X-Cart 4.1.0 rc4 released
 

Dear friends,

After releasing X-Cart 4.1.0 RC3, we discovered some more problems, including a critical bug in Blowfish encryption which occur on some system environments. To make sure this bug is completely fixed, we made a decision to released a fourth release candidate (RC4) before we announce X-Cart 4.1.0 ready for production. We expect RC4 to be the last release candidate before the final 4.1.0 release.

X-Cart 4.1.0 RC4 is now available in your File area.

Below is the changelog between RC3 and RC4:


Thank you.

looks like we are driving fastly to get the stable release soon...

Almost fell off my chair then. Looks like things are coming on :-)

Now if that is made as an option in general settings / appearance its useful to everyone.

Heres my list of other bits and bobs that i noticed when looking at the demo site http://www.x-cart.com/demo_preview/

Welcome to administration area

Could we move the top sellers and orders info to there own page instead of showing on the first page when you log into admin. On a store with hundreds of sales a day it takes forever to log in and this info is not needed every time you enter the admin area.

IMAGES LOCATION


Nowhere here does it ask you or tell you where the images are going to be stored. This text will not help anyone

Im sure both dialog.tpl and menu.tpl could be simplified easily. one thing i change ever time is to remove the
from after the content of menu.tpl. just wastes space at the foot of the menu

PAYMENT METHODS
you could make the special instructions a text area instead of a text field. would make it easier to read

SEND TO FRIEND
please make this as a module that can be switched on and off

LANGUAGES

if theres only one language available can we not have to choose it from the first drop menu

GENERAL SETTINGS / MISCELLANEOUS

Enable tracking statistics: - Are these not linked to the advanced statistics

Parse Smarty tags in the content of embedded static pages: - Should this not be on the static pages page

The full path to Perl - could this not be checked as an environmental variable and entered if found

GENERAL SETTINGS / APPEARANCE OPTIONS
Displaying products -

Display only featured products list in multicolumn format: could this be switched off as default

Display product code (SKU) in the products list: - could we also ask about the sku in the title of the details page

CONTACT US FORM OPTIONS
I see the departments drop down is now able to switch off but why not make it an adition field there by default. that way people can edit it too.

Why not also show the company address and telephone numbers on the contact us page. we already have the data

Where the phone number is shown please change US TOLL FREE to CALL US or something more generic

SEO OPTIONS
make the text field text areas instead. difficult to try and enter stuff in a tiny box

Make the site title something configurable instead of using your company name. The same goes for the root link of the navigation links

USER PROFILE OPTIONS
can you confirm if both billing and shipping first and last name are stored in their own row in the database and not joined.

can you confirm if both billing and shipping address1 & address 2are stored in their own row in the database and not joined.

could we not join the Personal information & Contact Information into one section

it would be better if company was asked as billing address and then also for shipping address

INVOICE
All ill say is that the invoice has always looked unprofesional and could so easily be cleaned up.

PRINT INVOICE - pity it shows in times romain and not verdana or whatever the main body font of the store is

ORDERS

It would be great if orders were shown in their own menu box. this way it would be simple for an admin to disallow all other menus to fulfilment staf. There was a simple mod before to create quick links for 'todays orders' 'new orders' etc

ORDERS ORDER - Order must be shown with latest one first, NOT the other way round. Makes no sense

ORDERS DATE - please show this to include the hours and minutes too

ORDERS DETAILS - would be best to show products in more of an invoice type way rather then the old xcart way

STYLE SHEET CSS
good to see this has been worked on. dont understand why the categories list has its own style that just makes the category font bigger. dont see any point for that and makes things look disjointed.

BUTTONS
could someone from xcart explain the logic behind how buttons are made and why we must have go buttons, full buttons and std text buttons. There does not seem to be any sense to it. Surely things could be made simpler here.

PRODUCTS LIST ADMIN

http://www.x-cart.com/demo_preview/admin/search.php?mode=search&page=1

it would be so usefull to be able to use a list like that to also enter list price and other data. would speed things up no end

Anyway, Ill leave this for now and hope that even if none of this will go into 4.1 that at least we can have some discussion on it and if the ideas are bad then say so. If ideas are good then most of them are simple fixes and would make life better all round

Good to see progress

Just checked it out! I'm especially happy with the option to add a % or fixed value per payment method.

