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This would, indeed, be an outstanding feature. I hope to see it included.
As a programmer and business owner, I know it’s a complex thing to implement and you need to be able to cover your development costs to make it worth your time. I would suggest that since not too many people will have need for this, it should be a paid add-on module if you can engineer it that way. Perhaps call it WPeStore International.
As an added incentive to you to cover development costs, you might even make it something which has a monthly subscription fee and gives access to the latest exchange rates.
I would really love to see this. I’d also pay extra for another add on which would give you good statistics of the videos using the ability of CloudFront to create log files for video plays.
Thanks for your prompt response. That fixed the issue. Just had a chance to do the upgrade and test it. All is well. As always, THANK YOU! You guys are fantastic!
OK. Variations are just not working now for all products. I’ve had two people e-mail me who have purchased older products which have always worked and now they don’t.
Without changing anything on these older products, I went and tried to manually generate links for them from the Admin Functions area and they did not work.
I got the same message as above:
Download link generation failed! Make sure the digital product variation name is correct if this product uses digital product variation.
If it matters, I verified that the files actually existed on the download server by copying the unencrypted link directly out of the Digital Product Variation field and pasting it into a new browser window. The files downloaded without incident.
I uninstalled and re-installed the Plugin, hoping that would clear things up. But, it did not. So, as of now, it appears that my ability to use Digital Product Variations no longer works.
Version|1.2.1::http://xxxx.com/somedir/Filename_121.zip|1.3.x::http://xxxx.com/somedir/Filename_130.zip
Did we somehow lose the ability to use a period in the Variation Name? It used to work. But I removed the periods, and instead used 121 and 13x and it now works.
They key seems to be in your last sentence:
If you do not need to do variation control for digital products then leave this field blank.
I cleared out the variation3 field and now it works.
It would be nice, however, if WPeStore would work if there is only ONE item in the variation field. It would save me a lot of manual effort when I do release the next version of my software.
6.0.8 from what I can see.
I have been using WPeStore for almost 2 years now. I have the latest version 6.0.8
I recently added some new products and went to test the checkout process. I am having digital download issues as well. No download links were getting generated. Either on the confirmation screen after payment or in the follow up e-mail that is sent out.
So, to test if a link could be generated, I went and did it through admin. (Generate encrypted Link). When I do this, I get the following error message:
Download link generation failed! Make sure the digital product variation name is correct if this product uses digital product variation.
I found this post and went in and enabled the debugging and reset the debug log files via the button on the admin settings screen.
I then tried to re-generate an encrypted link and looked at the download_manager_debug.log and all it has in it is the reset message.
The eStore_post_payment_debug.log has the reset message and then this:
[11/22/2011 4:46 PM] – SUCCESS :Generating download link for digital variation. Digital variation name to match:
product_download_url: http://xxxx.com/dl/135/Filename.zip
downloadable: yes
variation3: Version|1.3.5::http://xxxx.com/dl/135/Filename.zip
If you need some Beta Testers for this – you’ve got one with over 20 years of development experience anxiously awaiting the release of this – for Beta or for sale.
In light of my earlier post, is there a way/query to modify the Digital Product Variation field for all products in a Category, using the product name as part of the download file name. Like doing it through mySQL Query or something.
Using PSEUDO SQL – something like..
UPDATE ProdTable
SET [Digital Product Variation] = “Version|1.2::http://mysite.com/dloads/1.2/%5BProductName%5D.zip|1.3::http://mysite.com/dloads/1.3/%5BProductName%5D.zip|1.4::http://mysite.com/dloads/1.4/%5BProductName%5D.zip”
WHERE [Category]=2
Tone,
Go to S3 Valut’s site. Right on the front page they talk about EXPIRING URLs. So, even if they passed the link along, if you set the expire time to be short enough, it wouldn’t really matter.
S3 looks like a pretty flexible product. Since it’s whole purpose is to protect your content from being “stolen” I would imagine that combining what they can do with the flexibility and versatility of eStore that you could design a system that would let you sleep well at night.
eMail me if you’d like some help with it.
An idea –
When you set up a product in eStore there is an option in the Buy Now Type Button Specific Settings section which says Return URL. The help text under it says “This option is only used for Buy Now type buttons. This is useful when you want to use a different return URL than the one specified in the Settings menu for this product. Can be used to redirect customers to different URL for different product after payment”
Perhaps if you did not set up your product as downloadable within the eStore and instead used this link to send the purchaser to a separate Thank You page for the product. Then on that Thank You page you used the S3Vault shortcode to deliver the download link. That way, eStore is not trying to “serve” the content to the buyer. That would all be handled by S3Vault.
