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• • Multiple Product Store support provided in eBay. Now user can have multiple Product Store and can maintain hierarchy to support multiple business using different product store.
  • Improved Ebay export screen and shown the WebSites that are associated with the Product Store.
  • Removed the dependency of search form on eBay from catalog component.
  • Improved associated association of eBay category records with Catalog. Created new category type "PCCT_EBAY_ROOT" and maintain heirarchy of category association with catalog. This provides clear picture and easy to understand association of category with the catalog.
  • Couple of error message improvements.
    • In case low ATP proper error message was not coming for any product while importing order to the system. It was redirecting the blank page with one line message, that was not verbose enough. Improved error message for this.
    • Fixed bug: Error or Success message was not displaying for buziness time theme.
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• Google Base

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• Work Effort
  • Improved and expanded iCalendar support. OFBiz can be used as an iCalendar server - enabling users to share calendar information using their iCalendar-aware client (Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, Windows Vista Calendar, cell phone, PDA). Users can publish department calendars, project calendars, company vacation calendars, etc. They can check on the availability of a conference room, or find out when service is due on a fixed asset - right from their calendar client.

• Facility
  • facilityId was not processed correctly in case of quickShipPurchaseOrder. This is fixed now.

June 2009

• MyPortal
  • System notes. It is now possible to notify the logged on user of any events which are important to him such as incoming email or tasks assigned to him.
    The last three messages are shown in the flat-grey scheme in the header. They are also shown in the mypage 'main' portal page. Can easily be extended to other system events.
    Using the firefox "update scanner' plugin at http://updatescanner.mozdev.org/en/index.html a user can be notified of new events even if you is not logged in if this plugin will interrogate the url: https://localhost:8443/myportal/control/showPortlet?portalPortletId=SystemInfoNotes&USERNAME=admin&PASSWORD=ofbiz (adapt to your system) regularly
  • System status. Also on the main portal page is a portlet of items which are 'open'. Examples are tasks which are assigned but not finished or incoming email which has not been dealt with. Also this can be extended to areas interested for the particular logged in user.
  • day/week/month calendar. On the myportal main page is now a calendar where private or public events can be posted within the same portlet. Projectmanager tasks will also appear on this calendar

• Order
  • UPS integration support for sending Shipment Return Label email to customer. This option will be available on order detail screen and as well on return screen when order is in COMPLETED status and return is in ACCEPTED status respectively.
  • Functionality for getting online shipping charges from UPS if an order is in approved status with associated shipment in PICKED status and it has been hold due to an overage in the shipping charges from Weight Package only screen.
  • Credit in case of order returns now can be stored in Financial Account of type STORE_CREDIT. Product Store now can be configured to set default store credit account type, either Financial Account or Billing Account. Now the basic process of storing credit at time of return will first look for a billing account with negative balance, if none found will use billingAccountId or finAccountId if explicitly supplied, else will store credit based on the default ProductStore setting. If a Financial Account at the time of Store Credit doesn't exists a new one is created.
  • PaymentPreference is now being created for cross ship replacement order.
  • Payment Authorization and Capture is now possible for replacement orders. Order payment preferences are created and payment method (credit card) is set for replacement orders. But authorization and capture of the payments was failing since the order grand total is set to zero.
• Facility
  • Introduction to "Weight Package Only" screen for the verified orders from Verify Pick process with support of UPS integration.
  • UPS integration enhancement for supporting shipping quote based on dimensions as well.
  • Recieve PO functionality was broken, there were some major issues with the database changes on receiving PO in different scenarios. This is now fixed.

May 2009

• PartyMgr / myPortal
  • A built in web email client has been completed for the receiving and sending of email. Further it is possible to edit other parties email if the relationship in the partyRelationShip entity is recorded. Emails can be converted into customer requests and assigned to tasks in a project and assigned to a project member all on one screen.
• Accounting
  • Support of Authorize.net 3.1 and use the new Payment Gateway Config features.
  • Integration of new RBS WorldPay Select Junior and support of new Payment Gateway Config features.
  • Added screens to see billing accounts and returns information under Fin. History tab in Party.
• Order
  • After a return for refund, now exchange order can be created against original order.
  • Added new return type "Replace Immediately". This could be used with returns for which items are not expected to be returned and even item(s) cost less then the shipping charges.
  • Added new filters on find order page. This filter is about finding orders ship to a country. This work along with the option "Include Only" and "Do Not Include". With the former option system will display only orders that are ship to the selected country and with latter it will display only order that are not shipped to the selected country.
  • Added Optional input field where user can specify an orderId while creating a purchase order from Requirements.
  • Enable audit for few fields on ReturnItem entity namely returnTypeId, returnReasonId, returnQuantity, receivedQuantity and returnPrice. The history of changes on these fields can be viewed through new tab Return History.
  • Adding the feature to show/hide out of stock products on site. This new implementation is configurable through a new field showOutOfStockProducts (by default equal to Y) on ProductStore.
  • Enabled audit on few fields on OrderItem to archive changes in OrderItem price and quantities as well as on OrderItemShipGroup to archive changes in shipment method for an
    order.This can be viewed through "Order History" link under Actions screelet on Order Detail Page.
  • Added an option to add a new shipping address from Order detail page.
  • Added feature to generate pick sheet PDF for an order from Order Detail Page.
  • Added few more search filters on find order page. They are shipping method, order viewed and PaymentGatewayResponse - gatewayAvsResult, gatewayScoreResult.
  • A zero amount replacement order gets created in held status when a return is accepted by using return type "Wait Replacement Reserved". If the return is not received within 30 days then all these replacement orders are canceled by a scheduled batch process.
  • New return type "Refund Immediately" which trigger refunds on when return is accepted.
  • New functionality added for when existing replacement order (in held status) get cancelled because of return is not recieved in minimum number of days, but if the return is received later on then a new replacement order will be created for the return received.
  • Added new feature to mark order as viewed.

• Catalog
  • Now Shipping Total adjustments can be applied using promotion. User can specify percentage discount on a specific shipping method. This may be used for free shipping if needed.
• Marketing
  • Added two new reports in Marketing component. These reports are related to emails sent, bounced and opened, subscriptions and canceled for given time period.
• Ecommerce
  • When inventory is found or returned for a Discontinued Item then update ProductCategoryMember so that this item is shown in front-end store.
• GoogleCheckout
  • Broken code is fixed in OFBiz trunk to send the cart details to Google Checkout area.
  • Sending cart info using Java API is introduced. Then saving Order is done based on the Order Notification is comming from Google Checkout server.
  • Other things are Introduced new entities to provide the configurable option for user on the GUI.
  • Couple of things are handled from Order Notification api like update order info which includes cancel order, charge order.
  • Introduced the concept to send Flat Rate Ship estimate to google and very soon we should introduced Merchant calculated Option for sending Ship estimate.
  • Provided link on the Ecommerce facing so that end user knows that this feature exists in OFBiz.
• Facility
  • Added missing Enumeration data for InventoryItemDetail Reasons - "Mis-shipped Item Ordered " and "Mis-shipped Item Shipped ".

April 2009

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