TOT-3423 - Settings to force users to enter the minimum/maximum number of characters within product attribute search fields
When product attribute search forms are set up to show text boxes that allow users to partially match products with assigned attribute values, there is now the ability to force users to enter a minimum number of characters into the attribute text boxes. Within the Administration Centre, under the Inventory menu, in the Search Profiles interface, when modify a Product Search Attribute profile, in the Assign Search Attribute dialog there are following two following fields will display when the "Display Attribute Values As" drop down is set to Textbox:
Minimum Character Length: Set the minimum number of characters that must be set in the textbox by a user. Leave empty to set no limit.
Maximum Character Length: Set the maximum number of characters that can be set in the textbox by a user. Leave empty to set no limit.
Within the Product Search Form content managed web page areas, as well as the search form displayed on the Home, and Product Search Results pages within the trade interface, if an product search attribute form is displayed with a textbox that contains the character limits, then the error message will display if the user has not entered the minimum number of characters.
Functionality Affected: Trade interface Home Page, Product Search Results Page, Product Search Form content managed web page area Impact: Normal
TOT-3428 - When a guest user submits a comment on a news/blog item, allow them to receive Email notifications when other users comment
On a content managed web page containing a "News Comment Form" area after a guest user makes a comment against a news/blog item, if then a logged in user makes a comment against the news/blog item, the original guest user will receive an email notification if they had given their email address when first making a comment (and the guest user is set to allow receiving of email notifications). Note that a guest user who submitted a comment will not cause email notifications to be sent to other users except administrators. This is to ensure that spamming software cannot send out thousands of emails using the commenting feature.
Functionality Affected: News Comment Form content managed web page area Impact: Normal
TOT-3430 - Hook in Customer Account Listing content managed web page area formats that contains the total number of contracts
On a content managed web page that displays a Customer Account Listing area, within its Customer Account Contract Listing Header and Customer Account Contract Listing Footer formats a new hook "contract_records_total_count" has been added that displays the total number of contract records that can be display in the area.
Functionality Affected: News Comment Form content managed web page area Impact: Normal
TOT-3431 - Show user Login ID for each payment record within Payments administration centre interface
Within the Administration Centre, under the Stores menu, within the Payments interface, in the View Payments tab, the payment table now contains a column that shows the login ID of the user who submitted the payment. Additionally the login ID of the user also shows within the Payment Details dialog. This allows administrators to see which user submitted the payment, both when payment for orders, invoices, or custom credit card payments.
Functionality Affected: Payments administration centre interface. Impact: Normal
TOT-3432 - Hooks to show the meta title, description and keywords of news/blog items within content managed web page areas
On a content managed web page displaying either a News Group Blogs/Items Listing or News/Blog Item area the following hooks have been added to the News/Blog Item Record format:
news_blog_meta_title: Title of the the news/blog item displayed within the title of a web page
news_blog_meta_description: Description of the news/blog item hidden within the meta data of a web page.
news_blog_meta_keywords: Keywords of the news/blog item hidden within the meta data of a web page used for search engines to understand the context of the webpage.
These hooks allows the item's meta data that is hidden within a content managed web page to be shown directly to the user. It is important to note that the news/blog item's meta data will still be embedded within the content managed web pages, so when setting this meta data it is important to understand that it will be seen by search engines/crawlers, and should be set in a way that help search engine rankings.
Functionality Affected: News Group Blogs/Items Listing and News/Blog Item content managed web page areas Impact: Normal
Bug Fixes
TOT-3422 - Unable to select global area to display as pop up when using a global area to trigger the popup
On a content managed webpage containing any global website area, when create a popup for these areas, in the Popup Details dialog there was no ability to assign a global container to the area. Within the Administration centre, under the Websites menu, within the Websites interface, after navigating to the Web Page Editor interface, within the Set Popup Container dialog the Global Web Area Container drop down now correctly displays all Global Webpage Containers when the popup is being assigned to a global web page area.
