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How to set order your products in store
3 Apr 2016

1. Set a sequence on Selling Details tab to order this product: This sequence will be used in "All" category 2. Set the sequences on Categories tab to set the order of this product in any categories: This sequences will be used in the corresponding categories

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How to enable desktop notification?
11 Nov 2015

When you get a new desktop notification, your browser will ask for your permission to show the desktop notification by default. Chrome: Click the "Allow" button in the pop up Firefox: Select "Always Show Notifications" You can always change the notification permissions for a site. Chrome: go to Settings click the "Show advanced settings" link at bottom click the "Content settings" button in Privacy section scroll down to "Notification" section click the "Manage exceptions..." button Firefox: Open...

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How to check your ReST service returns expected format/values?
14 Aug 2015

You can view all the ReST services and their details via CMS/RESTful API You can also try or edit a ReST service here To set up a sanity check for a ReST service, click the "Edit" button, and go to "Sanity" tab Click "Add" button to add a new sanity check or click one check to edit it. Enter the additional path, and all parameters, the results section will show you the response status and response JSON Click "Add" button in the "Checks" section to add one check for this sanity check. Enter the JSON...

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How to use site default article template
9 Oct 2014

Each CMS site could have one default article template, you can set it in the Admin tab of the site data entry screen. Select Handlebars as the default article parser, then enter the handlebar template When you insert an article compoent in a page, it will look like: Then you can add your style sheet to change the looking of the article

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Online store product shipping rates
1 Aug 2014

Overview When you have a E-Commerce store you need to define your shipping rates & rules. You'll probably want to configure more than one type of service, so that your customers can choose from a range of delivery costs. In particular, you should remember that it will cost you more to ship to some regions than others, so you're likely to need more than one shipping rate if you send products across long distances as well as locally. The shipping rates will be likely based on the size and weight of...

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How to show RRP in online store?
14 Jul 2014

Go to Store/Products menu, edit the product you wish to show the RRP, go to Selling Details tab, enter RRP in Details section and check the "Show RRP" checkbox. Now the RRP is shown in the product page of the online store

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How to use the site and page configuration xml
2 Jun 2014

Sample xml:

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How to set the store PayPal account?
23 Apr 2014

Go to Admin/Settings menu, Database tab, you can find the Default Pay Pal Account dropdown and Use Live PayPal Server checkbox in Financials section. You can select a PayPal account or create a new PayPal account By checking "Use Live PayPal Server" checkbox, all purchases from the store will be real money transactions, uncheck this checkbox to use PayPal sendbox server (test server), no real money transfered. To create a account, please select PayPal as account type, and you need to have your PayPal...

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Meeting invites now include an attachment with the event details.
16 Apr 2014

Overview When people are invited to your meeting a special file will be included in the generated email which can be imported into their mobile phone calendars so that they don't miss your special event. Instructions Create an event with summary, description time etc Invite attendees in "Invite Others" tab Enter event location Click "Send Invitation" button in event screen The Meeting.ics file which could be imported to attendee's calendar(iCal, google calendar etc) is attached to this email Attendee...

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Beta test our new control panel
26 Mar 2014

Overview A new responsive design for the main control panel. Features include:- Responsive design Search box now searches articles. Latest emails Open tasks Alerts Password change, settings & log out Email Menu Task Menu Alert Menu Search Articles Try out the Demo Setup The control panel uses a new set of menus "CONTROL_PANEL_2". Any menu changes will need to be redone. Features Email Menu Shows your latest 5 emails Task Menu Shows your latest 6 open tasks Alert Menu Load your latest 10 alerts, ...

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New template "Munter"
7 Mar 2014

A new template "Munter" has been added to our Content Management System (CMS). Munter is a very handsome Bootstrap 3 theme. Comes with beautiful features like a fixed arrows navigation, a nice portfolio showcase and a smooth scroll. Sections:- Home About Articles Mission People Contact All site details can be updated via the site wizard Home page - mobile

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New template "Grayscale"
28 Feb 2014

A new template "grayscale" has been added to our Content Management System (CMS). This template is a fully functional, premium quality Bootstrap theme. It includes the following features: Easing scroll function for smooth navigation Fully Functional, home + 3 pages Website Home About Mission Contact Google Map of your office location All site details can be updated via the site wizard Home page - mobile Contact page-iPad

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New template "Business Casual"
26 Feb 2014

The Content Management System (CMS) contains a new template "Business Casual" Fully Functional, 4 Page Website: Home About Blog Contact Integrated article modules Bootstrap Carousel Built-In for the lastest published articles. Google Map of your office location All site details can be updated via the site wizard Home page Desktop About page Blog page Contact page

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What is the new Calendar?
18 Feb 2014

The new Calendar is a full-sized, drag & drop calendar. It uses AJAX to fetch events on-the-fly for each month/week/day. Select from the filters to change the date range and items displayed according to type, category, status and assign to. Items are tasks, events, sales opportunities or jobs which have been entered and scheduled to a day and time. You'll see items in the calendar. Click on the item to see the details of the item. You can switch between the calendar and timeline view any time. We...

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What is Web Forms?
20 Dec 2013

stSoftware's Forms is a web based designer stSoftware's Forms is a web based designer that enables web forms to be created quickly and easily. Forms can then be consumed on most common mobile devices from the internet, anywhere and anytime. stSoftware's Forms are integrated with stSoftware's Workflow to automate business processes and deliver rich cloud applications. Quick and Easy Forms Design Empower business users and enhance developer productivity: Auto-generate forms to support your business...

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HTML component accessibility validation
18 Dec 2013

When a HTML component is changed validations for the validity and for accessibility will be performed.

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Check your articles,email & pages Accessibility
18 Dec 2013

HTML code in the rich text editor to be checked click the Check Accessibility button to check Check results in another browser window

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New control panel pages
5 Dec 2013

Create new looking pages for QuickStart, Contacts, Business Units, Quotes, Jobs, Financials, Inventory, Purchases, Timesheets and Subscription QuickStart page: Quotes page: How to change the standard screen ? 1. Open CMS Site menu, open the data entry screen for site "intranet" 2. Click the "Clone" button for the page you'd like to modify, enter a path, eg: cp/myQuickStart and click "OK" button 3. go to Customize/Menus, open the Control Panel menu 4. Open the QuickStart menu, change the url to /...

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How to access ST data from Microsoft Excel via ReST web service
26 Nov 2013

Excel connection details 1. Click the Data menu, select Import External Data/New Web Query 2. Enter the XML REST address in the Address field, and click "Go" button, the login dialogue pops up, use your ST system user name and password to login 3. You should see the XML below it once you login. 4.Click the little yellow array on the top left of the XML to select the XML to import, then click "Import" button 5. select the position to import the data and click "OK" button to import. 6. Data imported...

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Drag & Drop files onto emails, jobs, quotes & contacts.
13 Sep 2013

You now can drag & drop to add attachments for emails, jobs, quotes and contacts. Simply drag your files from your computer and drop them to the "Attachment" section in email compose screen. You also can drag & drop files to tasks and quotes data entry screen to add them as attachments: Contact data entry screen accept files as attachments as well. Note: you can't drop files in the text area. It will break the drag & drop function. You can close the browser window and open the screen again to do...

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