Hope to see 4.1 soon, it has a lot of options that i'd like to use.

After installing 4.1.0 RC3 if I check the box for "Use HTTPS for users' login and registration:" when I try to check out or register the site will not redirect to the https link.

If I turn webmaster mode on then I am redirected to http://www.mysite.co.uk/register.php

Any ideas?

Thanks

I get an alert box appear when trying to edit the welcome text (txt_welcome) using the WYSIWYG editor.


It works fine when editing product descriptions. This happens in IE6 and Firefox.

If using the file system for images, where do you tell it to store them? The path option has gone!

The advanced editor is only available on Windoze?

I'm on Windows, never used a mac in my life!

Never mind.

the demo is a pro version so you have to log in to provider area

provider / provider

I haven't been able to login as master/master or provider/provider so I tried admin/admin and it worked. Of course, as you point out that's why discounts and coupons were missing. I went into the provider and master users and set the passwords to provider and master respectively (even though the warnings had come up saying the passwords were the default) and I still can't log on as either of those users.

Guess what? They did put a switch in for the send to friend....
General settings> Appearance> The section 'Send to friend' on the Product details page is enabled. CHECKBOX
FINALLY!! I havent looked for the other options you named, but you are definitely naming off some things I would have!!

SEND TO FRIEND
please make this as a module that can be switched on and off

Thank you. This will be fixed.


It is no longer necessary to specify a directory for images, because now all the images are stored in the directory "xcart/images". Product thumbnails are stored in "xcart/images/T", category icons - in "xcart/images/C" etc.

How can you export/import products from 4.0.16 to 4.1.0 RC4?
The product CVS file from 4.0.16 gives a notification/warning in 4.1.0. RC4 "The file you are trying to import does not contain any sections."
and there are no products imported. Do I do something wrong or is there a special trick to do this? We have about 800 products in 4.0.16.

Thanks in advance,

An upgrade patch for converting the database from the last version of the 4.0.x branch (at the moment that is 4.0.18) to 4.1.0 will be available after X-Cart 4.1.0 is released. Even if you do not wish to upgrade your X-Cart 4.0.16 to 4.0.18, you will need, nevertheless, to upgrade the database from 4.0.16 to 4.0.18 by applying the database patch patch.sql from the upgrade patches 4.0.16-4.0.17 and then 4.0.17->4.0.18. Then you should be able to upgrade from 4.0.18 to 4.1.0.

Svowl, would you mind adding your comments to my post.

I also noticed we are still not able to add a list price to a variant which causes the % saving to be lost.

I mentioned this a while ago. it was also discussed here http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=19439&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=0

I installed a Pro version and have created a test product which shows up as admin or provider, but the store still doesn't show any products.

Obviously, I have made the product "Available for sale" (set it at 1000 qty. etc.) and have even tried using the direct link to the product... no luck. Store is still empty???

Any ideas? Anyone seen this? Is there something I am missing in 4.1 that is diff. than previous versions?

**NOTE** : I just re-installed with sample products and when I changed a products category- it disappeared and repeats the same issue that I mentioned above... as I changed nothing but the category (after changing the default provider in the products table), it appears to be the case.

Thanks,

Mike

i had the same problem, go to the tools page in xcart and do the "force regenerate cache" or something like that. it fix it for me :)

Thanks, but no luck. Quite bizarre.. any other ideas?

- Mike

Is this a bug? Can it be fixed?
 

Hello all..
well, I was testing this last release and I found out a problem in the checkout and payment step.

#1 - When You are in the checkout step Yo can't change language
#2 - In the payment details, if You choose a language different from english, paymet method are always in english. In example (bank transfer)..

Can it be fixed?
thank You

Now seems like a good time to bring this up. Some of our stores are not in an area that has daylight savings time so we have to remember to go in and change the tz offset. Would be nice if we didn't have to. :D

Re-check the product memberships, please.

Re: Is this a bug? Can it be fixed?
 

