New Extensions

Please do not forget to check product page of the extensions that might interest you – there is much more information like tips, FAQ, changelog, demos, videos etc.

Help Desk Ultimate

This is a new much improved version of our Help Desk extension. It includes all the features of standard Help Desk extension plus:

• Departments – now you can add unlimited number of support departments with their own attributes – email address, templates, etc.
• POP3 fetching and parsing – the extension gets all correspondence from a defined email address parsing the messages into tickets. It’s able to keep threads and add messages to the existing tickets by ID.
• Create new tickets from e-mail – any message sent to the parser email address without ticket ID can be automatically transformed into a new ticket, followed by admin and customer email notifications.
• Auto-expiration – automatically sets “Closed” status to tickets inactive for a defined number of days.

Don’t forget to check the product page for other features, these are not all.

Advanced Menu

This extension allows you to change your store navigation look easily. No need in PHP or HTML knowledge – just go to the configuration page and choose from one of the predefined looks and see how does it fit your store. It’s absolutely XHTML 1.o Strict compatible and has an all-browsers-valid CSS. In this version you can choose from the following modes: default, dropdown boxes, plain, advanced plain and static.

RSS Reader

Looking for an easy blog or a feed integration? Then RSS Reader extension is for you. It fetches and parses any RSS feed and integrates it into your Magento store. No troubles, fits any style and design, can be placed in any block, sidebar, header or footer. Besides other features we can highlight:

• Unlimited feeds – create any number of feeds in different locations of your store.
• Cache – instead of fetching the content from a remote server each page load the RSS Reader stores the data into its own cache.
• Custom CSS and templates – RSS Reader uses its own CSS file and custom template. In fact you may create as much output patterns as needed and use them on per instance basis.

Please go to the product page to know more about other options.

Browser Search

Give your visitors another comfortable way of searching in your catalog – integrate your store search directly in the browser! With the help of a simple XML you can add your search engine to the visitor’s browser, the search suggestions will be handled by the extension PHP code. Simple and effective.

Updated Extensions

Don’t forget to check full changelog on the product pages.

Featured Products

Current version: 2.2.2
Upgrade: Recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:

• Completely compatibe with XHTML 1.0 Strict
• All CSS Warnings fixed
• Invisible products are not shown any more
• One product can be added more to one category
• Added option to display product in slideshow only on main page
• Shows warning message if no products found
• CMS block syntax is shorter now
• Dropped support for magento 1.1.x due to magento layout bugs

Help Desk

Current version: 2.0
Upgrade: Highly recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:

• New kernel
• Quoting
• Attachments are sent through email
• External CSS files
• Tickets can be created from admin area
• Upload files limit
• Re-order replies, newer first
• Status can be set w/o posting reply to ticket
• “Waiting for customer” auto-status

Z-Blocks

Current version: 1.1
Upgrade: Recommended
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:

• Ad rotation function!

Promotion of the Month!

Enrich your customers experience with our Z-Blocks and Help Desk Ultimate extensions, today we give 40% discount when purchasing them both. Please use the following coupon:

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The offer expires 17 April 2009!

That’s all what were going to inform you about. Do not forget stay in touch, leave ratings and all kinds feedback, we are always happy to hear your thoughts. If you need a new feature in our product – just let us know – it has good chances to be implemented.

Thank you for being with us and good luck to your busines,
Sincerely yours,
aheadWorks Magento department

Bug description
Trying to search using any term in 2.2.1 sometimes results in fatal error:
Call to a member function getMediaGallery() on a non-object in /app/code/local/AW/Featuredproducts/Model/Entity/Attribute/Source/Abstract/Image.php on line 36

Bug is fixed and update is available on Downloadable Products page in customer area.

• Ability to use any custom image. Yes, now you can upload any image to your product images and make it invisible in the catalog and product page, and only visible in the Featured products. This allows you to upload bigger banners, callouts and images of any size.
• Faster images render due to server-side image resizing – a significant performance improvement.

