Release Notes: August 20, 2020

Here’s what’s new with DirectScale the week of August 20th, 2020.

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🎁 New Features and 🌟 Enhancements for All!

🌟 Improved! Better Out of Stock Handling [Retail Site & Web Office] The shopping carts in both the Web Office and Retail Site have been updated to better support out of stock settings for product inventory. Updates included better logic for handling items with variants (item options like color/size) and more consistent settings between the out of stock settings in the Corp Admin and Retail Admin. 

🌟 Improved! Chat Search Improvements [Web Office] To better work with the new Recent and Unread tabs, we updated the searching experience for users in the back office to better find  their chat history or team members to start a chat with.

🐞 Bugs That Have Been Squashed

🐞Fixed: Visual Tree: Associate Type Issue [Web Office] All associate types that were not type 1 (typically your main associate type) were being considered retail customers. We’ve fixed this so the Visual Tree can accommodate more than just 2 associate types. 

🐞Fixed: No Filters Select Message Sticks [Web Office] When creating a report in the Report Center and setting the filters, the message that says “no filters have been set” persisted even after setting filtering criteria. This now goes away when you have filters. 

🐞Fixed: Not Logging Activities [Retail Site Admin] The Navigation, Login Events, and Checkout Settings were not being logged to the Activity Log. This has been fixed so updates to these admin areas will be properly documented. 

🐞Fixed: AutoShip Default Shipping Method Not Auto Selecting [Retail Site] Because the shipping method wasn’t being automatically selected to the default it was causing some unnecessary clicks and confusion with retail customers. This has been updated so the default shipping method is automatically selected. 

🐞Fixed: Active Checkbox on Item Variants Not Honored [Retail Site & Web Office] When setting an item variant (item options) in the Corp Admin there is a checkbox to indicate if that option is active. If this was unchecked the Web Office and Retail Site still would show that variant. This has been fixed so if the item variant is not active it will not show.

📘 Help Center and Training

📘New! Custom Fields Documentation [Developers] Added this documentation to provide details about using the Custom Field Tables and how to configure them.

📘New! Setting Up and Paying Commissions with Checks [Article] Added this to help customers understand more about setting up and paying commissions using checks.

🌟 Improved! Associate Detail [Article] Separated these articles from the Associate Detail article for visibility and focus:

• Impersonating an Associate's Web Office Login
• Changing an Associate's Status

🌟 Improved! Adding eCommerce Shop Navigation Links [Article] Updated with correct Menu Icon usage.

🌟 Improved! Locating API Key [Developers] Added Locating API Key section to the apigateway.directscale.com landing page.

🌟 Improved! Hooks Documentation [Developers] Added some additional information and context to the Hooks introduction.

🐞Fixed eCommerce Shop Banners [Article] Fixed inaccuracies in the URL to be used. 

🐞Fixed Adding Vendors and Creating Purchase Orders [Article] Fixed typos.

🔮 What Cool Things Are We Working On?

• Improving shipping package support and stock level enhancements
• Unifying the Admin experience across all our tools.
• Ongoing enhancements to improve Retail Admin’s ease of use and add new configurable settings.
• We are documenting the Advanced Settings for all three applications.
• We are gathering more code examples for quicker learning of custom development.

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