#1 - The language selector is intentionally removed from the checkout to save customer the trouble of having to complete any redundant forms, dropdowns etc. We think, you should not worry too much about customers not being able to change the language at the stage of checkout, as most probably they have already selected a language by that time.
#2 - You need to define the payment methods in German before they appear in German on the checkout. Multilingual names and descriptions for payment methods can be defined in the Admin area/Payment methods section.

Shan, we reviewed your wish lists very carefully and some of the items were implemented even after the release of RC3. I am going to publish a list of items from your post that will be included into the final 4.1.0 later.
Thank you.

For all you folks evaluating 4.1.0, here is a link to an Export issue I posted in the wrong place.
http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=27703

OK, I have re-installed rc4. I still cannot get a product to show up.

The only things that I have done are:

1. Created a provider
2. In admin: created a category
3. (Still in admin) Made a product
4. Deactivated the Premium and Wholesale memberships
5. ... and NOTHING.

I've been using X-Cart for nearly five years and I can't get a product to show up with those steps (which would work on any other version of Pro).

NOTE: All requirements of activating a product (inventory, availabilty, etc.) are as they generally need to be.

Can anyone help me to at least get a product to work with rc4? I would like to test this and get a development project underway, but I am stumped.

- Mike

Can anyone here confirms that they're able to get the "product import" fuction working correct in this RC4 release?

Thanks
-Tuan

Additionally, is there an test account ID/Pass that we can log into the Admin area of the demo store? http://www.x-cart.com/demo_preview/admin/

Thanks
-Tuan

It is usually admin/admin...

- Mike

Thanks Mike. :)

[quote="shan"]I've been asking for the change for the past 2-3 RC releases. Just don't see any particular reason why the registration form should have two different sections, "Personal Information" and then "Contact Information" right below it.

Addtionally, we don't have any option to easily move the "Phone" and "Email" fields in from "Contact Information" section into the "Personal Information". And when contacted X-cart about doing this, they wanted to charge support points because it is a custom mod.

PLEASE make the necessary change. Or at least give us the option of making that change within the Admin Pannel. I hope to see this change in the next release. THANK YOU for listening.

-Tuan

This was a bit of a shock. Can I ask why this was considered a bug?

Is the feature of importing HTML product data officially removed?
Does this mean that if we want to use the export/import feature for moving a store between installations - that all the HTML will be blown away? This effectively means that HTML in product fields (and extra fields) is no longer a supported feature.

Please explain?

Question/Suggestion
 

Would it be possible to change the field type of
xcart_extra_field_values.value from char(255) to text ?

It seems rather inflexible to have the user-definable product fields restricted to 255 characters. It prevents use of the extra fields for things like "sample text", or "table of contents".

Please check the status of an account and activity of this provider ('Account status' and 'Activity' fields at the bottom of 'Modify provider profile' page). By default provider profile created with suspended account and disabled activity.

Ah, it was the activity. That should be an option when creating a provider (it was not) as who would have known that it would show up after a provider is created. Now the product shows up.

Time to get crackin'...

- Mike

language and state
 

have state spain but not have language spanish?!

i can help with translate to spanish if you need :D

The fact that 'Activity' field was not displayed when administrator created a provider profile was a bug. It has been fixed. Thank you for the report.

Re: language and state
 

It would be very helpful for X-Cart users who need a Spanish translation. There is a special section in this forum for such things - http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=17926 (Contributed translations). Your translation is very welcome! :wink:

For reasons of security, X-Cart employs a built-in routine to validate input data. This routine cuts off all tags from the input parameters passed via POST/GET/COOKIES. However, some data (like product and category descriptions, language variables etc) need to contain HTML code. In order for the above mentioned validation routine not to affect such input variables, we use a special constant at the beginning of scripts. Below is an example from admin/product_modify.php:


The import procedure simply duplicates this validation for the data passed from CSV file.

Import errors... 4.1rc4
 

I just did a 6,000+ product import and noticed a few things. First off, it did work albeit there were some errors (listed in the logs) that were easily corrected. But, upon exporting the added products, my "Avail" and "Keywords" columns were completely wrong.

I am in the process of re-importing them with those columns empty to see what happens. This is most likely a bug as I had dropped all products prior to the last load and didn't propagate the keywords field (but it showed up w/ incorrect data!).

Thanks,

Mike