November 1, 2022 — 1.2242 Service Update

Internal Release Notes

Client-Facing Production Tenant Features

Subscriptions

• Subscription One-Time Changes (COM-6250 and COM-6471): To follow-up on the recent ability to add a one-time purchase product to an existing subscription, a one-time change can also now be made to the shipping method. When the one-time shipping method option is updated, the next continuity order will use that shipping method but future continuity orders will use the original subscription method. The subscription will not be repriced.
• Remove Subscription Coupon API (COM-6437): A new Subscription API endpoint is now available that will remove one or more coupons from a subscription. You can call the Remove Coupon API and specify which coupon codes should be removed. This API schema is not yet available in the documentation but will be added soon.

Order Routing

• Future ATP Order Routing Update (CHAR-4058): Order Routing behavior has been enhanced to work better with Future Available to Promise inventory cases. Previously, Order Routing erroneously suggested to put some items with future inventory into Customer Care because it treated them as a partial match. Order Routing will now better consider future inventory cases and try to combine all candidates for locations and future dates together to create full matches for assignment. This does not affect existing Order Routing behavior without Future Available to Promise inventory.
• OMS-Only Order Routing Update (COM-6112): If a fulfillment location code is provided in the request for an STH item on an OMS-Only order, that item will be placed into a new shipment that bypasses Order Routing. Instead of being routed, that shipment will be assigned directly to that location for fulfillment. The “isAutoAssigned” flag on the shipment data will be set to “false.” This only applies to non-reserved inventory cases.

Search

• Merchandizing Rules in Campaigns (CAM-316): The Campaigns page now displays a Merchandizing Rules tab, so that you can select rules for your campaign in addition to discounts and site variations. Active merchandizing rules will be displayed and allow you to switch between Site Search and Categories rules. You can also click Edit or Create New to open a new tab for the Merchandizing Rules UI and either edit an existing rule or create a new rule.
• Search Settings Update (SU-2345 and SU-2880): Instead of showing Edit and Delete buttons for every configuration in the table of the Search Settings page, a dropdown menu has now been added to each row that will display Edit and Delete when the menu is expanded. Note that the default configuration will not have the Delete option. Also, improvements have been made to CSS and formatting on the Search Configurations page.

Internal Production Tenant Updates

The following enhancements are internal-only and not exposed to clients. For the full list of search merchandizing edits, see the Jira list. Note that FFMT-3380 (Assembly Partial Pickup) will be announced when its counterpart is complete in Version 1.2242.

• CHAR-4290: To assist with implementation of Reserve Inventory in Cart, an internal success event is now emitted whenever inventory is successfully allocated. This event is similar to the Pending Item event and contains the Cart ID, Cart Item ID, Reservation ID, and UPC.
• CHAR-4281: Even if events are turned off, logs will now always be added to the inventory_logs table no matter what.
• CAT-1723: Subscription provisioning has been enhanced. When the feature has previously been enabled on a tenant and then is re-enabled, it will now populate data for all catalogs and locales.
• COM-6379: If an item is removed from an inventory reservation due to a zip code update in the cart or checkout, that is now captured in the change messages data.
• CAT-1902: Product code validation has been removed when submitting a payload to inventory service, meaning that errors will no longer be triggered at this point by a lack of product codes.
• CHAR-4274 and CHAR-4371: A new locationAttributeUpdated internal event will be emitted to communicate which fulfillment types were updated after a location modification, allowing the cache to be invalidated appropriately.
• ICKY-686 and SU-2980: Application behavior integration has been improved. In the behavior selection modal, all behaviors are grouped by behavior category and displayed with a checkbox that allows you to select or deselect individual or all behaviors for the application. You can also select templates with pre-selected options. Additionally, Mozu.AppDev has been recompiled to get new Search Merchandizing Rule behaviors. These behaviors will now appear in the behavior option list for applications.
• SB-92 and SB-94: A new internal UI has been created for users with ESR access to manage API (throttling) limits on developer accounts and production tenants. In this UI, you can select an account or tenant and edit its throttle limits. Internal users can access this UI via the user dropdown menu in the top right of the Launchpad.
• CHAR-4217 and CHAR-4093: A couple improvements have been made to the real-time inventory service. First, a daily MySQL script has been implemented to warm the buffer pool. Second, verification tests have been added to ensure that the location cache is always updated properly upon the Inventory Deleted event.

