Mike,
Thanks for the encouragement! We'll be looking to do more regular
updates on progress from this point forward ... targeting every month or
two.
We're particularly excited about the mobile solution -- really a
solution for "small device" in general. The first iteration is pretty
impressive, needs a few tweaks to really polish up the solution.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
O: 516.742.7888 x221
C: 516.901.1720
On 12/7/2012 12:01 AM, Mike wrote:
Awesome work Nick. The BigFish project is an amazing product.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Nick Rosser<[email protected]> wrote:
All,
The latest release of our OFBiz / BigFish eCommerce platform is available.
For more details please visit http://bigfish.salmonllc.com, the "Demo"
section will provide a good overview of both an eCommerce implementation
and the BigFish Admin Module.
Of particular note, in this release:
* Support for Mobile (small devices)
o a very cool implementation!
o implemented for the Fashion House demo
(http://bigfish.salmonllc.com:**8082/online/shop/main<http://bigfish.salmonllc.com:8082/online/shop/main>
)
o whenever the browser screen size gets to 450 pixels or less then
the "small device CSS" will kick-in (so called "responsive")
o try resizing your browser down to 450 pixels wide, try from a
phone, it works!
o a little rough at the edges, we will be fine tuning this over
the coming month or so
* Feeds, Services and Scheduled Jobs
o a significant amount of work has been done in this area
o many services and scheduled jobs built around clients who want a
BigFish eCommerce front-end solution but also need to continue
using their existing ERP solution for fulfillment
o scheduled jobs to extract New Customers, New Orders and import
into the back-end ERP
o scheduled jobs to accept new files from clients for Product
Updates, Order Status Updates and Store Locator updates
* Smart Variant Feature Awareness
o Ability to understand a primary feature, associate to a specific
variant and act accordingly
o examples from the Fashion House demo:
+ search for "pink", if there is a pink colored variant it
will be shown (try "white", you'll see the same product but
the white variant will be displayed)
+ facets: click on a "red" facet filter, all products with a
red variant will show the red version
+ sticky: if the list page is showing a specific variant (blue
color) then the detail page will show the same
o all configurable, not just for "color" although this would seem
the natural usage given that this feature will naturally lead to
variant specific imagery
* Help System in Admin Module
o The beginnings of a BigFish Admin Module help system
o We have help for the functional pages
o But our focus will continue to be in the "How To" and "Guides" areas
o Basically approach is that the Admin screens are pretty self
explanatory, but how to do something from a business point of
view is more difficult to understand because several aspects of
the Admin Module may be involved
o Check out the first How-To and General-Guides, click on "Help"
in any Admin Module instance
* Performance / Scalability
o Many changes to take advantage of OFBiz caching
o Everything cached in the eComm implementation, nothing cached in
the Admin Module
o We couldn't find any useful documentation for this ... if anyone
is interested we have a help document available
And many smaller tweaks, fixes and enhancements As always, questions and
comments are welcome.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
O: 516.742.7888 x221
C: 516.901.1720
