Features

The goal of this release was to bring the ACS 3x ecommerce module' s features to an ACS 4x package. You can find a feature summary in the Features of the Ecommerce Module document.

Keep in mind that this release isn't a redesign of @package_name@ to take advantage of all of ACS 4x new features. It doesn't have multiple retailer handling, nor can package be mounted in multiple instances in the site-map and work correctly. For now, those whose needs are satisfied by the functionality of the old ecommerce module, but want to move to ACS 4x, should be happy. To everybody who wants something more, we would love your contributions of code! Please see the OpenACS SDM to report bugs (patches always welcome) or make feature requests.

For more details about the porting process check out this partial porting diary.

Requirements

• OpenACS
• Optional: Site Wide Search Package (4.0.1) and all its dependencies if you want to incorporate products into Site Wide Search

Known Issues

As this is an alpha release there are a few things that still need to be fixed.

• A number of auditing inserts are not working.
• The optional Site Wide Search interface results in the following error when a trying to rebuild the index after a new ec_product object has been created (ECOM_4X_DEV was the oracle user name):

  	ERR_INDEX_NAME		       ERR_TIMEST ERR_TEXTKEY
  	------------------------------ ---------- ------------------
  	ERR_TEXT
  	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  	SWS_SRCH_CTS_DS_IIDX	       2001-04-06 AAAGkQAAIAAAEh5AAD
  	DRG-12604: execution of user datastore procedure has failed
  	DRG-50857: oracle error in drsinopen
  	ORA-06550: line 1, column 18:
  	PLS-00302: component 'SWS_INDEX_PROC' must be declared
  	ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
  	PL/SQL: Statement ignored
  	ORA-06512: at "ECOM_4X_DEV.SWS_SERVICE", line 230
  	ORA-06512: at "ECOM_4X_DEV.SWS_SERVICE", line 260
  	

  I'm pretty sure that the bug is actually in the SWS code, not @package_name@. (wtem@olywa.net)

• Technical documentation is still a little rough. You should be able to get things working with the documentation as is. It doesn't cover how to find, download, and install a package. I suspect all that is needed here is a link to an adequate document, but I haven't had a chance to find it yet. If you have questions please email wtem@olywa.net.

We welcome any bugs fixes for any of these problems, please contact wtem@olywa.net if you come up with fixes and/or visit the OpenACS SDM

Functions "removed" from acs 4 stuck back into ec

Was:	Is:
util_GetUserAgentHeader	ecGetUserAgentHeader
qmail	qmail
qmail_send_complete_message	qmail_send_complete_message
logical_negation	logical_negation
one_if_within_n_days	one_if_within_n_days
pseudo_contains	pseudo_contains
ad_audit_trail	ec_audit_trail
ad_audit_trail_for_table	ec_audit_trail_for_table
ad_state_name_from_usps_abbrev	ec_state_name_from_usps_abbrev
ad_country_name_from_country_code	ec_country_name_from_country_code
fm_adp_function_p	ec_adp_function_p
util_IllustraDatetoPrettyDate	ec_IllustraDatetoPrettyDate