Recent Additions and Bug Fixes
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NATS 4.0
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=== Netbilling Native Join Option Description ===
You may now send a description of the join option to NetBilling using the NetBilling Native NATS biller.
=== Affiliate Documents Section Secured ===
We've added additional security measures to prevent unauthorized users from accessing affiliate documents.
=== Member Subscription Updates ===
When a member joins more than one site in a program, NATS failed to correctly update the member's subscription, but we've now fixed this.
=== Administrator Profit & Loss Report ===
The administrator's profit and loss report can now search by affiliate.
=== Extra Session Security ===
NATS4 now destroys sessions when you logout to provide additional security against attackers.
=== Duplicate Biller Charges ===
Editing a biller charge in the billers admin added a new biller charge entry, forcing you to manually delete the old entry. We've fixed this.
=== Limiting Displayed Adtools Didn't Show Adtools ===
We fixed a bug that prevented adtools from being displayed if you used the Limit search box.
=== Subscription Report Misprint ===
The subscription report claimed all subscriptions were under the type-in program. We fixed this misprint.
=== Custom Adtool Template Naming ===
You can now use "ign_" in your adtool templates. NATS will automatically ignores the ign_ when matching adtool template variables with the fields you define in the adtools admin.
=== PayVia Options Made Editable ===
You can now edit the options for the Check payvia option.
=== Math Errors on the Retention Report ===
Some variables in the administrator's retention report weren't checked for non-zero values before being used to divide another number in the template, which could lead to a display error. We now check the variables before using them in division.
=== No Data, No Pie Chart ===
When NATS tried to build a pie chart and there was no data for the pie chart -- for example, on a fresh NATS 4 install -- NATS generated an error. Now NATS generates a broken image icon.
=== Failed Postbacks Failed ===
The function that logged failed postbacks was failing, but we fixed it.
=== Shopping Cart Integration ===
You can now track one-time sales through a shopping cart in NATS4. For additional details, please see the following article:
http://wiki.toomuchmedia.com/index.p...ing_Cart_Sales
=== Automatic Currency Conversion Rate Updates ===
We changed NATS4's automatic currency conversion rate update script to use the most recent conversion rate in the currency conversion rate table.
=== Manual Sales Join Option ===
Adding a manual sale now lets you make the member a trial member or a full member.
=== Admin Overview Custom Dates ===
The Admin Overview now lets you view the statistics for a specific date or date range.
=== Disabling Adtool Date Limitations ===
By default, NATS4 doesn't show adtools older than a month, but you can enable a configuration option in Configuration Admin to make NATS4 show every adtool regardless of its age.
=== Affiliate Welcome Email Configuration Option ===
A new configuration option lets you send a welcome email to affiliates when they sign up to your program.
NATS 3.1
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=== Netbilling Native Join Option Description ===
You can now pass an optional description of the join option using the Netbilling Native NATS biller.
=== Gateway Cross Sell Security ===
We've recently made changes to our gateway cross sell system to provide greater security when processing transactions.
=== Content of the Day Templates ===
You can now use the NATS's Content of the Day Module's Use Template option to select a template.
=== ChargeMeLater IP Address Update ===
ChargeMeLater changed their IP address. If you use the ChargeMeLater biller, please submit a ticket so we can update your NATS with the new IP address.
=== Reseller Overview Report Now Includes Current Day ===
We changed the Past 7 Days Reseller Overview report to include today's information.
=== More Statistics Run on Slave Database ===
We've made additional statistics scripts run off an optional slave database.
=== Updated WebMasterChecks Dump Formats ===
You can now send payment dumps to WebMasterChecks in two new formats: WebMasterChecks Epassporte and WebMasterChecks Wire.
=== Member Email Addresses in Notifications Sent to Program Owner Decrypted ===
The owners of programs that securely store member email addresses as encrypted in the database will continue to receive notifications about the member using the member's regular, unencrypted, email address.