Production Bug Fixes

The following list summarizes resolved issues for this production release.

Client-Facing Sandbox Features

Inventory

• RIS Location Filter Update (CAT-1550, CAT-1631, and CHAR-4118): The Real-Time Inventory Service now returns product availability for STH enabled locations, where previously it only returned pickup locations. This means that the location filter available on storefront Product Listing Pages can now display availability for STH locations as well, allowing for scenarios such as displaying products in stock for direct ship. Whether this filter returns pickup or STH availability is configured in the “Location Fulfillment Types” site setting and can be set to either one or both values. This setting defaults to pickup locations.
• Reserve Inventory Event (COM-6554): When reserved inventory is successfully allocated, a new “inventory.cartItemAllocated” event is now triggered. This event will include Cart ID, Cart Item ID, UPC, Quantity, and Reservation ID fields in the extendedProperties object to identify the inventory as well as the timestamp of when it was allocated.
• Pending Item Event (COM-6314): When a pending item is successfully created, an “inventory.cartPendingItemCreated” event is now triggered. This event will include the Cart ID, Cart Item ID, UPC, Quantity, and AutoAssign fields to identify the item as well as the timestamp of when it was created.

Subscriptions

• Pause Subscription Limit (COM-6323): A new subscription setting, “Pause Subscription for _ Number of Continuity Orders,” has been added. When a value is set, a paused subscription will be automatically reactivated after this amount of continuity orders have been skipped (though they can still be manually reactivated before this limit is reached). If automatically reactivated, the subscription cannot be paused again until after the next continuity order is placed.
• Next Order Date Limit (COM-6327): A new subscription setting, “Update Next Order Date Up to _ Days From Existing Next Order Date,” has been added. When a value is set, subscriptions cannot have their next order date manually changed to a date further out than that limit.
• Skip Subscription Limit (COM-6467 and COM-6469): A new subscription setting, "Skip Subscription _ Number of Times," has been added. When a value is set, the ability to skip a continuity order will be disabled once that amount of skips has been made in a row. When this happens, a continuity order must be placed before the subscription can be skipped again.

Fulfiller

• Force Fulfill Future Shipments (FFMT-3294): Fulfiller users can now force fulfill shipments with future inventory, allowing them to complete the shipment if the future inventory arrives sooner than the anticipated future date. This feature was already available via API and the Order Admin UI, but is now available in the Fulfiller UI. If a shipment status is Future, then a “Mark as Shipped” button is now displayed at the top of the shipment details and will change the shipment to Fulfilled when clicked. This is supported for both BOPIS and STH and related shipment types.

Internal Sandbox Updates

The following enhancements are internal-only and not exposed to clients. For the full list of search merchandizing edits, see the Jira list. Note that FFMT-3380 (Assembly Partial Pickup) will be announced when its counterpart is complete in the future.

• COM-6509: A new endpoint has been added to the Reservation APIs that returns the allocation status of reservation items (which can be Pending, Success, or Failed).
• CHAR-4381: The Updated Cart Allocation and Pending Item event queues have been updated to use “fanout” instead of “topic” exchange logic.
• CHAR-4348: The “minimum_query_time_in_hours” value is now a Kibo.Config rather than hardcoded to 120 hours, allowing this limit to be set per environment.
• CAT-1857: Several database sprocs for getting product categories utilized two queries when they could be combined into one. This optimization has been done to improve code efficiency.
• CAT-1220: Subscription product attributes have now been hidden from collections on the product CRUD page.

Sandbox Bug Fixes

The following list summarizes resolved issues for this sandbox release.