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.