a Date Available attribute to the Products_quantity table so that each product variation can have a different available date.
· Added an API call to the Admin App called setProductAvailability() and getProductAvailability() to change the available date of a product without having to retrieve the product, edit it and save it. A panel has also been added to enable power users to perform this action efficiently.
· Added the last modified date to an Admin Product. The creation and last modified dates are now visible from the Admin App.
· For digital download products, added a Max Number of Downloads attribute and a Max Number of Download days attribute. If set, these values override the global values set using configuration variables.
· Added a Stock Reorder Level attribute to each product object. If set, this value overrides the global value set using a configuration variable.
· Custom Validation enhanced for the Admin App to include a wider selection of attributes
· Added an order tracking attribute to the order object. Added extra callouts to the OrderIntegrationMgr to edit the order before it is saved and a specific one to add the tracking order before the order is saved.
· Added a "Can Order When Not In Stock" attribute to each product. If set, these values override the global values set using configuration variables.
· Added an invisible attribute to categories so that they do not appear in the application when invisible.
· Added SKU attribute to Basket and OrderProduct objects.
· Added State attribute to OrderProduct that defines the availability state of the product when the order is created.
· Scheduling feature added (Enterprise Extensions only) using Quartz. Includes three batch jobs: RemoveExpiredCustomers, UnpaidOrderNotification and ProductAvailabilityNotification.
· Added the ability to clone stores in a multi-store configuration (Enterprise Extensions only)
· New BIRT report - ProductsToReorder.
· Added support to integrate the KonaKart Admin App into Liferay.
Bug Fixes-Admin App:
· Sorting by "Logons" and "Last Logon" gives an error with Oracle.
· Non registered customers are no longer displayed in the customers section. These are created when KonaKart is configured to allow checkout without registration; and were being inadvertently displayed in the customer list. A parameter has been added to the AdminCustomerSearch object in order to programmably display or not display the non registered customers.
· The printing of the order invoice and packing slip wasn't working.
· Fix to the SQL generated to set correct URL values for the default chart on the status page of the Admin App. (Only a problem on Linux with DB2, Oracle and MSSQL)
· Fix to the SQL generated to remove quotes around floating point values in currency inserts. (Only a problem with Oracle databases that do not convert strings such as '1.306' to floats correctly).
· Corrections to two BIRT reports (only a problem under Oracle, DB2 and MS SQL). TopCustomers.rptdesign and TopProductsList.rptdesign.
· Fix to admin app to display prices when comma is selected as the decimal point.
· Customer type search attribute not working in getCustomers() and getCustomersLite() API calls.
Bug Fixes-App:
· Changed the message catalog to remove the text : I am a returning customer. If you have already shopped at our store but never registered, please click on the Password Forgotten link below and we'll send you a password. A non registered customer needs to go through the registration process so the text is wrong.
· getCurrencies() API call was not using search criteria correctly.
Bug Fixes Google Base Interface:
· Update required due to a change in the Googe Base API. This fixes the "You must specify an id for an item" error message.
Backwards Compatibility Alert:
· The application API call getProductQuantity(String encodedProductId) now returns a ProductQuantityIf object rather than an int. The reason is to return the Date Available as well as the quantity.
January 13th, 2010Bug Fixes-Admin App:
· Fix to the SQL generated to set correct URL values for the default chart on the status page of the Admin App. (Only a problem on Linux with DB2, Oracle and MSSQL)
· Fix to the SQL generated to remove quotes around floating point values in currency inserts. (Only a problem with Oracle databases that do not convert strings such as '1.306' to floats correctly).
· Corrections to two BIRT reports (only a problem under Oracle, DB2 and MS SQL). TopCustomers.rptdesign and TopProductsList.rptdesign.
· Sorting by "Logons" and "Last Logon" gives an error with Oracle.
· Print of packing slip and order invoice wasn't working.
· Fix to admin app to display prices when comma is selected as the decimal point.
Bug Fixes-App:
· Changed the message catalog to remove the text : I am a returning customer. If you have already shopped at our store but never registered, please click on the Password Forgotten link below and we'll send you a password. A non registered customer needs to go through the registration process so the text is wrong.
Bug Fixes Google Base Interface:
· Update required due to a change in the Googe Base API. This fixes the "You must specify an id for an item" error message.
February 3rd, 2009· KonaKart engines have new constructors to cater for multi-store functionality. In some cases the old constructors have been deprecated.
· SetConfigurationValue() in the Admin API has changed. This now requires an extra parameter. The extra parameter is the session Id. This has been modified to ensure that changes to configuration values are only made by callers with a valid sessionId. (SessionIds are returned from successful logins).
· For security reasons, the default installation of KonaKart disables the web service interfaces. Look at the on line documentation for instructions on how to enable these interfaces.
May 29th, 2008· Added support for bundles. Bundle products can be defined in the Admin App. The quantity of the bundle product is calculated automatically and tools are provided to calculate the cost (optionally using discounts) and the weight.
· In the application, the bundled products are available in the product detail screen, the quantity available is calculated and the quantity in stock of the bundled products is decremented automatically when an order is processed.
