AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

I am designing a separate web app (ASP.NET MVC) to provide a support portal for my customers. This will allow them to ask questions that get persisted to a custom tables in the commerce database. I may well use it later on for FAQ conlib control. The user will select the product for which they have ...

The last GOLD release was on 3/17 (8302). I noticed a Service Release for R10 from just a few days ago. I also noticed there were some six "hot patches" on varying dates between 3/25 and 6/30. I have not done any of the hot patches. The question is whether the service release of 9/21 takes care of e...

Found the answer - essentially these files need to be downloaded, along with a less compiler, etc.

Docs here:
http://help.ablecommerce.com/mergedProj ... _theme.htm

I'm working on a custom theme and looking at customizing the bootstrap responsive theme. I see mention of various LESS files but the only LESS file in the zip download of the WAP is style.less. Within that file I see several @import statements and other less files, e.g., /less/buttons.less. But wher...

It looks to me that the free google implementation (Custom Search Engine aka CSE) includes google ads at the top of the search results. Or one can go the route of a paid plan (Google Site Search), the least expensive is $100 for 20K searches/year (50 queries per day). Chip's solution on this page mi...

Thank you Katie. I have voted for this feature. Meanwhile, I will look at other workarounds, including a google implementation, which might be the best approach.

I am somewhat disappointed that the search capability does not support searching webpages out-of-the-box. But I'm even more disappointed in the lack of guidance on how to implement. This is a very important requirement for my application. I would assume a search box would be a site search not limite...

I have a feature I want to implement and was wondering if I can get advice on the best approach to implement. Essentially, I want to have a list of books that complement each product I am selling. I will have a db table that has the ProductID and the ISBN(s), so there will have to be a simple query ...

Thanks Neal! I got it working. Much appreciated and have a nice weekend.

Thanks Ryan.

Easy in principle but it's not working for me - yet! I have a dedicated server and full control of the box (server 2008) so I'm sure it's possible. Do you know what needs to be configured to allow that?

Thanks,
Mike

Before I spend a lot of time on this, I want to find out if this is possible. I'd like to have extensionless URLs rather than ones that end with aspx. So something like http://www.mysite.com/gold-widgets I suspect this is doable but I don't see any mention of it particularly. And I'm using Gold R10....

Thanks Mazar. I had pretty much given up on a response so I was surprised to see an answer!

I wasn't aware it was up for a vote. It's a tough call because migrating an existing webforms store I'm sure would entail some work. I'd agree in the long run it's a good move but it's tough when you have an installed user base and I'm sure webforms will be here for years to come. Having said that, ...

Oh cool - thanks. I'll try that out!

I'm here in California and digital goods are not taxed. But if you want the product on a CD, it is taxed. What is the best approach to handling this scenario in setting up such products? I could have 2 different SKUs, but ideally, this would be one sku with an option that the user selects to get the...

Please read this excellent article about password masking, i.e., it is now believed (and I have always thought this) that new accounts should not mask a password and not have a 2nd text box for confirm. This becomes even more apparent on mobile devices. The article: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/s...

I make good use of hosts files for my development and qa environment, using one subdomain (staging). And it makes a lot of sense to then update the host on your dev machine to www before you push to production, just to make sure all is working perfectly before the push.

I have a need to do some custom tasks (mostly through console apps) and was trying to use the commercebuilder api for these. I've added various DLLs as I march through this process, including the various commercebuilder DLLs, log4net, etc. I found the CHM that documents the classes but I don't see a...

Very nice implementation! I've used bootstrap extensively on other sites but haven't had the courage yet to attempt to use it with ablecommerce. Maybe I should give it a go.

i'm up and running. I was mistakenly using an upgrade version and simply wanted a clean install. Got that working just fine.

I am trying to do a new install on my laptop (windows 7). And having a tough go of it. The install folder has a default.aspx.cs filed but no default.aspx. Please advise!

OK - some more data. I had multiple browsers open: Chrome, IE and FF. When looking at the admin area, there were a handful of anonymous users which I deleted. The problem went away at that point. The query was expecting a single, unique result and it evidently saw more than one, which was the error....

Unfortunately no luck. I disabled all plug-ins and extensions and even ran FF in its safe-mode. No joy whatsoever.

I'm testing locally with the latest version. Stock install. All ok in IE10 and Chrome. But when I try Firefox, I get a yellow screen of death. It doesn't matter which page I try to load, including admin area. query did not return a unique result: 2 Error screen: Server Error in '/' Application. quer...

This is useful for various post-order processing actions. Like sending order data to a warehouse. Emailing reports using console apps on scheduled tasks that interrogate the shop data through an api. It might also be used to support functionality not currently supported on the live site.