*Be sure to read the latest CSM-Core release notes.
July 10, 2024
Release Overview
Corrections
- Attempting to send a CSM listing’s attribute information to Magento would result in an error. This has been corrected.
May 20, 2024
Release Overview
Features and Functionality
- CSM for Magento has been refactored to use the version of the API Engine that was introduced as a standalone extension in 2022. This standalone API Engine features many improvements over the original API Engine that was included as part of CSM, so refactoring CSM to use this improved version will have many benefits. As Suite Engine develops new features and functionality for its Magento integration, this new version of the API Engine will be used. However, the refactoring process was performed in such a way that it is possible to execute specific API functions according to either the new or old API Engine in CSM. In this way, a current user of CSM for Magento can use newly-developed functionality with the new API Engine while continuing to use the old API Engine for all of their existing processes.
- A Get Specific Channel Order action has been added to Magento sales channels. This action allows a user to specify a single Magento order and retrieve it into Business Central. This is useful in testing and troubleshooting scenarios.
- Notes that have been entered against a Magento order are now included as part of CSM’s order retrieval process and are added as CSM order documents on the related CSM order.
- The Create Sales Channel Customer action has been updated to include a customer’s address information (address, post code, etc.) when sending a customer from Business Central to Magento.
- It is now possible to calculate and send inventory to multiple locations on Magento. This is useful in scenarios where a Magento user wants to provide pickup in store or click and collect type options, necessitating the need to maintain inventory on a location-by-location basis in Magento.
- A new Catalog Input Type for Store Owner field has been added to the CSM Item Attribute When a CSM item attribute is sent to Magento, this field is used to update the corresponding value in Magento.
- The External Requires Update field on a configurable item’s child CSM listings will now be cleared upon the successfully sending of the parent listing to Magento.
Corrections
- The Magento-specific Default Attribute Set Group ID field on the CSM Sales Channel page was being displayed for non-Magento sales channels. This has been corrected.
- When a Business Central customer was sent to Magento, the customer was not assigned to the proper store in Magento. This has been corrected.
Miscellaneous
- The Magento quick setup wizard has been updated to automatically set a newly-created sales channel’s Enable New Attribute Design and Use Shared Attributes fields to True, as these settings are required when working with Magento.
- A new automation routine to create new CSM listings from the item card has been added to CSM for Magento’s default dataload.
September 22, 2023
Release Overview
- The Imported Date and Imported Time fields on the CSM Order page were not being populated when orders were retrieved from Magento. This has been corrected.
September 5, 2023
Release Overview
- A new integration event to allow for overriding standard Magento gift card handling has been added.
June 21, 2023
Release Overview
Features and Functionality
- Magento-specific accommodations have been made to support a recent CSM Core change that allows CSM to retrieve an attribute set’s defined attributes from Magento:
- The existing attribute set retrieval functionality has been updated to automatically retrieve an attribute set’s defined attributes, then link them to the relevant attribute set in Business Central.
- A new Retrieve Attributes of Set action has been added to the CSM Item Attribute Set Card. This can be executed against existing CSM attribute sets to retrieve and link attributes from Magento.
Corrections
- Sales pricing for configurable item children listings was not being sent to Magento. This has been corrected.
June 15, 2023
Release Overview
Features and Functionality
- The results message that is presented following the execution of the test channel communication action has been updated to provide more clear information about test results.
- Support for discount allocations has been added to CSM for Magento. The Order Total Discount Allocation field has been added to the CSM Sales Channel card for Magento channels. In this field, you can select the method by which CSM will allocate retrieved line discount amounts from Magento. Options are:
- Not Applicable: channel discount information will be ignored by CSM.
- Order Level: channel discount information will be applied at the order level. Retrieved line discount amounts will be rolled up into a single document level invoice discount.
- Line Level: channel discount information will be applied at the order line level. Retrieved line discount amounts will be assigned to the corresponding channel order lines.
- Supporting data retrieval has been added for a number of records related to CSM listings:
- CSM Channel Categories
- CSM Attribute Sets
- CSM Attributes
This functionality can simplify setup activities by allowing users to instantly populate CSM tables with records that have been retrieved from the external platform.
- It is now possible to assign multiple CSM categories to a single CSM listing.
Corrections
- The out-of-the-box data load for the order status matrix contained a configuration that would not properly update a CSM order’s status after the related Business Central sales order was posted. This has been corrected.
