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BigYellowKey News
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Released: 7/30/2011 11:50:00 PM
We've now got 4 maillists you can signup to, eg "My BYZ Updates" for personalized upgrade info on your products so that you get informed as soon as a new version of *your products* come out. click here for more info.
Released: 4/12/2011 6:00:00 AM
Twitter: You can now keep up with BigYellowKey developments/news using twitter: http://twitter.com/bigyellowkey If you're a Twitter user, Click the "Follow" link on http://twitter.com/bigyellowkey to keep up to date.
Released: 4/9/2011 2:05:00 PM
Do you sell website tools/applications? We are currently looking for developers and software vendors to help beta-test the new system. Want to sell your own stuff via this site? Contact us and beta-test the system and see what you think.
Released: 3/26/2011 2:05:00 PM
Our software has now been categorized on the right-panel of the site, so you can get a quick/easy overview of what's available.
Released: 3/10/2010 2:05:00 PM
Twitter: You can now keep up with BigYellowZone releases and news using twitter: http://twitter.com/bigyellowzone If you're a Twitter user, Click the "Follow" link on http://twitter.com/bigyellowzone to keep up to date.
Released: 12/14/2009 2:45:00 PM
VPASP V7 status for BigYellowZone Addons:
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Released: 8/25/2009 2:05:00 PM
We've decided to extend the discounting of the BYZ subscription services, where the initial fee element is reduced by the cost of BYZ Addons that you've purchased in the last 12 months. This relates to the subscription services of BYZ147, BYZ148, and BYZ149. The reduced price will be shown when you get to the confirm-order page (ie after you have entered your domain).
Released: 4/25/2009 10:45:00 AM
BYZ Subscription Services added! You can now subscribe to get addons, or hosting, or both. For people who have bought BYZ addons in the last 12 months, you can trade-in what you've spent on addons in the last 12 months against a reduction in the relevant initial-fee element of the subscription service. This trade-in offer will only last for the next 30 days, so trade-in now! This trade-in relates to BYZ147, BYZ148, and BYZ149. See "subscription services" in the right-panel above or click on "services list" at the top. You'll get/see your discounted price of the subscription when you get to the final "confirm order" page (ie before you make payment, but after you've chosen your domain(s)). For example, if you've spent £120 on BYZ addons in the last 12 months, then you can get BYZ147 for just £37. If you've spent £200 on BYZ addons in the last 12 months then BYZ147 would only cost you £7. The prices concerned relate to prices excluding vat/tax and do not include installation cover/services. PLEASE NOTE: If you already have BYZ072/02 (Installation Cover) then that installation cover becomes invalid after you subscribe.
Released: 4/14/2009 2:00:05 PM
The My-Software screen has been changed to show a traffic-light system which shows a red cross for any modules which need upgrading, and a green tick for any modules which are up to date, which allows you to see at a glance if you need upgrades. NOTE: Please check your my-software screen regularly to see if upgrades are available.
Released: 4/14/2009 2:00:00 PM
Upgrade protection has been added which you can optionally purchase whenever you buy new modules, domains, or upgrade. It will give you permanent cover against the cost of future software upgrades for your module/domain. This is a major change to the bigyellowkey.com system; please let us know if you have any problems/questions.
Released: 2/23/2009 11:05:00 PM
**Notice: There was a temporary glitch with the bigyellowkey.com checkout process today; we have now investigated/fixed the problem. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Released: 12/1/2008 12:00:01 AM
VAT Reduced to 15% - Following the recent government announcements in the UK, VAT (only payable on orders placed from the EU) has now been reduced from 17.5% to 15% with immediate effect from Midnight 1st December 2008, and will remain at 15% for 13 months. All of the bigyellowkey.com ordering and payment processes have been changed to accommodate this. Customers outside the EU do not pay any VAT. Customers from the UK always pay VAT. Customers from the EU (but outside the UK) who have a valid VAT/Tax number do not pay vat. Customers from the EU (but outside the UK) who do not have a valid VAT/Tax number pay VAT.
Released: 11/10/2008 1:05:00 PM
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) section has been added. Click on the Help link at the top of the page, or click on the FAQs link on the right panel help section.
Released: 10/17/2008 5:05:00 PM
What's New Link added to the top of the BYK screens. This allows you to see all new software released, and all new versions (upgrades) released, in descending date order. Want to know what's been happening on the software front? Just click on "what's new?" at the top of the screen.
Released: 9/2/2008 6:00:00 PM
New Software Vendor! SQLInjectionScanner.com (a sister company of BigYellowZone) is now using the BigYellowKey.com site to distribute anti-hacker tools and other products/services which site owners will find very useful. Visit SQLInjectionScanner.com for more info. If you previously bought the BYZ "hack checker", then check your my-software screen to grab the latest update; it has now become the "SQLInjectionScanner.com Scanner" and the new version has lots more features. A data cleaner is also available, as are check/fix services.
Released: 11/22/2007 4:29:00 PM
Mail-Lists (with discounts) added. Your profile now has a mail-list option at the bottom where you can optionally sign up to mail-lists. Some mail-lists will give you discounts (these discounts will be explained on the mail-list description). Default will always be "no sign up" for any customer, either historic or new customers. You will need to explicitly tick the sign-up box and save the changes to get added to the mail-list (and receive the relevant discount).
Released: 10/16/2007 11:57:00 AM
Live/Archived radio buttons fixed - the live/archived/all radio buttons at the top of your "My Software" (and other "My") screens have now been fixed. They were previously one-step behind what you pressed, but are now correct and automatically refresh as soon as you click on one of the radio buttons.
Released: 10/16/2007 11:56:00 AM
localhost assigned for free - you can now add localhost to any of your licenses during purchases/upgrades, or via your "My Domains" tab, and it will automatically give you the localhost key for free.
Released: 10/16/2007 11:55:00 AM
New version of byk released - if your customer control panel shows you the login screen, then please login again. Once logged in you will no longer need to login again.
Released: 10/11/2007 12:30:00 PM
Upgrade fix applied. There was a problem when upgrading Backfilled BYZ licences, this has now been fixed, but if you upgraded on BYK prior to this news item being added then go into your "My Software" screen, and check if you have multiple versions of a given product for a given domain; if you have multiple versions then press the archive link on the old versions, then go to your license keys page and create a new license key file, then download that key file and upload it to your site.
Released: 10/8/2007 11:50:00 PM
Sub-Modules added to your software lists - We have now ensured that all of your sub-modules are now listed for your main modules on your software screen. This means that you can now upgrade/download either the main module, and/or the sub-modules. Our upgrading and purchasing procedures use "intelligent" bundling, whereby if you've upgraded/bought all the corresponding sub-modules then you'd automatically also be assigned all appropriate parent bundls, and if you buy/upgrade a bundle then it will automatically assign access to all the sub-modules as well. Checkout your "My Software" screen, as it may now be showing you additional/new sub-modules.
Released: 9/28/2007 8:15:00 AM
BYZ Interface Improved - We have now changed our sister site (bigyellowzone.com) so that you will only get directed to bigyellowkey when you checkout, and not each time you add an item to your cart. This means that you can continue freely shopping/browsing on bigyellowzone.com without having to jump between byk/byz sites for each item. Note that for upgrades you should always use bigyellowkey.com for browsing/purchasing, and not bigyellowzone.com.
Released: 9/25/2007 11:45:00 PM
Version History Displays - We've added a link on the product-codes on your "My Software" screen which will popup a printer-friendly page that displays all the product details and the full version history (ie all the release notes of all versions) so that you can now see if you want/need to upgrade specific modules.
Released: 9/23/2007 2:05:00 PM
We're Live ! - BigYellowKey.com has now become a live system. There might be some teething questions/problems following its release, so if you have any questions/problems then please do let us know.