Functionality Affected: Global content managed web page areas Impact: Normal
27th September 2016
Improvements
TOT-3423 - Settings to force users to enter the minimum/maximum number of characters within product attribute search fields
When product attribute search forms are set up to show text boxes that allow users to partially match products with assigned attribute values, there is now the ability to force users to enter a minimum number of characters into the attribute text boxes.
Within the Administration Centre, under the Inventory menu, in the Search Profiles interface, when modify a Product Search Attribute profile, in the Assign Search Attribute dialog there are following two following fields will display when the "Display Attribute Values As" drop down is set to Textbox:
- Minimum Character Length: Set the minimum number of characters that must be set in the textbox by a user. Leave empty to set no limit.
- Maximum Character Length: Set the maximum number of characters that can be set in the textbox by a user. Leave empty to set no limit.
Within the Product Search Form content managed web page areas, as well as the search form displayed on the Home, and Product Search Results pages within the trade interface, if an product search attribute form is displayed with a textbox that contains the character limits, then the error message will display if the user has not entered the minimum number of characters.Functionality Affected: Trade interface Home Page, Product Search Results Page, Product Search Form content managed web page area
Impact: Normal
TOT-3428 - When a guest user submits a comment on a news/blog item, allow them to receive Email notifications when other users comment
On a content managed web page containing a "News Comment Form" area after a guest user makes a comment against a news/blog item, if then a logged in user makes a comment against the news/blog item, the original guest user will receive an email notification if they had given their email address when first making a comment (and the guest user is set to allow receiving of email notifications).
Note that a guest user who submitted a comment will not cause email notifications to be sent to other users except administrators. This is to ensure that spamming software cannot send out thousands of emails using the commenting feature.
Functionality Affected: News Comment Form content managed web page area
Impact: Normal
TOT-3430 - Hook in Customer Account Listing content managed web page area formats that contains the total number of contracts
On a content managed web page that displays a Customer Account Listing area, within its Customer Account Contract Listing Header and Customer Account Contract Listing Footer formats a new hook "contract_records_total_count" has been added that displays the total number of contract records that can be display in the area.
Functionality Affected: News Comment Form content managed web page area
Impact: Normal
TOT-3431 - Show user Login ID for each payment record within Payments administration centre interface
Within the Administration Centre, under the Stores menu, within the Payments interface, in the View Payments tab, the payment table now contains a column that shows the login ID of the user who submitted the payment. Additionally the login ID of the user also shows within the Payment Details dialog.
This allows administrators to see which user submitted the payment, both when payment for orders, invoices, or custom credit card payments.
Functionality Affected: Payments administration centre interface.
Impact: Normal
TOT-3432 - Hooks to show the meta title, description and keywords of news/blog items within content managed web page areas
On a content managed web page displaying either a News Group Blogs/Items Listing or News/Blog Item area the following hooks have been added to the News/Blog Item Record format:
- news_blog_meta_title: Title of the the news/blog item displayed within the title of a web page
- news_blog_meta_description: Description of the news/blog item hidden within the meta data of a web page.
- news_blog_meta_keywords: Keywords of the news/blog item hidden within the meta data of a web page used for search engines to understand the context of the webpage.
These hooks allows the item's meta data that is hidden within a content managed web page to be shown directly to the user.It is important to note that the news/blog item's meta data will still be embedded within the content managed web pages, so when setting this meta data it is important to understand that it will be seen by search engines/crawlers, and should be set in a way that help search engine rankings.
Functionality Affected: News Group Blogs/Items Listing and News/Blog Item content managed web page areas
Impact: Normal
Bug Fixes
TOT-3422 - Unable to select global area to display as pop up when using a global area to trigger the popup
On a content managed webpage containing any global website area, when create a popup for these areas, in the Popup Details dialog there was no ability to assign a global container to the area.
Within the Administration centre, under the Websites menu, within the Websites interface, after navigating to the Web Page Editor interface, within the Set Popup Container dialog the Global Web Area Container drop down now correctly displays all Global Webpage Containers when the popup is being assigned to a global web page area.
Functionality Affected: Global content managed web page areas
Impact: Normal