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R184 System Update - Scheduled to go live March 26th, 2013

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:25:15 GMT

We are announcing a new Business Catalyst release, scheduled to go live on Tuesday, March 26th, between 1AM - 6AM PST.

Please refer to our blog post for an overview of all major changes.

Minor enhancements and cosmetic improvements

When disabling the web app item detail page a web app, the system will now hide the web app item URL, web app item preview, web app detail templates
Fixed some Internet Explorer 10 issues, impacting the WYSIWYG editor and the lists from the admin interface
Email campaigns wizard will now display the time zone to offer a better indication on when the campaign is scheduled to be sent
Page redirect protection will be enabled for all sites; if you plan to redirect users to external sites using PageID parameter, than you should whitelist the URL through the Secure Domain Redirect interface

New InContext editing interface
We're working on a new and improved replacement for our existing InContext Editing feature (ie. "Edit" mode), and are opening it up for public beta testing on your sites.

The new editing experience no longer relies on Flash/Flex and is written purely in HTML5/JavaScript. You can enable the new editing experience under Site Settings > Beta Features.

Issues fixed by May release

Issue #	Description
2792792	Products export will now save CSV files to allow HTML content being correctly read by Excel when opening the export file on Mac computers
2876636	Customers can now create Customer Reports on CRM Forms that include a + sign in the list of available values
2892073	Updated "Visits by source" report to exclude the site domain
2978194	Updated the ADORA template to remove an absolute link from the registration page
3078126	Updated {module_title} to add the "output" parameter which control what information will the module display: ID or Value;Available options for the parameters are: id and value; default value is id for backwards compatibility;
3318286	Fixed an issue in the Payment Gateway user interface that was blocking users from deselecting an Offline Payment method and use PayPal standard instead
3329461	Updated {module_productresults} to add the "Hide Secure Items" parameter that will allow users to hide products in secured catalogs. The parameter supports two values True and False; By default the module is set to false so that it preserves backwards compatibility.
3329489	Fixed an issue causing blog comment notifications to be sent to the wrong role
3055119	Fixed an issue causing the webapp role responsible to receive the comment notifications instead of the comment role selected
3334627	We've made the /ModulesTemplates folder available in webBasics and webBasics+ plan types so that partner can update the social media module layouts
3349030	Fixed an issue causing the Close button from CRM > Type Manager panel to not work on Internet Explorer 9
3316248	Fixed an issue that was causing invoice to be printed as a screenshot on Internet Explorer 9
3347303	Updated currency for South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
3352869	Fixed an issue causing the delivery date to be moved to the next day when editing an email campaign
3359498	Removed references to Business Catalyst from the Java_DynMenusSelectedCSS.js script file for better white label support
3489941	Removed site plan and details link for webBasics and webBasics+ sites that are under consolidated billing
3506753	Getting started videos have been removed from Partner Portal
3513631	Fixed a bug in the new email editor that was removing spaces between words when creating links
3491721	Updated the Image Picker in the new email campaign editor to display image preview for images that contain spaces in their names
3514304	Fixed an issue that was blocking users from replicating a site for with product variations enabled
2591940	Improved performance on the old file manager so that it will compute and display dimensions for a larger number of images.
2736799	Fixed a bug that caused incorrect add to cart link to be generated by {tag_relatedproducts}
3101268	Updated the Tribecca template to make the My Cart link relative instead of absolute
3045069	Removed "Show more feeds" link from Weekly reports emails
3044175	Updated {module_pageaddress} so that it outputs the SEO friendly URL
3367788	Fixed an issue causing secure zone subscriptions to expire 1 day too early under certain cases
3488788	Fixed an issue causing secure pages to be listed multiple times in Pages list user interface
3487829	Fixed an issue that was generating an error in the Overall Summary chart for loyalty email campaigns
3363891	Fixed an issue that was causing the web app name to not be displayed in the Site Manager > Secure Zones > Secure Content when securing web app items
3489830	Updated SEO migration tool so that it will also migrate pages that only have SEO description defined
3502202	Updated database index to fix an incorrect attribute options ordering when outputted by {tag_attributes}
3107736	Updated email campaigns to prevent emails from being sent twice to the same email address, when the address was used simultaneously by a contact and a company
3433145	SEO - updated the web apps rendering so that it will display the web app item title, if defined in the page or detailed layout instead of the web app name
2968068	Fixed an issue on CRM > Orders interface that was causing the Print button to not be displayed right after creating a new order from admin
3475527	Updated the online editor to also display styles defined using IDs in the Apply CSS drop-down Note: This bug fix was reverted
3487847	Fixed an issue preventing the WYSIWYG editor from inheriting CSS styles from templates
3434250	Fixed an issue where affilitate commisions were not recorded properly when using PayPal Standard as payment gateway

