AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Thanks Katie, I've forwarded your info. I'm sure it'll help. Are there any plans to have a global way to turn on restock notifications? Right now I have to do it with a SQL command. Many clients who want to activate this feature become dismayed when they learn that every single product in the catalo...

Does this feature work with variants, or only the main product?

What happens when feed is generated automatically without manually triggering it from page? That was my question too. There is no file being auto-generated. And there's no error in the error log, which is confusing because there should be something there. Nothing in app.log either. The error is jus...

In this case, it was any invalid aspx page name. I was just trying to get the PageNotFound page to even load. So even something like clientsite.com/blahblah.aspx would render the default IIS page instead of ~/Errors/PageNotFound.aspx. This client isn't even using extensionless urls so far as I know.

No I do not think so. Isn't that a store setting you can turn on or off?

After moving my entire hosting business to new platforms, an unusual behavior has appeared when it comes to 404 custom errors. The problem we're having is the default IIS error page renders even though customErrors = "on" and the 404 error is specified (default able web.config). I traced it down to ...

I've got a client with 94,000+ products in the catalog, each one has a digital good. When we run the sitemap generator page, it times out every time. I've increased the timeout from 2 minutes all the way up to 20 minutes. Still, the page times out. Any suggestions on improving the routine so it will...

Is there any way to quote all shipping methods in the store when an admin places an order through the admin order entry? In 7.x, all ship methods were shown even if they weren't available for the given shipment. There was an indicator with each method to show which methods were not available for the...

Good grief !!

Had no idea it was that involved, thanks for the help link - that will really clear things up for my client.

Katie can you elaborate on this one?

Implement Encrypted Website Payments for PayPal

Is this using the newer encrypted PayPal button where the page form can't see the raw PayPal button data?

I guess then most probably all third party hosting providers may have such maintenance plans configured on their SQL Servers? I've found the opposite in most cases. A lot of hosting providers don't seem to staff knowledgeable SQL database administrators. They know enough to host SQL databases, but ...

It has to be some sort of weird SQL index fragmentation issue. I've just never seen it happen to this extreme. I learned a few more things last night: Just deleting the catalog in SQL will break store searches in 7.x. Easy fix is to go into admin, disable full text search (it's a checkbox), then re-...

I've been moving sites for the past two weeks to my new-and-improved hosting platform. During the course of the move, I noticed a few of the larger sites had large SQL databases, like 7gb-10gb in size. At first I dismissed it thinking "they're old, they've got a ton of orders." But as I thought abou...

Aha! Found the solution. There is a SQL script in the original install files that upgrades the schema from SQL2000 to SQL2005. So you have to copy those files into the /install/ folder and hit the /yoursite/install/upgradeschema.aspx page. It threw a few errors because FTS was enabled in the store. ...

I'm moving web hosting clients to a new platform as part of my hosting upgrades this year. I hit an older Able 7.x install that refuses to run on the new platform. The only difference I can see is the Help->About shows the SQL schema as the old AC v2000 flavor. The new platform is running SQL 2014. ...

Static key in the web.config seems to have eliminated the issue. Thanks for the quick suggestion Katie.

That's only the second time I've ever seen that happen in my 9 years of AbleCommerce. It has to be a really, really unique set of circumstances to cause it.

ok thanks. Yea I suspect a hosting provider situation as well. But lack the ability to prove it much.

I should know in another day or two if the issue persists. If it does, I'll load up a static machine key and see if that fixes it.

I upgraded a Gold R7 client to Gold R12 this week. I walked it through each upgrade i.e. R8, R9, R10, R11 and then R12. Restarted the site each upgrade, checked the error log each upgrade. Shortly after R12 was done, the dashboard complained that the encryption key was missing or corrupt. I had made...

I don't know about what it supports, I just know where I had to put it. Yes both in the base.master and the fixed base.master is where you put it.

Any thoughts on this one?

I have. Easy to do, just load it in the layout file.

So has anyone modified digital goods to pull the physical file from Amazon S3 buckets as opposed to local file storage? Looking at the code, it seems fairly simple on the surface. In /DigitalDelivery/DigitalGoods.cs there are two methods ReadFileData() and WriteFileData(). Seems like all I need to d...

SQL 2016 just came out. I never even saw anyone using SQL 2014.

Mazhar has anyone tested Able Gold on SQL 2014 or SQL 2016? Seems like the supported SQL versions could use a little updating....

No the only way is to edit the original review and add your response text. But that doesn't notify the shopper. I built a plugin years ago and modeled it after how Lowe's does it on their website, very similar to how you described the Q&A feature. But it was only for Able 7.x and it didn't turn out ...