Since the last update
At the beginning of this month we rolled out the new agency feature that we had been working on for about a year. This month has been mostly about perfecting and improving this feature.
New Features
- Agency feature Thursday 8th July
- SEO
- Google Tag Manager has been embedded into the system to manage tracking tags used to measure and improve website performance(Video)
- Stock Upload
- Add “Reading Level” and “Series” on the Optional Header we can upload
Improvements
- Agency
- Show link to existing agency so shops can update the distribution rights.
- Agency is not searchable in AU site when when distribution right is set NZ only added ability to add AU.
- “This item only” should set the distributor as Default for that product only
- Rework the “(set) as” option for Distributor so the this time only is only for the selected item.
- Find a way to flag official distributors in the lookup fields.
- Removed eMail validation for Agency to cope with duplicate emails in the system. Need a merge project in the future.
- When you click ‘Create New’ in the agency lookup the setup page now opens in a new tab.
- Remove the eMail Validation for Agency setup from distributor. (just validation – eMail Address is still required)
- When you click ‘Create New’ in the agency lookup the setup page now opens in a new tab.
- Newly created agency was not allowing a duplicate email (we will need to address duplicates in the future)
- Display previous distributors to make it easier to set remaining agencies.
- Nielsen
- Enable the look up of more that 50 items at once by batching requests into lots of 50.
- Titlepage
- Move the TitlePage P&A lookup to the model so it matches how we are doing it for integrated suppliers.
- New Website
- Prod template now separated so that content pages added on beta only show on beta.
Bug Fixes housekeeping and sys admin
- See www.twitter.com/circlesupport for all changes including bug fixes.
Plans for the coming Month
Release and tidy
- New website layout (Aiming to push on Tue 4th July AH)
- This video (8:45) shows you how to check your site on beta, and tells your designers where to start.If you need a graphic designer here’s a list that have experience working on Circle sites.
Things we are working on that are likely to take longer
- Further SEO and website performance monitoring
- Bootstrap 3 upgrade in the back office (Currently in design phase)
New things we want to make a start on
- Rails 4 upgrade
Beyond the next month
- Use of docker to dynamically scale the system based on demand.