Message was edited by: Florin Carlig on April 29th, 2013

Trouble connecting via SFTP today? Here's the fix.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:36:57 GMT

If you've been experiencing SFTP connection errors, make sure you accept the new terms of use as detailed here: http://www.businesscatalyst.com/bc-blog/trouble-connecting-via-sftp-make-sure-you-accept-t he-new-terms-of-use

R186 System Update - Scheduled to go live April 17th, 2013

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:41:30 GMT

We are announcing a new Business Catalyst release, scheduled to go live on Monday, April 22nd, between 1AM - 6AM PST.

Please refer to our blog post for an overview of all major changes.

Issues fixed in April release

Issue #	Description
3501656	Fixed an issue with the Change system and secure domains names in Partner Portal that was causing previous domain names to remain in the system and no longer available for use
3531460	Fixed in interface issue in Change Billing relationship user interface that was preventing users from saving changes because of the "Submit" button overlapping the site expiry date picker
3530757	Updated secure redirect engine to automatically white label redirects made through ad rotators so that we don't force users to manually white list the target domain after creating an ad rotator
3532160	Updated device detection engine to recognize BlackBerry 10 as a phone instead of a desktop
3532273	Updated link picker in the new email marketing editor to also show the list of blog posts
3535566	Update the link picker in the new email marketing editor to allow users to create links to documents in site
3014970	Fixed an issue with page generator engine to merge the blog meta data with the template meta data
3540843	Sometimes blog files exported from WordPress could not be imported.

R183 System Update - Scheduled to go live January 22nd, 2013

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:32:16 GMT

We are announcing a new Business Catalyst release, scheduled to go live on January 22nd, 2013.

Please refer to our official blog post for feature highlights and other major improvements slated for this release.

Minor enhancements and cosmetic improvements

Grid state persistence - with this release, most of the item lists displayed in the new admin user interface will remember the page and the sorting applied on a list when returning from a detail page
Edit page properties in the new file manager - when editing a page in the new File Manager, users can now edit the page properties like SEO metadata, workflows, or page visibility
Updated Email Marketing wizard - we have simplified the email campaign wizard and merged the Type and Details step into a single one, updated the controls for setting up one-off and loyalty campaigns and moved the Email Campaign subject into the content tab
Secure domain redirects - starting with this release, all sites will have this feature turned on; if you redirect users to external websites, you should add those into the Secure Domain Redirect list
SPAM improvements - comment workflow emails are no longer sent when a comment is marked as SPAM
Limit the comment size - Starting with this release we will be limiting the number of characters per comment to 4000
URL Redirects have been moved from Page Details into Site Settings menu
Display how many subscribers are into a Secure zone in the secure zone list view
Renamed Advanced View tab from pages screen into List View and made it default for new sites
After sending a Campaign, don't show an error when redirected to the Stats tab
Site Manager > Pages - Advanced view buttons don't have the same height. Might be reproducible in other screens as well.
Updated styling for Find a Customer link found in some CRM screens
Updated styling for date picker in filters
Fixed icons alignment in the left menu + redesign some icons to be more relevant to the menu entry
Fixed footer spacing in some screens (it's not always the same)
Page status (draft/live) was sometimes shown in grey
Table list headers font-size is not the size in specs (all over the UI)
Consistency improvements for links color (we had 5 different tones of blue, now we have just one as in specs)
Site Manager > Page Details - Breadcrumb has the correct caption Pages instead of Web Pages
Web Forms field categories wrap on the second line when the window is resized although the screen is optimized for low resolutions screens.
Wizard tabs have different colors depending on the screen.

