Kickstarter Guide for ASA2 Switchers

For those who have been using ASA 1 for quite some time, this page gives an overview about how the features known from ASA 1 work in ASA2.

Migration Wizard

When you switch from ASA 1, it is very recommended to use the Migration Wizard to migrate your ASA 1 tempaltes and collections to ASA2.

Note

ASA2 is backwards compatible and can handle all ASA 1 contents even the widgets and PHP functions.

Shortcodes

ASA 1

ASA2

[asa]ASIN[/asa]

[asa2]ASIN[/asa2]

[asa_collection]collection_name[asa_collection]

[asa2_collection]collection_name[asa2_collection]

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[asa2_smart_collection /]

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[asa2_img /]

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[asa2_keywords /]

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[asa2_textlink]ASIN[/asa2_textlink]

Check out the manual page of each ASA2 shortcode, to learn more about it:

Templates

One of the main features of ASA 1 is its flexible template system. ASA2’s template system is a lot more flexible and comes with all the missing functions of ASA 1, like conditions.

ASA 1

ASA2

Templates stored in filesystem

Templates stored in database (update-safe)

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Conditions ({% if OfferIsPrime %}...{% endif %})

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Loops ({% for imgSet in ImageSetsArray %}...{% endfor %})

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Filters ({{ PublicationDate|date("m/d/Y") }})

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Functions ({{ random('ABC') }})

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Include other templates ({% include "template_name" %})

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Translations ({{ translate("price") }})

Template Syntax

Read more about ASA2’s template system and syntax:

Placeholders

ASA 1

ASA2

Static placeholders

Static placeholders

Customer average rating including stars image

Customer average rating including stars image

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Dynamic placeholders (e.g. Custom Fields)

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Support for variations (products with selection)

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Support for image sets (all available product images)

Read more about ASA2’s placeholders:

Collections

In ASA2, collections work like in ASA 1 but can be managed much more efficiently.

ASA 1

ASA2

Create unlimited collections

Create unlimited collections

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Copy collections

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Import / export collections

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Special templates with surrounding container

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Product picker (Amazon live search)

Read more about the collections in ASA2:

New features

ASA2 has a lot of new features which have never been a part of ASA 1:

ASA 1

ASA2

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Products (Products)

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Shops (Shops)

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Using external CSV files

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Smart Collections ([asa2_smart_collection])

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Keyword Search ([asa2_keywords])

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Managed Templates

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Internationalization (i18n)

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Translation

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Product Picker

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Notifications

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Cronjobs

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Advanced Caching

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Advanced PHP functions