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Web Store 4.00
- Added support for Authorize.NET, LinkPoint API 6.0 and PayPal
The Web Store now supports Authorize.NET and LinkPoint API in addition to AccessPoint and PayFlow Pro. In addition support for PayPal's online HTML interface has also been added. - Improved User Interface
The store front end UI has been redesigned to work more extensively with Style Sheets and the store front interface has been reworked to be much smoother and cleaner as well as easier to maintain via styles alone. - Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Interop support for .NET version of Web Store
This version of the Web Store can fully interact with the .NET version of the Web Store. Both versions can use the same SQL Server database structure and the offline version of this version can download orders and update inventory from the .NET version via Web Service interfaces. Both Fox and .NET servers are supported by the Offline application.
Web Store 3.0
- wwBusiness Integration
The Web Store now works with wwBusiness instead of the cBusiness class that was previously provided. This isn't a huge change since wwBusiness evolved from cBusiness, but it makes for a much cleaner object mode. - New design and more modular HTML interface
The Web Store has a new, fresher look and the HTML pages are now component based that separate out the header, the item lists menu from the main page design. This allows making changes to the look of the store without affecting the main content area. - Support for dynamic content in Items
You can now specify custom tags in item HTML by specifying that an item 'implements' a specific type. For example, the conference pages in the sample, have a type of type 'CONF' set up. When creating the display content for this page, you can embed HTML Form controls that have names starting with 'conf' (like confAttendeed, confSpecialMeals) and these values will then be captured as custom properties, that can be retrieved with GetProperty(). So the page automatically captures Attendees and SpecialMeals, and those values can be retrieved with oLineItem.GetProperty("Attendees"). This makes it very flexible to build pages that include 'occasional' information such as size, color etc. which can also include things like drop down lists etc. - Improved support for CC Processors
The Web Store now supports AccessPoint, Payflow and LinkPoint. - Extended XML functionality
The store can now serve much of it's content in XML format, including item information, item lists, and full invoices and lists of invoices. - Online Order Processing
The store continues to provide offline order processing as well as online order processing. Online CC processing is now an immediate option available. Orders can also be reviewed online and then processed and confirmed via email through the admin interface. - Improved Setup
The setup is now more streamlined and should be much smoother. Installation now also seamlessly supports all server types that Web Connection supports. The source code for the Store setup is provided and derives off Web Connection's wwAppWizard class. This code has reduced significantly in size so it should be also easier to override if necessary. - More complete SQL Server Support
SQL Server is now fully integrated as an optional data source for the Web store. Although this was the case before there have been a number of changes that have improved performance for the default installation.
Last Updated: 8/17/2005 |
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