X-Cart:Advanced Tools

Overview

X-Cart provides tools that allow you to perform a variety of advanced tasks:

• generate clean URL values for the object that do not have clean URL values defined;
• remove credit card information from processed and completed orders;
• optimize database tables to increase your store's overall performance;
• check database integrity;
• force (re)generation of cache files and quick tables;
• clear statistics;
• clear the templates cache;
• re-generate the cache of resized images;
• re-generate the Blowfish encryption key;
• remove unnecessary store data.

These tools are available via the 'Summary/Tools' section of your store's Admin area. To access the 'Summary/Tools' section, do the following:

1. Go to the 'Summary' section of your store's Admin area (Administration menu->Summary).
2. In the 'Summary' section menu, click the link Tools.

Important: To avoid loss of important data, make sure you clearly understand what you are doing before you use any of X-Cart's advanced tools.

Generate Clean URL Values

This tool automatically generates clean URL values for the products, categories, manufacturers and static pages that do not have clean URL values defined. This tool is available only when the option 'Enable Clean URLs' in the 'General settings/SEO options' section is enabled.

To generate clean URL values using this tool, do the following:

1. Specify the types of objects for which you wish clean URL values to be generated by selecting the respective check boxes:

2. Click the Submit button.

When you click Submit, X-Cart generates URL values for all the objects of the selected type(s) that do not have clean URL values defined. A message is displayed confirming that the clean URL values have been generated successfully.