Predictive Searches for VP-ASP - BYZ161

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Creates a google-style predictive search field to your site so that customers can get preliminary search results while they type in their search text.



Predictive Searches for VP-ASP - BYZ161
Latest version:11/01-FEB-2012
From vendor:Big Yellow Zone
Price:£25.00
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Compatibility, Bundling, and Status Notes:
Compatible with VPASP V4.5 to V7
Before installing, you must have installed:
BYZ038
BYZ036
This product includes:
BYZ038
BYZ036

Click here for demo - our demo area is loaded with most of the SEO modules, BYZ110 for static content pages, BYZ163 for static product-detail pages, BYZ164 for static category pages, BYZ116 for enhanced searching/paging, BYZ121 for related-categories on search results, BYZ158 for the browsable sitemap, BYZ161 for predictive search on the search mini-form at the top.

What is a "predictive search" ? Well, it's what google does when you go to google.com and start typing something into the search box - google gives you a list of candidates for what you're typing in while you're typing it in, which allows you to refine your search as you're typing and gives you an idea of what kind of searches you might want to try.

This module does the same kind of thing but for your products, so that while a customer is typing in their search keyword it'll show them the results in a very small overlaying section which changes as they're typing their keyword in.

It's only when you and your customers start using it that you'll realise just how useful it is to have on your site, and how much easier it makes it for your customers to find what they're after. It saves your customers masses of time because they don't need to wait for a whole page to load before they get a result.

It's one of those things that looks very simple, but changes (for the better) the whole way that people try to find things. Customers are much more likely to stay on your site if they can see quickly if what they're after is for sale on your site.

Demos and Live/Real Examples:

Click Here For Demo
The Cheese and Wine Shop - Live/Real Site Example
Rain Harvest Systems - Live/Real Site Example


Technical/Developer Information:
The display/formatting of the overlaying section (ie the results of the predictive search), and the query logic that it uses, are both in separate files and are easy to tweak.

