Hotfixes & Small Tweaks - November
The latter part of October and November are exciting on the Systems Operations front with many upgrades to our data center, adding many new servers and clusters, further securing the datacenter, adding new advanced monitoring systems and much more.  We are moving many sites around to balance loads, provide new levels of redundancy and consolidate server functions.  These changes which will result in faster load times, more capacity and more transparency into server operations and will be complete by the end of November effectively tripling our current capacity and shaving double digit percentages off of page delivery times across the board.
- 11/28
- FEATURE: Wizard usability changes including new wizard master page, internationalization changes, button navigation improvements and DHL.
- 11/26
- HOTFIX: Advanced Tax miscalculating on carts with multiple items           
- HOTFIX: AdvancedTax calculating now for shipping / handling. 
- HOTFIX: All tax methods will now recalc if shipping amount changes
- HOTFIX (29, 33): Product import will now call the correct delete method when deleting a product
- FIX: Product_UpdateBasicInventoryViaDataSet - Allow updating of products with duplicate lookup keys
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) - Corrected an issue with manually added AdCodes not having the correct CreationType. 
- 11/25
- HOTFEATURE (5.0.33) – Google Checkout has a new settings page.
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) Can now specify which shipping methods will work for Google Checkout, and specify fallback rates for each one.
- Coupon codes now function with Google Checkout.
- Stability and performance of Google Checkout has been improved.  Users can now improve the reliability of callbacks by enabling the option “Require notification acknowledgments to specify the serial number of the notification” in their Google Checkout account settings.
- No longer require the zip code prior to starting Google Checkout.
- HOTFIX (29, 33): Fix null reference in Attribute list page navigation binding code when being hit by scanalert
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) – Fixed a null reference when calculating the average request time, and fixed an index out of range exception that was occurring in the Search Phrase condition for the analytics. 
- HOTFIX (33): New Reporting Menu & Global Settings Menu
- HOTFIX (33): Fix all report names and breadcrumbs in reporting area to be consistent
- HOTFIX (33): Add view tab to sales dashbaord
- 11/24
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) Added exact match flag to AdCode condition (analytics)
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) Fixed an issue created when binding the paging on the rules list of the analytics when switching between admin and user rules
- FEATURE: Display single variant group pricing in the variant dropdown
- FIX: Trim US postal codes to 5 characters in the Shipping Address object.
- 11/21
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) - Fixed some appearance issues on the Visitor Summary (missing tab bar, inconsistent tables)
- HOTFEATURE (5.0.33) - Added show/hide box with search criteria to Order and Customer list pages
- HOTFEATURE (5.0.33) – Added new show/hide to Visitor Log to contain search options.  Allow much more visibility of search criteria on the page.
- Fixed sorting the bandwidth by month chart on the Account Activity page.  Oct, Nov, Dec showed between Jan and Feb.
- HOTFIX (Main, 30): Child products will now use their parent product's URL in the xml product feed
- HOTFIX (5.0.30, 5.0.33): Was an error when posting product twice with same product object.  Caused by fix to update parent with Static Child List info.
- 11/20
- HOTFEATURE (5.0.33) - Added the new Show/Hide Page Settings to Referrer Analysis and Sales Analysis, and utilized the toolbar for the export function and the filters on those pages.
- HOTFEATURE: (v33): Enable variant surcharges to still take effect alongside variant inventory.  Can do + dollars and such, even on top of what the variant inventory price says.
- HOTFEATURE: (v33): Enable ability to attach price calcs on variant surcharges in the advanced pricing grid and to enter a cost surcharge associated with variants too.
- HOTFIX: (v33): QuantityGrid entry was not accepting multiple quantities anymore
- HOTFIX(ish) (5.0.33) - Added OrderStatus to report columns on Referrer Analysis
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) - Will now add [Blocked] to the source and spider names when the Block Request action takes effect.
- HOTFIX (5.0.29, 5.0.33): Product details bread crumb was still not showing correctly when the primary category is not in the current stores active catalog. Don't use admin pages when using the referring page to determine category context.
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) - Credit card option will not show up when using a gateway and picking all stores.
- HOTFIX (5.0.33) - Fixed a typo on the Visitor Summary chart header "Repeat vs New Visitors." 
- HOTFIX: Clear cache of price calc objects when saving, calcs were not being removed from cache.