· Added product tags and tag groups to enable detailed product searches based on the tags. Tag groups can be linked to a category in order to display them in a context sensitive manner. i.e. You could link a "Food Type" tag group to a restaurant category in order to select only restaurants that serve vegetarian dishes or spicy food etc.
· Added an application feature whereby any previous order can be repeated with a single click.
· New customization framework for modifying / supplementing the KonaKart engine behavior. This provides hooks that are easy to program that allow you to customize the KonaKart engines.
Two new API calls on both the Application API and the Admin App API:
· String custom(String input1, String input2)
· String customSecure(String sessionId, String input1, String input2)
· These allow you to add your own engine interfaces to enhance the behavior of the KonaKart engines.
· Added 10 custom panels that display a predefined URL in a frame. This feature allows you to extend the Admin App by adding your own administration functionality outside the standard Admin App.
· Added the ability to program a button on the Admin App Returns Panel to call your own custom URL.
· An example of its use could be to call an application that processes credit card refunds through the payment gateway.
· When AdminOrderProducts are returned by the Admin API they now have the optionId and valueId attributes of the options populated, and not just the name and value.
· UTF-8 encoding now used for the mail sent out from the Email command in the Admin App allowing double-byte characters to be used in customer emails.
· The product search functionality in the Admin App has been enhanced.
· Added new method addToBasketWithOptions(). Currently there is one option that allows you force a product into a new basket item even if an identical product already exists. The default behaviour is to just update the quantity of the existing item.
· Added new method createOrderWithOptions(). Currently there is one option that allows you to automatically copy all of the basket custom fields to the orderProduct custom fields which are generated from the basket items.
· Added custom fields to cartItem.
· In the Admin App added a button to select the customer from the orders panel.
· KonaKart version number and build date has added to the meta data in the Admin App (KonakartAdmin.html file) - this provides a convenient way to find out which version you are running.
· Fixed bug to clear the order history list when a customer logs out.
· Fixed array out of bounds exception when there were no categories in the system.
· getShippingQuote() was throwing a null pointer exception if the shipping module didn�t exist.
· getPaymentDetails() was throwing a null pointer exception if the payment module didn�t exist.
· UpdateBasket was not updating the custom fields.
· When the session was timing out, the user was receiving an exception in the application.
March 20th, 2008· Added a new API call to com.konakart.al.ProductMgr to allow you to set the default order_by for API calls that retrieve arrays of products. Previously the default was set to "Order by price ascending" and not configurable.
· Added EditOrder(), a new API call for the Admin API. It allows you to edit some order attributes.
· Enriched the functionality of the Admin API call, getOrders(), to allow you to search by Custom fields, Date Added and Date Finished.
· In the Admin App when uploading an image, the directory will now be created if it doesn't already exist.
· Added a hook to allow custom credential checking during Login. This allows a company implementing KonaKart to develop their own credential checking algorithms rather than to use the standard KonaKart implementation. It can also be used to achieve Single Sign On and to connect to an LDAP directory.
· Added a new API call to the AdminEng to return the top level categories.
· Added configuration variables to specify whether you want a wildcard ('%') placed before or after text that is entered for searches in the Admin App. The default will be the pre-2.2.4.0 behaviour of adding wildcard search characters before and after all eneterd search text.
· Included "Packing List" and "Invoice" buttons as part of the role-based security system - allows you to enable or disable these buttons in role definitions. The default setting is pre-2.2.4.0 behaviour which is to enable both buttons.
· The lastModified attribute of an order was not being updated when the status of the order was changed through the Admin API. Fixed
· The back button from the edit product panel wasn't always working after uploading an image. Fixed
· The getCustomers() API call wasn't instantiating the last modified date for the customer objects. Fixed
· Unable to control the visibility of the Reset Password button on the Customers Window. Fixed
· Fixed bug to allow the DataDescriptor to be set to null for most API calls that retrieve products and reviews. The Javadoc was already reporting this behaviour although the engine was throwing an exception when finding a null value.
January 23rd, 2008· Support for JSR 168 portlet specification to enable you to run KonaKart within a portlet.
· Checkout without registration
· Added customer notifications to the Admin App. You can send template based eMails to all customers, to all customers who have requested to receive the newsletter and to customers that have asked to be notified about any updates for a particular product.
· UPS shipping module
· Build kit to produce JSR-168 compliant portlet WAR
· When the state of an order is changed through the Admin API / Admin App, a unique email velocity template can be defined for each order state.
· Added the functionality to order products in the application API using the custom fields.
· Added the functionality to search for products in the application API using the custom fields.
· Added functionality to AdminCustomerSearch to search for customers with newsletter and notified products
· All Application API calls that return an array of products now return all custom fields.
· Previously only custom1 and custom2 were returned.
· New interfaces for the Admin API: setCustomerPassword, insertProductNotification, deleteProductNotification and getCustomerForEmail
· Added custom fields to OrderProduct and Basket objects.