By default it will use the same keyword criteria and sorting as your shopdisplayproducts.asp page would use when actually performing a keyword search, although you can change the predictive search to do a different query/sort if you want without effecting the full/normal search.

The maximum number of records that it shows on the predictive results block (which is 5 by default) can be changed during installation as it's an argument on the "show search form" function that you paste into your header file when installing.

If you're also using BYZ116 (V11 or later) then you can enable "intelligent" mode on the predictive search to improve the search logic from the standard vpasp search.

See also: How can I improve the keyword/text search results from my search miniform?

This module is also very easy to install.

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For further information from the vendor about this product, please visit:
http://www.bigyellowzone.com/publicdemos/default.asp?code=BYZ161

Full Version History:
VerNo Version Date Release Notes
01 15-OCT-2009 Initial version - Big Yellow Zone Predictive Searches for VP-ASP
02 13-NOV-2009 Changed the product search query to only select columns that are used within the display, and added relevant comments to the corresponding places in the code. This is done because a select * takes a lot longer and uses up a lot more memory than selecting just a handful of relevant columns, however this is only noticeable with a large number of records.
Changed files to stop html warnings/errors when validating against HTML validators.
Changed results display to strip html tags out of the description.
Effected files:
README.htm (changed file)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_form_home.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_js.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_results_displays.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_results_queries.asp (changed file)
03 26-NOV-2009 Changed counting logic to use CLng instead of CInt to avoid overflow errors when very large number of records are retrieved.
Effected files:
README.htm (changed file)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_results.asp (changed file)
04 08-DEC-2009 Changed to cater for special characters in search string by using encoding.
Added autocomplete=off for the search field so that browsers dont use the default browser auto-fill/complete popup which was obscuring the predictive search popup.
Effected files:
README.htm (changed file)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_form_admin.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_form_home.asp (changed file)
byz_pes_js.asp (changed file)
05 25-JAN-2010 Changed installation notes and program files to cater for VPASP V7.
Upgraded BYZ038 (from V10 to V11)
Upgraded BYZ036 (from V05 to V06)
Effected files:
README.htm (changed file)
README_history.htm (new file)
README_installation65.htm (new file)
README_installation7.htm (new file)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)

V7 Files Only:
byz_pes_css.asp (changed file for vpaspv7+ only)
byz_pes_results.asp (changed file for vpaspv7+ only)
byz_pes_results_queries.asp (changed file for vpaspv7+ only)
06 06-FEB-2010 Changed to cater for situations where clicking on product tabs were causing the url of the whole page to change to the home page; this was due to a conflict in the onclick event triggers on VPASP V7.
Upgraded BYZ038 (from V11 to V12)
Upgraded BYZ036 (from V06 to V07)
Effected files:
README*.htm (changed files)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)

V7 Files Only:
byz_pes_js.asp (changed file for vpaspv7+ only)
07 14-APR-2010 Deleted the magnifying glass icon/call.
Made the keyword search field shorter.
Added extra options to allow for intelligent keyword searches (you need to also have BYZ116 V11 or above to enable intelligent keyword searches, the default keyword search for BYZ161 is standard (non-intelligent) vpasp keyword searches).
If upgrading from a previous version, please note that the byz_pes_vars_inc.asp file has to be included in your byz_sys_global_vars_inc.asp file (see installation notes for more info).
Effected files:
README*.htm (changed files)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_$config.asp (new file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_inc.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_form_home.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_results.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_results_queries.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_results_queries_keywords.asp (new file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_search.png (deleted file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_vars_inc.asp (new file for all vpasp versions)
08 08-JUL-2010 Added extra config options and generated a more specific query so that site owners dont need to manually tweak the byz_pes_results_queries.asp and byz_pes_results_displays.asp files.
Effected files:
README*.htm (changed files)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_$config.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_vars_inc.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_results_queries.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
09 18-JUL-2010 Changed keyword-splitting logic to treat commas in the search string like spaces.
Effected files:
README*.htm (changed files)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_results_queries_keywords.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
10 27-MAR-2011 Upgraded BYZ038 (from V12 to V13)
Upgraded BYZ036 (from V07 to V08)
Changed product match and customer match logic.
Centralised category and product core query restrictions.
NOTE: To upgrade to V10 or later of BYZ161, you must ensure youre using BYZ038 V13 or above first.
Effected files:
README*.htm (changed files)
byz$161_version.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
byz_pes_results_queries.asp (changed file for all vpasp versions)
11 01-FEB-2012 Upgraded BYZ038 (from V13 to V15)
Upgraded BYZ036 (from V08 to V10)
Changed the display of the products in the popup to deal with situations where the product description (cdescription) value is blank.
Effected files:
README*.htm (changed files)
vpaspv7andabove/byz$161_version.asp (changed file)
vpaspv7andabove/byz_pes_results_displays.asp (changed file)
vpaspv65andbelow/byz$161_version.asp (changed file)
vpaspv65andbelow/byz_pes_results_displays.asp (changed file)