Release notes: 20241022_14490617

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Dr. Rich Lane

In this latest update, we’ve made several enhancements to improve the product management experience, particularly around e-commerce imports and bulk uploads, while also addressing key issues to ensure smoother operations.

A new feature allows administrators to define a specific root folder for product image uploads within the settings. This makes bulk imports from older platforms far more seamless, as product images can now be efficiently organised during migration.

Several improvements have been implemented in the product import process. Errors during imports no longer trigger retries, streamlining the process by avoiding unnecessary delays. If a product slug isn’t provided during import, the system will now automatically generate one using the product name, or the SKU if the name is absent. Additionally, slugs are now consistently slugified, ensuring uniformity, whether or not a slug was pre-existing. Product names also default to the SKU if a name is missing, ensuring that every product is labelled appropriately.

We’ve introduced further refinements by removing non-breaking UTF-8 characters from product names, slugs, SKUs, and other text fields, ensuring text data remains clean and error-free. Floating-point values in integer fields are now rounded up automatically, providing greater accuracy during imports. Another improvement ensures that custom fields missing from the import file will no longer result in schema column deletions, offering better flexibility in managing product data. To enhance user experience, task notifications for product imports will now be displayed upon completion using a disconnected callback, ensuring timely feedback without interrupting workflows.

As part of our commitment to maintaining modern standards, legacy HTML descriptions are now disabled by default, promoting cleaner data management and preventing compatibility issues with outdated HTML formats.

This update is designed to streamline administrative workflows and improve data consistency, empowering teams to manage product imports with greater ease and reliability.

New

Admin: Ecomm: Product image root folder for new uploads can now be set for new uploads in settings. This makes old site imports from existing platforms much easier with bulk upload!

Update

Admin: Ecomm: Legacy HTML descriptions are now disabled by default.

Change

Admin: Ecomm: Importing products now doesn't retry on error.
Admin: Ecomm: Importing products slugs are now automatically generated if they don't exist based on name (or SKU if name does not exist).
Admin: Ecomm: Importing products slugs are now slugified no matter if they exist or not.
Admin: Ecomm: Importing products names now use the SKU if it is missing.
Admin: Ecomm: Importing products non breaking UTF-8 characters are now striped from names, slugs, SKUs and other text fields.
Admin: Ecomm: Importing products interger fields are ceil-ed if they have a floating point.
Admin: Ecomm: Importing products if a custom field is missing from the import it no longer deletes that column from the schema.
Admin: Ecomm: Importing products tast notifications display when completed via disconnected callback.