V11 Features

[Benjamin Dyer]

Any news on when V.11 is due for release?

We are busy working on getting v11 ready for beta, usual conditions apply, but we should have something people can get their hands on for June / July.

Ben

[maroni35]

Hi Ben, do we have a solid schedule for V11 now given the Oxatis tie up. I know it is only July, but I am concerned about getting the new update done for Xmas. I would not like to be doing major updates on sites in Oct-Dec since this is such a key period. With a still no sign of a beta this is looking quite tricky, to get testing and work out the implications for the new features done by end of Sept.

Really need some solid dates now to be planning the potential upgrades.

[Webfaced]

As requested by the community, and for those that weren't at the customer conference, I promised to share the v11 features.

The core features are as follows:

1. Online Customer Accounts
2. Online Order History
3. Single Product Per Page
4. Single use Coupons
5. Improvements to SEO
6. Community niggles, as discussed already

...I hope the Single Product Per Page feature will be an option we can turn off!

We tear our hair out whenever we work on a client site with a section created for every product. It isn't an efficient way to manage a catalogue and any SEO benefits can be achieved in far simpler ways using custom variables.

Can you confirm please Ben... If V11 forces the use of SPP it may well become a show-stopper for us.

[Duncan Rounding]

I believe that SPP will be selectable at product level and that you will be able to select SEO features such as Page Name, Page Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords for each product page.

[Webfaced]

Phew... thanks Duncan!

[eck247]

So whats the latest estimate for a public beta release of V11 ?

[Duncan Rounding]

Rumour has it that v11 will hopefully be out in the autumn so you can work backwards from that. It will all depend though on how early testing goes I would expect, so dates could always change.

[lessharma]

Do we have a BETA release date yet on Actinic v11 ?

[malbro]

Do we have a BETA release date yet on Actinic v11 ?

It is in Alpha at the moment, I am guessing September for first Beta but I may well be surprised.

[Timo]

As requested by the community, and for those that weren't at the customer conference, I promised to share the v11 features.

The core features are as follows:

1. Online Customer Accounts
2. Online Order History
3. Single Product Per Page
4. Single use Coupons
5. Improvements to SEO
6. Community niggles, as discussed already

You have listed Improvements to SEO - does that mean including Social Media -ie Facebook Open Graph Protocols & Meta tags ... if not could you add it to wish-list

Thank You

[Peter S]

On the v11 single Product per Page will Actinic automatically create the Page Title (derived from the product name) and create any Meta description? Although one can fine tune these manually, when you may have thousands of products it will take a long time to get round to them all and it would be nice to have SOME wording. If not I will have to create some automatic features on my database to fill in the appropriate field(s) providing Actinic will allow these fields to be imported from a database?

[Duncan Rounding]

I expect the following but it may be different...
The page name will be automated with a numeric suffix at the end of the product short description but the other fields such as page title and metas will be empty for you to fill in. This could be done via the database or by import/export.

[Peter S]

Thanks Duncan and for the quick reply!
This gives me a good idea of what to expect and prepare for.
Peter