It also contains several bug fixes. You can find all of the information and updates on the product page.

Your feedback and feature requests are always welcome!

In this version we re-wrote the CSS and HTML code so that the extension in completely XHTML 1.0 compliant, as well as the native Magento themes. Also, we made separate CSS for different browsers and got rid of CSS paring warnings. Other features of the release:

• Invisible products fix – they are not shown anymore
• One product can be added to several categories now
• Added ability to display a product only outside of categories, This can be useful when, e.g. you’d like to diplay only on the main page but not in categories.
• Added warnings in misconfiguration cases, more feedback from the extension to the store owner, it would say itself if there are no products to display

Unfortunately, we had to drop Magento 1.1.8 and earlier support due to layout bugs in those versions. However, you still can use Featured Products 2.0 – it’s a supported branch.

Please read the upgrade documentation, we changed the block syntax slightly so you may need to update your blocks in CSS.

As always, waiting for your feedback, feature requests and reviews!

We would like to invite you to visit our blog. Besides all kinds of interesting and valuable information it would contain current development spotlights and product updates keeping you informed about your product releses. You are able to subscribe to your product(s) RSS feeds and download the updates as soon as they are available. Please visit http://blog.aheadworks.com/

February 2009 was quite a rich on releases, so let’s start!

New Extensions

Please do not forget to check product page of the extensions that might interest you – there is much more information like tips, FAQ, changelog, demos, videos etc.

Help Desk

Nowadays we cannot imagine an online business without good customer support and case tracking and resolution system. This becomes a crucial point for online merchants and service providers. According to our recent studies up to 78% of respondents put customer support on the first places for consideration when choosing a merchant or provider on the Net.
Help desk Magento extension by aheadWorks is a perfect customer care and support solution for ecommerce sites based on Magento.

Z-Blocks

Z-Blocks – is a unique solution to control static blocks in your store. Now you don’t need to change template and layout files manually every time when you want to add an advertising banner or add some specific information. Now all the administration of static blocks is available in admin panel.
Z-Blocks extension uses native Magento functionality – you can create different static blocks for different Store views.

Updated extensions

Don’t forget to check full changelog on the product pages.

Featured Products

Current version: 2.0
Upgrade: Highly recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:

• Variety of new configuration options in the administration interface
• New slideshow type – slider
• Ability to define category per product

Help Desk

Current version: 1.1
Upgrade: Highly recommended from any previous version
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:

• Ability to attach files
• A bunch of minor bugfixes
• Minor interface improvements
• French and German localizations

Product Questions

Current version: 1.0.9
Upgrade: Highly recommended from 1.0.6 and below; recommended for all others
Upgrade cost: free for all versions
What’s new:

• Multiple stores support
• HTTPS connections improvements
• Many minor bugfixes

Promotion of the Month!

aheadWorks itself is a company dedicated to provide not only a quality service and products but also a good customer care. Since the very launch of our store we are receiving a good volume of feedback from our customers and visitors. Our valuable assistants in this task are Help Desk and Product Questions modules, which being combined create a powerful customer care solution for Magento stores. Use the following coupon to get both Help Desk and Product Questions with 40% discount:

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• New display type – Slider
• Flexible system of displaying product information – you choose what, where and how to display
• Customizable positioning and layout
• More slideshow and slider behaviour control
• All sizes can be re-defined from the configuration panel
• Less CPU-consuming and smoother animation
• CSS in a separate .css file – customize it the way you need
• Ready to use CSS presets in the package
• Localization-ready

As always find demos, screenshots, FAQ and product questions in our Magento modules store

This Magento module has been updated to version 3 http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/layout/featured-products-3.html

• Different styles of the product buttons: numerical or the product thumbnail 
• Set the featured products to be displayed in current category 
• Automation options: display last added X products or random X products 
• Restrict the automation to the current category

So you are able to choose category products now, this also satisfies multi store owners by letting them choose root category for a store to have different sets for the stores.

All our buyers receive the update for free.