Issues fixed by January release

Issue #	Description
3157574	Updated catalog import to fix an issue causing the import to generate incorrect URLs when more than one sub catalogs were created
3164429	Enforced shipping tax validation to prevent site customers from bypassing the shipping tax payment
3343967	Updated the Site Setting > File Manager to prevent users from creating folders that contain # in their name
3365127	Fixed an issue on list views that was causing an incorrect datetime sort (was sorting alphabetically by date instead of actual date)
3373342	Fixed an issue that intermittently generated an error when when accessing the BC Toolbox panel, via the admin console
3377475	Updated secure zone login to prevent an "Secure Zone Access Expired" error being displayed when trying to log in a secure zone in some cases
3430574	Fixed an issue causing muCommander to corrupt files on upload using SFTP
3430529	Fixed a file system issue that was not preventing SFTP clients from retrieving missing or corrupt files on the remote storage and overwrite the client local files
3428565	Fixed an issue preventing users from connecting to sites on SFTP, using FireFTP
3430571	Fixed some issues causing CuteFTP and muCommander for Mac to corrupt files on upload
2908470	Updated {tag_recipientfirstname} so that it will render an empty string instead of "Recipient" if first name is empty
2567870	Updated the Dynamic Menu sorting functionality to fix an issue that was causing menu items to intermittently skip a few places
2567955	Fixed an issue causing state tax to not be covered by the gift voucher payments on some occasions
2567515	Fixed an issue causing the Web App Edit Layout to not populate checkboxes that have the ampersand & in the name
2753571	Creating a new Free Shipping Type Option hides all other pre-configured shipping options in front-end for all the sub-domains of a website
3227500	Fixed "Add RSS channels to a WebPage" and "Get RSS HTML code" links from the "Actions" dropdown list in the new admin user interface
3344567	Fixed an issue preventing the get RSS HTML code link from working on the new admin user interface
3220522	Returning URL for DIBS payment gateway blank
3217223	Fixed an issue causing incorrect data to be displayed when using affiliate program tags: {tag_referralslastmonth} and {tag_referralslastweek}
3343296	Fixed a an issue causing the line item descriptions displayed on a packaing slip layout to be mis-aligned
2801224	Updated tag_productlist sorting. The sortBy parameter can now accept "releasedate" and "expirydate" parameters. We also added the ability to sort ascending or descending for any sort type. Example: in order to sort by release date ascending, use "releasedate asc". In order to order by expiry date descending use "expirydate desc" or simply "expirydate" which will work as before (dates are descending by default).

Deprecated functionality

{tag_tellafriend} and {tag_tellafriendurl} will no longer be available for use in email campaigns. Existing campaigns will continue to work as designed.

R182 System Update - scheduled to go live December 4th, 2012

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:24:39 GMT

We are announcing a new Business Catalyst release, scheduled to go live on Tuesday, December 4th, between 1AM - 6AM PST.

Please see the blog post for an overview of all major changes.

Minor enhancements

Programmatically creating thumbnails from full size images now accepts a single dimension (width or height) and it always does proportional resize based on the dimension provided. (docs to be updated soon)
Bounce management updates - with this release, we are going to automatically unsubscribe and opt-out customers whose email addresses have hard bounced. Additionally, we have renamed the Invalid Email Addresses report into Hard Bounces and merged it with the Bounce report.
Import progress indicator - the import has been updated so that it now shows the import progress
Partner Portal updates: invoice list and comissions are now ordered descendent by date; additionally, the Billing tab now shows the Site ID next to each customer name
All charts are now rendered using a different library, leading to slightly different looks. There are no changes in chart data or functionality.

