Miva Merchant 5.5 Release Notes:
New Feature: Revamped UI.
- Miva Merchant UI has been redesigned to focus on "click efficiency".
- Merchants may now submit the form by clicking the Enter key on Search/Pagination boxes, QuickFind and the Order-Number based sorting features.
New Feature: SEO Settings.
- *Tab can be found in the Domain Settings.
- Merchants have the ability to configure the global settings for .htaccess rewrite rules.
- Merchants have the ability to Enable/Disable Sitemap (Creates a new page "SMAP").
New Feature: META Tag Settings for Products and Categories.
- *Tabs can be found on individual Product & Category screens.
- Merchants can specify the META Description & META Keywords for each product/category.
- Added new component "prodctgy_meta".
- Updated PROD & CTGY pages to load prodctgy_meta component.
New Feature: Launchpad.
- *Settings can be found in the top frame "Configure Shortcuts" link.
- Merchants have the ability to configure 5 internal/external Shortcut links + Home (starting) page.
- QuickFind feature (Allows quick searching of products/categories/customers/orders).
New Feature: Frameworks
- *Tab can be found in Store Settings.
- Merchants have the ability to Add/Apply/Save/Delete the state of their runtime as a framework.
- Additional framework(s) provided by Miva Merchant will be available in the upcoming streams.
New Feature: Dreamweaver Import/Export.
- *Tab can be found in Store Settings.
- ***Requires Miva Merchant Dreamweaver Plugin.
- Designers/Merchants have the ability to Export their pages into Dreamweaver format.
- They can then edit those pages in Dreamweaver and import them back into Miva Merchant.
- Import/Export options added to the Pages screen.
New Feature: External CSS files.
- *Settings can be found in the Head Tag Content/CSS tab.
- Merchants may now upload one or more external CSS files. CSS files may be used as a "Skin" in Miva Merchant CSS Framework (coming soon).
New Feature: Number-based sorting control.
- Categories and Products have the ability to sort the order through keying in the desired order numbers instead of clicking the up & down arrows.
New Feature: Product Attribute Template.
- *Tab can be found on every Page the product_attributes component is assigned.
- Merchants now have the ability to alter the Product Attribute Template.
New Feature: Customer HTML Based Email.
- *Settings can be found on the Order Fulfillment Settings screen.
- Merchants now have the ability to create HTML Template based emails.
New Feature: Product List "Product Columns" field.
- *Option can be found on any Product List page (PROD, PLST, CTGY, SRCH).
- This field allows merchants to specify the number of columns they wish to display their products in.
New Feature: Enhanced Order Processing.
- Orders and Batches are now displayed in a formatted Batch Edit List (Newest first).
- Create Batch has been moved to the Orders Tab.
- Added Next/Previous/First/Last buttons to Edit Order screen.
- External Payment Links that were listed under Order Processing previously, are now listed in their own menu Payment Links.
New Feature: Enhanced Page navigation.
- Edit Item screen now contains the Pages tab. Merchants may now assign/unassign pages from an item.
- Next/Previous/First/Last buttons were added to Edit Page screen.
Other improvements.
- Software state. Merchants can now see if their software is up-to-date or if there are updates available at the bottom of left navigation frame.
- Headlines frame. This frame contains headlines & urgent messages and appears above the Main Contents frame.
- HTML profile component.
- This component controls the doctype declaration and the HTML tag; with the ability to specify an xhtml namespace.
- This component replaces all HTML tags with a call to html_profile.
- HTML Profile settings are global.
- Added - Link to Miva Merchant website in Sitemap and Global Header & Footer.
- setup.mvc "Database Selection" step now defaults to mySQL.
- setup.mvc "Activate Upgrade License" step is no longer available.
- setup.mvc License Errors should now send users to the License Step.
- When running admin.mvc for the first time, Add Store screen becomes the new home page.
- Order Fulfillment Modules are now installed in the Add Store process.
- DEVAT has been renamed to European VAT.
- Statetax and USCurrency modules are now the default of Add Store screen if the merchant's country is U.S.
- European VAT, Generic Currency and kilograms are now the default of Add Store screen if the merchant’s country is United Kingdom.
- /export/ directory is now created during the Add Store process.
- Miva_Merchant_API_Version variable has been changed to 5.50. This change should not disrupt existing 3rd party modules.
- Added confirmation box for Edit Page >> Item Tab >> Unassign item.
- Added confirmation box for Edit Item >> Pages Tab >> Unassign page.
- Removed MIVA Ad Center feature from Miva Merchant.
- Removed Store Wizards from the Main screen.
- Miva Mailer and Miva Submit have been removed from the Left Navigation menu.
Bug Fixes.
- Fixed a runtime bug that caused $0.00 orders in the event the customer is on the OPAY page and finishes the order after their basket has expired.
- Fixed a bug in which product attributes were not showing up properly on the Upsale screen.
- Fixed a bug where adding sub-categories failed to retain the category parent.
- Fixed a bug where Edit Customer screen would always show "Add Customer" in the title.
- Fixed a bug in Flat File Category Import module in which empty parent category codes could fail the import process.
- Fixed bugs in provisioning system for component modules.
- The Domain Settings Add Angle Brackets to Email Addresses field now updates properly under mySQL.