· Improvements to the JavaDoc
· One page checkout code and build file included in KonaKart download packages
December 7th, 2007· Redesign of UI to make it more skin-friendly. KonaKart now comes with 4 different skins.
· Capability to add additional mail properties in a new configuration file. This allows you, for example, to use SMTPS mail gateways with authentication, and at defined ports.
· Configurable log file directory for storage of diagnostic log files.
· Two new payment gateways: YourPay and PayJunction
· Tax Rates, Tax Areas and Tax Classes - No Save button on inserts after deleting all records
· Edit Product, Edit Manufacturer, Edit Category were showing incorrect language data a language was deleted without deleting the descriptions for this language.
· Delete product. The product is now deleted from all customer's baskets.
· Tax wasn't being calculated for the All Countries and All zones cases.
· Filter by manufaturer wasn't working when selecting all manufacturers after having filtered by a single manufacturer.
· Orders could not be saved for Countries with names longer than 32 characters. (A database error inherited from osCommerce)
· Orders_Product Model_Name column increased to 64 characters to match orders table.
October 22nd, 2007· Configurable Auditing for Admin App
· Role-based security for Admin App
· AJAX components upgraded to use the latest GWT release (1.4.60) - provides greater stability and significant performance gains
· Support for digital downloads
· Added many configuration variables for enabling sending of emails (registration, order confirmation etc.) rather than one global on / off variable.
· Added multiple image support for a product. Every product now supports 4 images.
· Added a data comparison field to products. This should contain structured data (i.e. XML) so that many similar products can be compared, feature by feature.
· Reports configuration menu re-instated.
· Returns panel stored incorrect item quantity under certain conditions.
September 7th, 2007· Admin App is now fully internationalized and can be translated through a message catalog.
· Addition of an import / export tool to allow import and export of product data from a file.
· Addition of two new payment gateways (USA ePay and Authorize.net). The credit card details are entered directly into a KonaKart JSP rather than redirecting to a page belonging to the gateway.
· Addition of a returns section to the Admin App to manage product returns.
· Through the admin app you can configure a new URL for when switching to SSL.
· The previous version only allowed you to configure a new port.
· Increased products_model column from varchar(12) to varchar(64)
· Fix: FireFox always used to give an error during product image upload although the upload was working.
· Fix: searchForIpnHistory Admin API function caused SQL error on DB2.
· Fix: Velocity engine was opening and never closing a file handle to the log file every time KonaKart was calling it. The new default condition is to have no velocity logging.
· Backwards Compatibility Alert: The AdminIpnSearch class has changed (orderId changed from String to int). This is used in the searchForIpnHistory Admin API call. Any uses of AdminIpnSearch will need to be updated.
July 12th, 2007· Implementation of AJAX based One Page Checkout functionality
· Added support for DB2 and MS SQL Server
· Added advanced SEO features
· Clickable more detailed breadcrumbs
· Added a callback class that gets called whenever an order is made by a customer or when the state of an order changes due to an event such as a payment gateway callback.
· Installer now checks your database connection and, optionally, initialises your database ready to use KonaKart
· Added a KonaKart news feed to the Admin App
June 5th, 2007· Promotions / Coupons / Merchandising
· Oracle Support
May 7th, 2007· Reporting added to KonaKart through the integration of BIRT, the popular Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool.
· Enable / Disable http / https communication, and define port numbers through Admin App. No longer need section in web.xml
· Email sent to warn of low stock level.
· Added feature to allow editing of configuration files from the Admin App.
· Fix: Reviews weren't being deleted when a product was deleted.
· Fix: The category tree in the categories tile wasn't getting updated with the current category when a product was clicked on in order to view the product details.
· Fix: Application forms weren't using UTF-8 encoding.
· Fix: eMail templates and the eMail engine weren't using UTF-8 encoding.
March 24th, 2007· This is a significant new release that includes the KonaKart Administration Application.
February 13th, 2007· Modified the value stored in the final_price attribute of the orders_products table. It was being saved as the product price ( options) multiplied by the quantity. Now it is saved as product price ( options). The change was made for osCommerce compatibility.
· Implemented logic to use expiration date and status of Specials.
· Made refresh interval for client side caches (random special, random review, random new product) programmable using the configuration CLIENT_CACHE_UPDATE_SECS.
· Fixed bug that created error when there were no specials or no reviews.
· Modified algorithm for searching for the state in the list of Zones. The previous algorithm was picking out the incorrect zone in some occasions.
February 2nd, 2007· New configuration parameter to define the name of the velocity log file
· During the order process, the zone wasn't appearing in the formatted addresses when the zone was in the database.
· The number of decimal places of the tax rate shown on the checkout confirmation page has been reduced to 2.
· The url_clicked and date_last_clicked attributes of the manufacturers_info table, are now being updated when a user clicks on the manufacturer link to view the home page.
· When registering or adding / editing an address, the state is checked, and a drop list of valid states is provided if they exist in the DB and if the entered state is invalid.
· Support for PostgreSQL 8.2 . A table creation and population script is included in this version.
· Fixed a bug to display the list of bestsellers properly in the UI.
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