Pulse (ELM5) Beta Release

A beta release of Pulse was made available earlier this week and we are now ready to make it more widely available. There are still some features we are adding, e.g. better pagination of long reports, more user options, but in terms of data collection, the module appears to be working well. Installing the beta will not jeopardize your data–each new release will retain your existing data. Get it here: Pulse - Store Statistics for Merchant 5
With us leaving for the Miva Merchant conference on Wednesday, updates are unlikely to be released during that time frame but we will be covering support.

p.s. Here are some of the forthcoming additions to Pulse:

- hide User Agents from general reports (so they don’t take up as much space). This will be optional though as many people get a buzz when the search bots show up

- truncate/wrap long referer* urls (need this in order to prevent long urls from bleeding)

- add pagination to long reports

These have already been partially implemented so we hope to have them available in the next update.

* Did you know that “Referer is a common misspelling of the word referrer. It is so common, in fact, that it made it into the official specification of HTTP – the communication protocol of the World Wide Web – and has therefore become the standard industry spelling when discussing HTTP referers.”?

Thanks Wikipedia.

Update 03/05/08: we’re back from the Miva Merchant conference and working on Pulse. Today we have added a product name field with sorting to the Product Stats, fixed a bug that arises when you are blocking IP addresses, and changed to Order Stats referer so that it picks up the initial referer–the site the visitor came from rather than the page that lead them to the checkout. (In hindsight, it’s obvious that’s what it should have been doing but these things sometimes get overlooked when you’re knee deep in the code!) There isn’t an update as yet as we also want to include a handful of other tweaks and fixes.

Hot off the presses, figuratively speaking, it’s Affiliate Manger - Login for 5.x!

Like it’s 4.x predecessor, the Affiliate Manager - Login module provides an interface that Affiliate Manager affiliates can use to view and/or modify (that bit is optional) their personal and referral data including hits, orders, payouts paid, and payout’s due. The layout and content of the pages are entirely configurable from within the module’s admin; the outer portions of the Merchant pages are maintained by Merchant “page templates”; and the main content is configured by the module’s own “templates and token”. The best of both worlds in that you can control things like the navigation bar, category tree, outer table, etc. in the same manner that you do with stock Merchant but you can control the main contents of the page from within the module’s main admin with our more robust, module specific, tokens.

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Update on Pulse

Well…we’d hoped to have this ready today but I have a shortened day–celebrating a belated Chinese New Year at my son’s (and wife’s) school. There are several cosmetic issues that need addressing but, more importantly, it hasn’t been tested extensively yet under the same condition that you will encounter when you install it, i.e. when the logs are still empty. So profuse apologies for the delay. Hopefully we can get some time over the weekend and have it ready for Monday.

Here are some screenshots so you know that it really does exist:

Product Flyout - AJAX has arrived!

The world of AJAX has arrived in module form to the world of Miva Merchant! We have just released a new 4.x module, Product Flyout, that allows you to mouse over products in your store and see a pop-up displaying the product name and description (think Netflix). Product Flyout requires our template modules and the OpenUI to work properly. Register Product Flyout as a Third Party Token, replace a token or two in your templates, and you will have dynamic pop-ups in your store!

The module is currently compatible with:

• (added 3/10/08) Storefront Template
• Category Page Templates
• Other Page Templates
• Product Page Templates (mainly for use in the related products template)
• Search Manager

The module is in beta and is selling at a discounted price of $40. After we test it out and work out the kinks, it will be priced at $49.95.

http://vikingcoders.com/go.mv?ID=LC_FLYOUT

We plan on releasing a 5.x version of this module as well. Be on the lookout for other AJAX modules over the coming weeks and months!

- Luis