Welcome to the release notes for our 9.0.1.3 Admin Service Pack. The earlier service pack (9.0.1.3 SP1) is NOT a pre-requisite for this release. However, if you install Admin Service Pack, then install SP1, you must reinstall Admin Service Pack.
All of the following scenarios have been successfully tested in our labs:
- 9.0.1.3 with SP1
- 9.0.1.3 with Admin Service Pack
- 9.0.1.3 SP1 with Admin SP layered on top
- 9.0.1.3 Admin Service Pack with 9.0.1.3 SP1 layered on top with 9.0.1.3 Admin SP re-installed (ie Admin must be applied alone, or second)
Below we reveal the contents of the 9.0.1.3 Admin Service Pack. As before, we do not pretend that we have found and fixed everything. Instead we have focused on those things that were causing the highest impact problems and we have been diligent in maximizing the improvements while leaving the smallest footprint. There are some very significant areas of change, and we have highlighted those for your easy attention.
We have some patches for items that we could not wrap into a service pack without being very intrusive and which do not affect the majority of people. Please, if you are still having some problems after applying our service packs, do not hesitate to approach us via our support system at http://support.aspdotnetstorefront.com
Admin Side Fixes & Enhancements
The "enter" button works throughout, as an alternative to clicking buttons
Special characters are respected in entity names
Admin breadcrumb trails have been normalized. In particular, it is now easy to move backwards and forwards between product and variant
SE meta-data is now successfully persisted.
Extended prices now work on unlimited customer levels
Appconfigs now honor micro images
Clone and Nuke are returned at entity level and are easy to find and execute
ImportProductsFromExcel - messaging is improved
New customer creation through phone order entry now includes data validation
Publish/Unpublish at an entity level now works as expected. The ability to undelete an entity has been removed
The "Bulk Update" page no longer forces rounding
Mailing Manager now successfully exports customer lists
It is no longer possible to accidentally create a store named "blank"
Inventory is updated via department
Performance has been significantly improved. There are no longer delays on product and entity management and post-compile times are dramatically improved. The cart admin console has been working smoothly and quickly under test conditions
"Nickname" is no longer a required field, although customers upgrading (as opposed to new builds) will still see the asterisk (*)
Improvements have been made to "shipping import" such that it now imports from .CSV through all leading browsers
All entities now have inline product mapping and extensive grid-style batch edit capabilities
ShippingMethodIDIfFreeShippingIsOn now allows multiple shipping methods
It is now possible to email a customer direct from the edit/view customer page
Products and variants now expand and collapse from the grid page
UPS Worldship - the use of a comma is now respected and performs properly. Shipments with deleted addresses are no longer included in the export
Shipping Methods can successfully be added and deleted
Wishlist, broken in VB 9013, is now fixed
Improvements to the store maintenance page allow multiple selections on a single page. Note that mapping entities to stores will only be applied if filtering is enabled through the app configs.
A utility has been implemented to help find and map products to enter into Related, Upsell, and Required product CSV fields
Admin reports now have a default start date of "one month ago" instead of launch date of the store
Filters have been modified to drop downs on "view sales price"
Filters have been modified to drop downs on "view sales price"
Topics are mapped to store-id's, on creation (and only on creation) from the "edit topics" page and are not mapped via "Store Maintenance"
In Entity Mapping, many buttons have been moved to make workflow more intuitive
User interface for Phone Order Entry (purchase) has been improved
Entity mapping now includes "download files"
Since the shipping zone could not be mapped to a country, we have removed the label
Redundant "Download License File" button has been removed