- 11/19
- HOTFIX (29, 33): UpdateBasicInventoryViaDataSet will now make sure the store is tracking inventory before attempting to automatically change product statuses
- 11/18
- HOTFEATURE (5.0.32, 5.0.33): DHL moved to production URL.
- HOTFEATURE (5.0.33): Added BlockRequest and Redirect actions to analytics.
- HOTFIX (5.0.30): Were not able to add new products or group items to products because of fixes to StaticChildList field used for searches.
- 11/17
- HOTFIX(5.0.x):Fixed Default fields not shown in grids on new login and Session list only exports 20 line items to excel.
- HOTFIX (5.0.*), Defect 681 - Added ## MAPPRICELINK## for use in custom product page layouts and added the conditional merge ## IF[UseMapPricing]##
- HOTFIX: Add support for non-shipping items on Phantom Items
- HOTFIX (Main): Added weight field to google base feed because it is now a recommended field
- 11/13
- FEATURE/FIX: (main):  Removed the dependency on Provision Web Service when getting connection information for stores. Now more portable and faster.
- HOTFIX(29+): Fix for "invalid email address" issue on one page checkout that was introduced to block blank customer emails
- HOTFIX (29+): Number of pages will now be calculated properly in the product feed generation code
- HOTFIX (5.0.29): The product count on the Admin ListCategories page was not reflecting the number of products showing when drilling down as the product list include those as secondary categories and the count did not.
- 11/12
- HOTFIX (5.0.30): Add child product LastItemNr to the StaticChildList so parent products will show for old item numbers when searching.  Have updates to child products reflect on parents for the StaticChildList.
- 11/11
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added Admin rules using the new rule based analytics system to classify traffic, spiders, search engines more accurately.  Reduced noise in the visitor log by about 95%.  Spider report is more accurate as is search engine reports.  Grabs keywords from every major and minor search engine and still more to add as we see them.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added Source, SourceGroup, ReferringDomain, and UserAgent to the Visitor Log.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added Average Request Time to View Session.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added Search Phrase as a column setting to the Visitor Log
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added Suspect to the Referrer Analysis
- FIX (5.0.33): Will not error when both quantity grid and variant matrix display are selected and active on a product.  Only the matrix will load however.
- FIX (5.0.33): Adcodes and affiliate codes will now be checked on existing sessions again instead of just on new sessions.
- HOTFIX: Variant inventory variants records will now be cleaned up properly when deleting a product
- HOTFIX (29+): Fixed new folder button on file browser
- 11/10
- HOTFIX (5.0.29): Add a retry for rebuilding category tree when it fails on a deadlock.
- FIX (main): Credit Card option may not show when Pay Pal Express not setup.
- 11/7
- FEATURE: (main, 30): Add parent child capabilities to feed web service call used by our Comparison Shopping Engine Service
- HOTFIX (5.0.x): Change up SQL for how total row count is determined for Order List so that it is much faster for a large number of orders.  Have it reset to the first page when an action that might change the results is performed.  Other general clean up. 
- HOTFIX (5.0.32): Convert certain country codes to DHL country codes.
- 11/6
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Average request time will now be displayed on the on the visitor log.
- HOTFIX(5.0.x):Added page level help to discountlist, discountedit, productstatuses pages
- 11/5
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added logging for analytic rules that are successful, information will be displayed on the View Session page for the visitor
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Clicking on the Remote Address in the Visitor Log will now open View Session, added a separate button for Whois
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added RemoteAddress condition to analytics (for checking the address resolved by reverse DNS)
- 11/4
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Add default payment type selection to the admin customer edit page.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Add default payment type to the customer import/export.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added affiliate code, full referrer URL, user agent, and store columns as options on the referrer analysis.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added store filter to referrer analysis.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Response time on View Session will now show for all users.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added source group, referring domain and affiliate code to main View Session page.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Analytic Rules will now sort by name (instead of ID) as a secondary after sort order.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Added a dropdown with the option to show admin rules or user rules on the analytic rules page.
- HOTFIX (5.0.32): Error when page view being logged in Application_EndRequest and customer login session being timed out.
- 11/3
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Allow all payment methods to be sorted including adding settings for credit cards w/o a gateway and echecks.
- FEATURE (5.0.33): Add default payment type selection to the admin customer edit page.
- HOTFIX (5.0.x): Optimize tree navigation category link structure building for large catalogs
- FIX (main): Added functionality for the script rule button on the Analytic Rules admin page
- FIX (main): Referring Domain analytic condition will now check the Referrer string when the Referring Domain is null or blank
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