Just goes to show, you still can teach an old dog new tricks. A client needed a way to add an Engraving choice to the product page. Normally this isn’t an issue, just use the product variant feature. But in this case, the engraving choice must be optional. And it has to charge an amount. And it needs to accept some text for the actual engraved words. So after a little digging, I settled on a little-used feature in AbleCommerce known as Gift Wrap. Gift Wrap is a way to associate a secondary charge to any product. The basket ...
As of Gold R6… After upgrading an AbleCommerce 7.x website to AbleCommerce Gold, you’ll find the Junior Admin permissions do not work as expected. In the Old Able 7.x, the role name was “Jr. Admin”.   However in Able Gold, the role name was changed to “Junior Admin”.  This value is hard-coded in various web.config files as well as the /app_data/adminmenu.xml file. If you upgrade Able 7.x to AbleCommerce Gold, the value does not get updated.  As a result, the new Able Gold install cannot accurately identify a user as an admin user if they are a ...
When moving an older AbleCommerce 7 database from SQL 2005 to a newer SQL server, you might run into errors with the ac_searchcatalog full text index catalog file.   SQL 2008 doesn’t store FTS the same way it was done in SQL 2005. The issue usually appears when you try to restore the database backup from 2005 to 2008 or greater. To fix it, you have to remove the FTS file associated with the database.   But it’s not part of the SQL backup, so you have a problem if you didn’t copy the index file separately.   Here’s how to get rid of...
Wrapped up a nifty Amazon Order Import system for AbleCommerce 7 this week.     The client wanted to bring in all of their Amazon orders into Able so consolidated sales reporting would be possible. The import routine supports importing orders by date range, is totally aware of orders already imported and even maintains separate import logs for easy management. Currently it’s designed assuming Amazon fulfilled the order.  So there is no posting back to Amazon to indicate the Able shipment status etc.   I’d love to work with a c...
Several times I’ve run into the situation where I have moved an AbleCommerce store and CAPTCHA is broken.   Login page works fine, it just doesn’t show the CAPTCHA image. The problem (at least in my situation) was when I’m moving these sites, I’m updating them from ASP.Net 2.0 to 4.0.   To do this, I use the appropriate web.config file from the /Install/Framework/ folder provided by AbleCommerce. The only problem is the replacement web.config does not include the appropriate HTTP Handlers to drive the CAPTCHA control in AbleCommerce. The solution i...