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| What is new in VirtueMart 1.1? |
Themes are the new big thing in VirtueMart 1.1. Themes allow you to
style your shop the way YOU want it without having to fear that all
changes will be lost the next time you update to a new version of
VirtueMart.
Themes are the part where all the "Display Code" is stored (you have
heard of MVC - Model, View, Controller; all those parts of a software
should be held separately...?).
Read more about themes in VirtueMart.
Unfortunately, it won't be easy to upgrade an existing installation of
VirtueMart without losing most of the design changes you have made.
This is due to the new template structure. But there is an easy upgrade path.
Have you ever wanted to add new Fields to the Customer Registration Form? Now you can!
VirtueMart 1.1 will allow you to manage the Fields of the Registration and in the Account Maintenance. You can add new Fields (example: "How did you hear about
us?") or hide unnecessary Fields.
It's even possible to link the Newsletter Subscription of a new User within the Registration (as a Checkbox for example). If you're using YANC or Letterman, you can used this Feature.
All this can be done using the User Field Manager in the Shop Administration.
You can now syndicate your Products based on Categories! VirtueMart shows an RSS icon at the top of the category listing, so people can subscribe to that feed of latest products.
These two new Functions have been added to the VirtueMart Frontend.
These functions are similar to the existing functions in Joomla!.
In VirtueMart 1.1 it will be possible for customers to select another display currency so they can see prices in their currency. Say you have a European Shop that offers Goods to American Customers as well. These Customers will be able to change the displayed cCrrency to "USD" and see all Prices in their EUR ⇒ USD converted Amount.
It's possible to restrict the Currencies that a User can select.
You can even choose if you want to allow Customers to check out and order in another Currency that your default Store Currency.
It's now possible to re-order products in a category and create a sort order that is independent of price, name or date.
It's now possible to move more than one product at a time from one category to another one. You can do this at the admin product list if you have filtered by category.
Based on Ajax, you can add and update Prices for all Shopper Groups directly from the Product List.
If you open a product form from the product list, a Pop-up opens and you can make all the necessary changes. If you click on "Save" the product form is not reloaded, but its data is sent to your shop returning the result of the change (or addition). If you forgot something you don't need to fill in the value once again.
The product file manager has been reworked and now is the central media manager for each product.
This allows a more flexible product file management.
Note: In VM 1.1 all paths to product files will be relative, so you can move your shop quickly from one server to another one without having to adjust all paths in the database.
When dealing with product types and parameters you had always to
create the product first and then assign it to a product type in VM
version 1.0. This was complicated, because you had to access different
forms and finally go back to the product once again and fill in the
parameter values.
New: Now you can add a product by type (say: "Clothes") and directly fill in the parameter values.
For payment methods it's possible now to choose between a total fee (already part of VM 1.0) or a percentage fee (based on the order total).
Example: You can now start charging 3% of the order total when user XY uses payment method PayExample.
VirtueMart 1.1 will allow you to add new user groups for better permission handling. Currently the groups "admin", "storeadmin", "demo" and "shopper" are fix. Now you can add a group "manager", for example, which has less rights than an admin, but more rights than a storeadmin.
Shipping and Payment Modules need to communicate with other servers over the Internet. But sometimes it's necessary to go through a Proxy Server from your Webspace (e.g. from GoDaddy webspace). In VirtueMart you can set a proxy server that will be used for all external communication. It's even possible to use a proxy authentication. (Requires cURL library)
The famous "Apply" button, which was introduced in Mambo 4.5.2 to prevent being redirected to a list (but stay on the form), was added to VirtueMart as well now.
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