Re: X-Cart 4.2 beta testing
 

If you read the thread, it mentions search engine friendly urls and meta data, yes. As far as the third party add-ons not being necessary - well - I wouldn't dismiss them just yet, need to see just how well done these SEO mods are.

Re: X-Cart 4.2 beta testing
 

balinor

Thanks. I did not see where it said that in the thread.

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Thanks. I found it after you pointed out it was there. Must have gotten a little crazy with the scroll when I read though.

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Uh, one question. Where is Search For Products? I think this layout is far better for the side menu. :)

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I think if you just click on products you can use the search function there.

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Thank you! Great idea to separate subgroups with an empty line! Here is the updated version of the menu:

Comments are appreciated :-)



4.2 at a whole. We decided not to include new features into minor releases to make upgrades easier. Just to clarify:
- new X-Cart vX feature major architecture changes;
- new X-Cart vX.Y introduce new features;
- new X-Cart vX.Y.Z include bug-fixes.

However, we are going to release 4.3 in about a quarter after 4.2. Perhaps, this feature will be added to 4.3.



4.2 beta is available for all X-Cart users provided they follow the steps I mentioned in the first message in this thread. Please let us know if you still experience the problem; perhaps, there is a bug in our HelpDesk system.


Please see an updated version above. There is still no Shipping menu, but the links are visually separated from other ones. Approved? :-)



Yes, just as other similar links ("Categories", "Users", ...).

Re: X-Cart 4.2 beta testing
 

Please change that perhaps to a "for sure" ;-) You see there is a major problem here. Lets say I want to give a discount, or show only, product A to customers w/ membership A, now I want to do the same with product B and members of B ok so far, but now I have a product C which is a bit special and I want to offer it to a special group of customers, ok I connect it to membership C, but now if I want to show this for just som of customers B I have to remove them from their originally group taking away that discount or show etc.

This is why I think you made big mistake when adding multi memberships to category, products, discounts ect. you should have done it for customers from start instead as now you have much more complicated system to handle. Instead asign product, category to just 1 membership and then include customers it fits into that group, you now have to multiply memberships at several places - and still system is very limiting!

I think you need to rethink as now you think wrong, I think. Like why have multiple memberships on categories as you already can create multiple categories and put multiple products in it. Why have multiple membership on products when you already can put product in multiple categories etc. etc.

Sorry for rant, but I think this is MAJOR problem and limitation with xcart, and I don't think its an addition of feature but an approvement of already available feature. I looked at code and it's not overwhealmingly difficult to implement. Basically you need 1 new table 'xcart_customer_memberships' w/ 'login' and 'membershipid' and as these fields already exists in 'xcart_customers' and can only be 1 value now, upgrade that part is really easy. Most of it would be in php files most users don't touch anyway and template files I think they who change in general are used to make design changes on updates. With a desent diff tool that even is available for free, this is no big problem.

So please rething, xart woul be sooo muuch moore powerful!

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The only thing I am really concerned about is having the 1 page checkout mod from altered cart work on 4.2. I am also wondering if there have been any upgrades to the backup.
I really like the url history feature..that is going to go well.
I'm going to be very daring...and am planning to lanch a new store using 4.2 pro as soon as its out of beta. (provided the 1 page checkout mod works)

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The list of counties we use in X-Cart is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_6879

It is an ISO standard.

I would appreciate if you clarify what is wrong with that list. Thank you!




The mod affects templates which are completely rewritten in 4.2 Therefore I guess the mod won't work until the author updates it.

As for the backup function: as far as I know it hasn't been modified.



We will surely consider the feature when planning 4.3. However, right now I can't assure you that the feature will be implemented in 4.3 because it depends on many factors.