=== SegPay Double Currency Conversion on Chargebacks and Credits ===
If your SegPay account used a different currency than what you setup in NATS, credits and chargebacks could be converted twice, giving you incorrect amounts. NATS now checks the postback from SegPay for a currency type and uses their value if it disagrees with what you setup.
=== Sites Array Added to Member Password Retrieval Templates ===
We now include a Smarty array containing all of your NATS site information to the Member Password Retrieval templates.
=== Sorting Adtools by Date ===
A new checkbox lets you sort adtools by date.
=== Making a PayVia Minimum Exception ===
A new configuration variable, FORCE_PV_MIN_EXCEPTIONS, prevents the FORCE_PV_MIN configuration setting from applying to an array of affiliates.
=== Extra LocalBilling Fraud Analysis ===
NATS now sends LocalBilling a surfer's referring affiliate's campaign identification number, login identification number, and program identification number in the join form query string to improve LocalBilling's fraud checking.
=== More Editable Member Fields ===
In the Members Admin, you can now edit the member's email address, first name, last name, and add up to five custom fields.
=== Payments Not Storing on NATS 3.1.52.1 ===
If you use NATS version 3.1.52.1, please submit an upgrade ticket. Your payments will build, but they will not store.
CARMA 1.3
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=== Multiple Flash Movies ===
CARMA was not properly creating sets of Flash movies, but we fixed this and also added better log output when creating Flash movies.
=== Total Number of Actors ===
The carma_list template function now returns the total number of actors so you can split a list of actors across more than one page.
=== Additional MIME Types ===
CARMA now sends members the MIME type for all of the following media types: M4V, MP4, RealVideo, RealMedia, and Flash.
=== Filtering Duplicate Galleries ===
You can now prevent CARMA from displaying the same gallery even if the gallery is published in more than one section using the "dupe" parameter to the carma_list_favorites template function.
=== Corrected Count for carma_most_viewed Template Function ===
The template function, carma_most_viewed, now prints the correct total when you use non-default parameters.
=== Admin Sites Now Sortable ===
You can now sort the list of Admin Sites by any of the following attributes: site name, tour publish mode type, publish mode type, number of hostname tours, number of hostname members, tour URL, members URL, tour caching status, or members caching status.
=== Undeleting Sites ===
After you delete a site in CARMA, you can now click the Show Deleted Sites link and click the Undelete icon to restore the site.
=== Start Parameter Added to carma_upcoming Template Function ===
We added a start parameter to the carma_upcoming template function so you can list upcoming content on more than one page.
=== Full Navigation Added to CARMA Configuration Pages ===
You can now navigate between any two pages on the CARMA Configuration Admin using the menu tabs.
=== Related Photo and Video Sets ===
You can now quickly jump to the sets that feature an actor from the Actors Admin by clicking the links in the Content column.
=== Deleting a Site Suspends the Site's Publication Rules ===
Deleting a site in CARMA hides that site's unique content and suspends the publication of any new content to that site. Undeleting a site republishes all content and restores the publication rules.
On the Hotplate
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NATS 4.0
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=== NetCash Biller Update ===
You will soon be able to use NetCash in NATS4.
CARMA 1.3
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=== Improved Gallery and Video Stats ===
A new administration statistics page will let you see members statistics for a specific set. You'll see the names of users who viewed the set, the number of views, the most recent view, which member first viewed the set, and the gallery's rank.
=== Story Content Sets ===
Similar to picture and video content sets, you'll soon be able to add video content sets to CARMA.
=== Search Page Function ===
A new template function will let you include a search box anywhere in CARMA.
TMM Insider Tip
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Curious about NATS's newest version, NATS 4? We've prepared a guided tour of NATS4, highlighting all of the major changes since NATS 3, for both program owners and affiliates. The tour includes an explanation of the key differences, screenshots of every major screen, links to key documentation, and descriptions of NATS4's two new administration interfaces: the Includes and News & Notifications Admins.
Please visit the NATS4 Upgrade Changelog at the following URL:
http://wiki.toomuchmedia.com/index.p...rade_Changelog
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