- When a new customer record was created in Business Central from a retrieved Magento order, the phone number was not being properly assigned. This has been corrected.
- When a new customer record was sent to Magento from Business Central, the customer group ID was not included. This has been corrected.
- CSM listings for the children of configurable products were not being named according to the related item variation setup. The has been corrected.
- When retrieving configurable items from a connected Magento platform, pagination issues would result in not all child listings being properly retrieved and associated to the correct parent. This has been corrected.
- Product images sent to Magento were not being displayed according to the setting in the Use as Media Image field on that image’s product information card in Business Central. This has been corrected.
Miscellaneous
- CSM for Magento’s automated test scripts have been expanded to include additional testing scenarios.
- The process by which CSM determines whether CSM is in live or test mode has been moved from CSM for Magento and to Suite Engine’s subscription extension.
- CSM for Magento has been compiled against Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 (version 22) for compatibility issues. No issues were detected and no changes to the extension were necessary.
April 5, 2023
Release Overview
Correction
- When attempting to import items from Magento into Business Central to create CSM listings, a large volume of
records would cause the process to fail. This has been corrected.
Miscellaneous
- CSM for Magento has been compiled against Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 (version 22)
for compatibility issues. No issues were detected and no changes to the extension were necessary.
February 28, 2023
Hot Fix
Release Overview
- The existing process for retrieving credit card information involved reading each node of the data buffer, resulting
in slow order retrieval. This has been corrected so that data buffer records for the specific path/child are read.
- An incorrect mapping in the CSM for Magento default data load was causing the sending of sales order shipment
and invoice information from Business Central to Magento to fail. This has been corrected.
December 20, 2022
Release Overview
- Support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 (version 21) has been added to CSM for Magento.
- Functionality has been added to CSM for Magento to support payments made with gift cards, including split payment scenarios where a portion of the order total is paid with a gift card and the remainder is handled via another payment method.
- An automation routine for the automatic sending of CSM listings to a connected Magento channel has been added to CSM for Magento.
Corrections
- When multiple CSM channel extensions were installed in a Business Central environment, a duplicate Load Products from Channel action was being presented on all non-Magento sales channels. This has been corrected.
- The API Scope field on the sales channel did not support lowercase store codes. This has been corrected.
- The mapping for the STORESALESORDERLIST function was incorrect. This has been corrected.
- It was not possible to complete a shipment for orders that included configurable items. This has been corrected.
October 7, 2022
- Executing the Load Status Matrix Data action for a sales channel would sporadically generate an error. This has been corrected.
- Channel orders were being retrieved according to local time, while the Magento portal maintains order activity according to UTC, creating consistency issues. This has been corrected; CSM now converts all retrieved orders to UTC.
- The Channel Payment Method field on CSM orders was not being populated with retrieved data from Magento. This has been corrected.
September 13, 2022
Features and Functionality
- Support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (version 20) has been added to CSM for Magento.
- Magento-specific accommodations have been made to support the Role Center Headline Data table that was added in a previous version of CSM Core. Starting with this release of CSM for Magento, Magento-specific headlines are stored in this table and are available for display in the CSM Administrator Role Center.
- Supporting data retrieval has been added for the following data types
- Payment Methods
- Inventory Locations
This functionality can simplify setup activities by allowing users to instantly populate CSM tables with records that have been retrieved from the external platform. See the in-depth feature description for more details.
- Order retrieval automation now retrieves payment intent information from Stripe.
- It is now possible to create CSM listings with product data that has been retrieved from a connected Magento platform. This is useful if you have already created products in Magento, and would prefer to use this external platform, rather than Business Central, as the basis for your CSM listings. See the in-depth feature description for more details.
- It is now possible to run the Get External Inventory Supply action against multiple selected CSM listing records.
- Configurable item support has been added to CSM for Magento. Configurable items refer to products that are available in multiple, variable configurations such as color or size. CSM for Magento accommodates the creation and management of this item structure:
- The CSM listing wizard identifies items that exist as “parents” to multiple “children” records in Business Central which represent different configurable item combinations and creates multiple CSM listings that reflect this parent/child relationship.
- CSM listings for both the parent and children can be exported from Business Central and used to create new records in Magento.
- Updates to configurable attribute values can be used to create new CSM listings and then communicated to Magento.
- Configurable items can be loaded from Magento and used to create CSM listing records in Business Central.
