Release notes: 20241011_12273197

Friday, October 11, 2024 | Dr. Rich Lane

We're excited to announce some fantastic new updates and improvements to DataOT! These enhancements are designed to provide even more power, speed, and flexibility to your platform, helping you optimize your content management and eCommerce operations effortlessly.

Key Highlights:
Faster Page Loads: Our new Dslugs configuration queries are now cached, leading to faster loading times across your site. Plus, Dslugs now support slashes, making them full direct URLs for greater flexibility in navigation.

Enhanced Product Management: Product descriptions now support Markdown, with a legacy mode for older content, making content management more streamlined. We’ve also added support for Markdown and JSON inputs in custom fields, providing a cleaner, safer way to manage your content.

Improved Caching: We’ve introduced system function cache controls for catalogs and products, allowing pages with catalog or product data to be cached for up to a week. This means improved speed and performance, with the cache only refreshing when content is updated.

Ecommerce Upgrades: Product sizes now include both dimensions and weight, as well as packed (boxed) sizes, offering more detailed information to customers. Payment forms have also been upgraded to send billing details to payment processors, ensuring smoother transactions.

SEO Boost: The new Build Meta function can now automatically generate all metadata, including schema, for various types of pages like articles, products, and websites. This is a huge SEO boost, ensuring your content is optimized and structured for search engines.

General Improvements: We've cleaned up the codebase for smoother operation and added better handling of imports with toast notifications, so you know exactly when a process starts and finishes.

This latest update strengthens the reliability, speed, and functionality of DataOT, ensuring you're equipped with the tools you need for superior content and eCommerce management. Whether you're managing products or optimizing your site for SEO, DataOT continues to offer best-in-class solutions with every update!

Stay tuned for more exciting features, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions or feedback.

New

General: Dslugs: Dslug config queries are now cached for faster loading of pages.
Admin: Webapps: Dslugs now support slashes, making dslugs entire direct URLs.
Admin: Ecomm: Product descriptions are now markdown with a legacy mode for sites that have older description content.
Admin: Ecomm: Product custom field textarea now support markdown and JSON inputs. This allows for a safer and cleaner way to manage content on a DataOT instance.
Admin: Ecomm: Catalog custom field textarea now support markdown and JSON inputs. This allows for a safer and cleaner way to manage content on a DataOT instance.
Admin: Ecomm: System function cache controls for catalogs. Allows for pages with catalog information to be cached for upto a week and only break the cache when a catalog is updated.
Admin: Ecomm: System function cache controls for products. Allows for pages with product information to be cached for upto a week and only break the cache when a product is updated.
Admin: Ecomm: Products can now have product size and weight dimentions as well as packed (boxed) sizes.
Admin: Ecomm: Form payments now additionally send billing address, city, country, state, and ZIP to payment processor if the values exist.
Admin: General: Build meta function that can generate all meta data including schema for pages based on type. Currently supports articles, products, website and many more.
Admin: Import: All imports now produce toast notification when starting and completing their background jobs.

Update

Admin: Ecomm: Dynamic slugs for product settings now loads and saves correctly.
Frontend: Ecomm: First load of a website correctly saves the cart token without an error message.
General: Dslugs: Added additional string information for situtations where system function caches don't return a value.

Change

Admin: Ecomm: Package dimentions and weight now saved as an integer.
Admin: General: Update to existing links to remove trailing slashes.
Admin: Ecomm: Product import updates will now update only the columns you upload rather than deleting the columns missing.
Admin: API: Direct CLI API access from instance updated to use new internal parameter. This will save on API call quota for a local call.
Admin: General: On going code cleanup.