Issues fixed

Bug #	Description
2873659	Change customer's Secure Zone Subscriptions date interval from 1920-2020 to 2000-2100
3078126	{module_title} displays the title ID instead of the customer's title e.g. Mr, Mrs, etc Note: this bug fix was reverted, and addressed in a future release
3156116	when using the import loyalty campaign template the customer anniversary dates are pre-filled with 1-1-9999 date instead of empty
3176084	Total order amount wrong calculation for Netherlands, Espanol and Deutsch
3282902	Wholesaler price with volume discount: The quantity threshold value will be updated with '.00' decimals after the first save and after a second save, an error will be triggered
3323767	Company name is not displayed when a customer has more than one relationship to a company, and one of the relationships has been deleted
3330266	Using a discount code for free shipping with a minimum total condition ignores it and recomputes the total based on item prices only
3338670	The home address fields associated to a customer are lost when clicking Enter in the CRM contact detail panel
3341625	If you are using custom templates to render a product the default "list" template will appear after pressing the Add to cart button
3348888	CRM entries are created when comments are set to "Must be logged in" in order to post, and one comments as Anonymous
3348939	When creating a campaign where the list of customers is over 2000, at the last step "Preview and Send", the number of recipients remains on "Calculating..."
3349824	BR tags are commented from menu items tooltip on Save
3350859	Sites with old no longer offered site plans cannot access FTP
3352094	Wholesale price always saved as zero
3355847	Viewing/editing a campaign, contentHolder or template file through the File Manager logs the siteID as if it's the userID in the audit log
3353726	Large literature items over 10 Mb cannot be uploaded. It should work for files up to 100mb
3354064	Cannot forward a non-WWW domain to a domain using the DNS tool once the domain is already added in the admin panel
3354541	Backup layout is not displayed when the web app items are inserted through the new toolbox
3359256	Disabled sites are not enabled if upgraded via Consolidated Billing invoice on account
3359585	Cannot re-add a non-WWW domain if the DNS zone is created and you have removed it from your site
3362275	Product template restored to default when using product grouping functionality in site frontend e.g. module_product,CatID,ProdID template="" - functionality broken
3362972	Cannot create subdomains with more than one level after the first domain.
2599509	{tag_capacitydescription} rendering "Full" even though there is 1 seat available in the booking
2638884	Secure zone 'Frequency of Membership Renewal' option failing when selecting 'once' with non recurring Payment gateway
2732950	Change the Norwegian word â€œlaurdagâ€ into â€œlÃ¸rdagâ€
2814482	Sorting literature items doesn't work properly in Admin when filtering by one letter
3000564	Unclassified web app items are imported as classified with previous item classification
3090411	Campaigns are sent even though the site has been marked as deleted
3110319	Pressing the Back button to return to the checkout form will load the default engilsh version of the checkout form
3189476	Campaign emails do not respect the standard for the Message-Id field
2567870	Moving dynamic menu items using the â€˜right click > Move up/downâ€™ seems to intermittently skip a few places
2758568	The tax is not recorded against the order if the initial payment fails and the second payment is successful
2832245	Exporting to PDF bounced reports for email campaign throws system error
2842411	The webapp import hangs when having a large amount of custom fields
2841512	[Reports] If you create a Customer and Order and use both "Product Purchased with Details" and "Products Purchased" options you will get the "An error occurred" message
2952394	Checkout form on the Cadac template is unusable
3225813	Newly created sites from templates, scratch or replicated sites shouldn't have a sitemap.xml file, even if the original site has it
3301285	SEO friendly URL column when importing a catalog is marked in admin panel as optional, but this information is mandatory
3311966	Static file cache invalidation fails occasionally, causing old file version to be served even though it has been modified

Release Notes R181 - scheduled to go live next week

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:39:26 GMT

Business Catalyst October Release Notes

We are announcing a new Business Catalyst release, scheduled to go live next week. This release includes additional improvements to spam management, support for SFTP for better security, new beta features and bug fixes. The deployment will take a few hours but we anticipate no major disruptions to the Business Catalyst service during this time.

Read through the following sections to get detailed information about this release:

Features and enhancements
Beta features
Issues fixed by this release

You can jump to the corresponding section by clicking the above links.

Features and enhancements

Support for SFTP connections

Business Catalyst now supports the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) protocol when connecting to sites remotely via Dreamweaver or other supported clients.

For information on making the switch and a list of supported clients, please refer to the following article: Connecting to your site using SFTP.

Please note: We will close regular, plain text FTP support by December this year. With this update, new sites setup in Dreamweaver will use SFTP by default.

Improved spam management for comments and forums

Following on from our recent integration of Akismet for tackling Comment spam, we’ve extended this feature to now manage spam for the Forums module. This feature sits seamlessly alongside the manual “mark as spam” feature for Forums, and works the same way as Akismet filtering for Comments does today. For more information on spam filtering for forums, refer to this article: Managing spam on Forums.

For Comments, we’ve also enhanced spam options, allowing you to set the system to automatically delete comments and associated CRM records if filtered by Akismet. Check out the updated article for details on setting this up.