Corrections
- The correct Magento store ID was not being retrieved when the corresponding API credential record’s API scope was set to . This has been corrected.
- Product images sent to Magento were not being displayed according to the setting in the Use as Media Image field on that image’s product information card in Business Central. This has been corrected
Miscellaneous
- CSM for Magento’s automated test scripts have been expanded to include additional testing scenarios.
- CSM for Magento’s default demo data load has been updated to store demo credentials in Azure Key Vault.
- CSM for Magento’s subscription management objects have been updated to include supported extension
modules.
April 13, 2022
Release Overview
Upgrade Instructions
This release introduces a new Channel Shipping Method field (field number 205) to the CSM Order table, which replaces the Ship Service Level field (field number 200). If you are upgrading your existing CSM integration with this release, you must make the following changes to ensure that your solution continues to operate as desired:
- Update your existing API mapping. In the CSM API Functions page, select the API function code SALESORDERLIST. Choose the API Mappings button in the ribbon, and in the CSM API Mappings page, locate the existing mapping for table 70338221, field 200 and update this field number to 205.
- Update any custom extensions that use the legacy Ship Service Level field to use the new Channel Shipping Method field.
Features and Functionality
- Magento-specific accommodations have been made to support the addition of a new Channel Shipping Method field has been added to the CSM Shipping Method and CSM Order tables and their related pages in CSM Core. This field replaces the existing Ship Service Level field, which is where an external platform’s retrieved shipment method code was stored. The existing field entered these retrieved values as Business Central codes, which resulted in a format that was incompatible with some platforms. The new field retrieves these values as text, which will support all data retrieval scenarios. See the upgrade instructions for more details.
Corrections
- When a CSM automation routine was interrupted or aborted, the Last Run Timestamp field was still being updated. This has been corrected.
- Ship-to and bill-to address information was not being captured on CSM orders. This has been corrected.
Miscellaneous
- CSM for Magento’s default demo data load has been updated to support new features introduced with this release.
CSM for Magento 2.0 Release
February 28, 2022
Release Overview
Features and Functionality
- License contact e-mail validation has been removed from CSM for Magento, as this functionality is now executed through Suite Engine’s subscription management module.
- Field captions on various CSM pages have been updated to use Magento-specific terminology.
- Channel credentials such as store IDs and secret tokens are now stored in a separate API Credential table, rather than API sets. This provides companies with greater flexibility in the setup and maintenance of Magento channel credentials. As part of this, the Credentialing Sales Channel field in the CSM Sales Channel table allows users to indicate that a particular sales channel’s API functions are to be run according to the credentials of another channel. See the in-depth feature description for more details.
- Supporting data retrieval has been added for the following data types: Shipping Methods, Shipping Carriers, Tax Groups, Price Groups.
- This functionality can simplify setup activities by allowing users to instantly populate CSM tables with records that have either been retrieved directly from a connected Magento platform or a default data load. See the in-depth feature description for more details.
- The ability to send supporting data information from Business Central to a connected Magento platform has been added for the following data types: Tax Groups, Price Groups.
- This functionality can simplify setup activities by allowing users to instantly create new Magento records from Business Central, or update existing Magento records with Business Central changes. See the in-depth feature description for more details.
- Several improvements have been made to API features for Magento 2 environments: Functionality has been added to support CSM automation list records with a blank sales channel code and the ability to send sales channel customer information from Business Central to a connected Magento platform is now supported.
Corrections
- Default channel order archiving settings on the CSM Setup page were not being assigned to new Magento channels that were created via the setup wizard. This has been corrected.
- Channel test communication functionality was not working properly with integrations to Magento 2 environments. This has been corrected.
- Duplicate sales lines were being created on sales orders that were generated from CSM order lines for configurable items. This has been corrected.
- A hexadecimal error was being generated when attempting to parse non-English characters, such as Arabic or Chinese. This has been corrected.
November 2, 2021
Release Overview
Features and Functionality
- Support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19) has been added to CSM for Magento.
- Magento-specific accommodations have been made to support recent changes to Suite Engine’s subscription management module.
Corrections
- Some fields on the CSM for Magento setup wizard were not visible. This has been corrected.
- Attempting to post a shipment with a blank tracking number, title, or carrier through CSM for Magento would result in an error. This has been corrected.
- Error message content was not being displayed on CSM API message records. This has been corrected.
Miscellaneous
- The CSM for Magento default data load has been updated to store last run timestamps against CSM automation records instead of API records.