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Released: 7/30/2011 11:50:00 PM
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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.
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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
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Released: 2/23/2009 11:05:00 PM
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Released: 12/1/2008 12:00:01 AM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Product Attributes from Features/Categories for VPASP - BYZ175

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Product Attributes from Features/Categories for VPASP



Product Attributes from Features/Categories for VPASP - BYZ175
Latest version:01/01-FEB-2012
From vendor:Big Yellow Zone
Price:£35.00
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Compatibility, Bundling, and Status Notes:
Compatible with VPASP V4.5 to V7.
Before installing, you must have installed:
BYZ038
BYZ036
BYZ025

This product includes:
BYZ038
BYZ036
BYZ025

Do you want to make your features searchable so that when someone searches on "red" then it shows them products that have "red" as an available color? Or do you want to do a similar thing for categories to help get your google feed showing relevant options/info?

This module is for when you need to get "hard to find/query/search/display" data, and you want to put it at a level and in a structure/format that's easier to deal with.

By using attributes, you can structure your queries/filters, and displays in a much easier to maintain way (especially if you're using BYZ116), as it avoids you having to create loads of duplicated data manually at different levels, but you also still have the flexibility/logic available that categories/features allow as well.

Examples:

1) Turning features into lists on products:
You might have several different feature numbers for different color permutations, eg on one product you might have a red or yellow feature, and on another product you might have a red, yellow, or green feature. It's hard to search for a given feature with the standard structure, so this addon would allow you to create matrix data that you can use an "exists" clause on, and it will also allow you to turn those features into a relevant list on a products column. For example your product which has an underlying feature of colors red, yellow, and green, could be automatically put onto the products.pother5 field with a value like red|yellow|green (to be put into a googlebase feed), or {red}{yellow}{green} (to allow keyword searches).

2) Using more than one source for the same kind of attributes:
You might have some categories which relate to colors, and you might also have some features that relate to colors, but you then want to get a distinct list of colors that are available for a given product, and make that list searchable and displayable. This addon allows you to define more than one source for a given attribute (eg color), and it will combine all those sources together and generate a distinct list of attribute values for the product that can then be put into the matrix and/or on a products column.

3) Searchable fields:
As features and categories are difficult to do keyword searches on, this addon will allow you to automatically find/stamp the relevant attribute values onto products columns so that you can add that to your xsearchfields configuration option. In this way you can then make feature values searchable, so that for example if someone searches for red then it'll return products that have any features on them that are red. If your list of values is too long to put into a products column, and if you're using BYZ116, then you could also use the matrix table and an exists clause to setup search options and filters.

4) Display:
You might want to display the summary of attributes on the products summary page, for example you might want to have this on your shopdisplayproducts.asp page:
Available in: red, yellow, green
You can use this addon to populate such a list in a products column, and then simply use that column in your template, eg:
$Available in: [pother5]

5) GoogleBase Feeds:
In your googlebase feed, you might want to display the list of colors in a googlebase format, such as:
red,yellow,green
You can use this addon to populate such a list in a products column.

6) Filters:
If you're using BYZ116, then you can use the matrix (or products columns that you're populating with lists via this addon) to have dynamic filters so that, for example, if someone is viewing products in a given category then you can display a list of colors that are available for the queried products as a "refine your search" filter.

7) Avoid Massive Category Trees:
If you use attributes rather than category trees, then having filters and searches are a lot more flexible and lead to a much better experience from the customer side.
For example, you might have a category tree like:
Stationery>Pens>Colors>Red
Stationery>Pens>Colors>Blue
Stationery>Pens>Colors>Green
Stationery>Pencils>Colors>Red
Stationery>Pencils>Colors>Blue
Stationery>Pencils>Colors>Green


But, you might also want people to see the colors in the top of the menu too so that they can see the color first, and then see what's available for that color, eg:

Stationery>Colors>Red>Pens
Stationery>Colors>Blue>Pens
Stationery>Colors>Green>Pens
Stationery>Colors>Red>Pencils
Stationery>Colors>Blue>Pencils
Stationery>Colors>Green>Pencils

Even with just 3 colors and 2 types of products (pens and pencils), you can start to see that the permutations for what customers might want to search/filter on become huge. So if you want people to be able to look for "pens/pencils", or "red/blue" at the top level, then you need to start using attributes rather than a category tree.

By using this addon, combined with BYZ116 filters/searches, you can list relevant attributes values on your left panel, and use them as a filtering mechanism which gives the customer the appearance of a conventional category tree but is a lot simpler. Using attributes instead of a conventional category tree can turn a category tree of 10,000 options into a simple list of 20 sub-options, split by attribute type (color, size etc)

In the example above, the corresponding attribute list used in a BYZ116 filter (the equivalent of a category tree) would look like:

Colors:
Red
Blue
Green

Stationery Items:
Pens
Pencils

As you can see, even with this very simple example of a handful of options/items, the category tree of 12 branches that's hard to read/scan has turned into 5 simple options that are easy to read/scan, and BYZ116 and this addon allow you to put the attributes in any order (eg you can put colors at the top, then items, or vice versa, and you can also specify the order that the values should appear in if you don't want them in alphabetical order.

When you also consider other options such as sizes, materials, manufacturer/brand etc, you can see that the potential category tree equivalent would be impossible to create as there are too many permutations if you wanted customers to be able to see "category>brand" as well as "brand>category" etc.

So, this addon is a way to help steer your site more towards "attributes" instead of just being forced to have a massive category tree, but even if you don't use attributes from the filter (eg BYZ116) aspect, it will still help your customers find things (and you display things) and to generate googlebase feed values, without you having to rewrite your system or manually creating loads of duplicate/extra data.


Technical/Developer Information:
Product Attributes are setup in 3 stages, all of this is done via the "Product Attributes" admin screens that come with this addon:

1) Create/Edit the attribute reference data (specification)
This is where you define:
a) what your attributes are (eg "Color", "Size" etc)
click here for sample screenshot

b) where the values for that attribute come from (eg certain types of features, or categories under a certain highercategoryid etc).
click here for sample screenshot

c) where the values for that attribute are sent to (eg a matrix table cross-referencing the products with their attribute values, or a csv list in a products column etc).
click here for sample screenshot

2) Generate Attribute Values
This is a process which goes through your attribute source reference data, and works out the list of attribute values relevant to each product, and then it puts the values into your chosen destinations.
click here for sample screenshot

3) Analyze/Display Attribute Values
After generating the attribute values, this will give you a summary of the values that have been generated so that you can see at a glance the type of values (eg a list of colors) for each attribute that's been found across your products, and if your "attribute destination" for the attribute includes the matrix then it will also show you the count of products for each value.
click here for sample screenshot




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Full Version History:
VerNo Version Date Release Notes
01 01-FEB-2012 Initial version - Big Yellow Zone Product Attributes from Features/Categories For VPASP