Other changes

Support for Internationalized domain names - we’re opening up support for Internationalized domain names in Business Catalyst, which consist of characters from scripts other than English – such as Chinese, Arabic, or Russian. Adding and modifying IDNs will follow the same process as regular domain names.
Enhancements to the new Module/Tag Toolbox - We’ve completed the rollout of the new Module/Tag Toolbox across the new Admin Console for both Partners and their clients. Based on customer feedback, we’ve also tweaked the way in which the toolbox displays for business owners versus Partner users – by default, the toolbox will now initially be closed for business owners when editing pages, email newsletters etc.
Replaced Tag insert drop-down with the new Toolbox - with this release, we have updated the new admin interface and replaced the tag insert drop-down from inside the editor with our new Toolbox.
Updated Product Detail interface - in the new admin user interface, we have moved the inventory section from product details into it's own tab to make more visible and easier to access. Additionally, we have replaced the "Hide If Out of Stock" and "Can Pre-Order" checkboxes with a drop-down that better describes the options a site owner has when setting-up inventory management.

Beta Features

Product inventory control for attributes

This much anticipated feature enables your clients to manage product inventory and stock levels based on what we now call “variations”. You can enable this on a site-by-site basis from the new Site Settings > Beta Features section of the Admin Console.

The beta rollout will include:

Back-end user interface updates for managing stocks per variations
Updated tag syntax to support product variations
Enhanced e-commerce and customer reports to include product variations; an additional enhancement to reports now allows customers to view the product attributes in the customers and orders reports

What's not included:

Import/Export products to support product variations
API updates to support variations

Email list segmentation

Continuing the improvements on our email marketing system, we are simplifying the process required to send targeted email campaigns by enabling customers to filter customer lists during the email campaign creation. List can be filtered based various information already stored in the system like user actions or CRM data. This new feature is accessible in beta from the new Site Settings > Beta Features section of the Admin Console.

Issues fixed in this release

Issue 3319200 - Fixed the Export Report under Subscribers in Email Marketing > Mailing Lists any list w/ subscribers does nothing
Issue 3324861 - Fixed an issue causing the DIBS return page to display a blank page and orders not recorded as paid in the CRM system
Issue 3332525 - Import in campaigns email campaign wizard & mailing lists are now linked with mailing list permissions instead of administer system
Issue 3333485 - Improved performance on campaign lists to prevent timeouts
Issue 3334627 - Exposed /ModuleTemplates/SocialMedia folder is now exposed in File Manager and FTP for webBasics and webBasics+ plans
Issue 3337042 - Fixed an encoding issue causing the Toolbox to show "An error occurred" when a site contains a web app with invalid characters in his name; (this issue has been already deployed through a hot-patch)
Issue 3337055 - Fixed an issue preventing the Toolbox from being displayed in the new admin interface when editing webapp items (this issue has been already deployed through a hot-patch)
Issue 3340813 - Updated Toolbox module filters to display the AdRotator module when editing a site on a webMarketing plan
Issue 3337900 - Fixed an error occurring when deleting an web app item from front-end
Issue 3340858 - Fixed an issue preventing multiple templates from being used when applied to web app list included in a content holder
Issue 3341790 - Added a close button on Toolbox when displayed in the editing web app items screen
Issue 2997962 - Fixed an issue preventing the billing address from being saved
Issue 3214348 - Updated Visitors report Geographic location to also count the entries with missing information and display "not set" when the visitor's country couldn't be determined
Issue 2938451 - Updated the Admin->WebApps->Custom fields interface to fix an issue that was adding an extra space when saving large data sets
Issue 3051266 - Fixed an issue with the multiscreen templates causing the 404 - Page Not Found page to always display the desktop template
Issue 3305741 - Fixed an issue causing secure zone expiry date to be updated for all secure zones that the user has access to when purchasing access to a specific paid secure zone
Issue 3305731 - Fixed an issue preventing users from login into a valid secure zone when access is marked as expired for another secure zone
Issue 2709720 - Fixed an issue causing the $ sign to not be displayed in the invoice layout for {tag_producttaxpercentage,10}
Issue 2924821 - Increased the maximum character limit to 4000 for Text Multiline field type in Web Form Builder
Issue 3346312 - Fixed an issue causing deleted products to no longer be displayed on invoices and orders

Thanks!