{"id":5236,"date":"2015-07-28T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2015-07-28T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:53:44","slug":"viewer-managed-marketplace-migration-seems-to-be-going-smoothly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5236","title":{"rendered":"Viewer Managed Marketplace Migration Seems To Be Going Smoothly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Merchant<\/a><\/p>\n

Hopefully many Second Life Marketplace<\/a> merchants have received an email like this :<\/p>\n

We have finished upgrading the listings in your store to work with the Viewer-Managed Marketplace feature. You must use a Viewer that supports VMM (http:\/\/wiki.secondlife.com\/wiki\/Release_Notes\/Second_Life_Release\/3.8.2.303583<\/a>), and will need to restart the viewer if you had it open during the migration. Your stores should now be fully functional.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you would like more information on the upgrades and how to manage your Marketplace inventory items from here on, please see the Knowledge Base Article on the Viewer-Managed Marketplace https:\/\/community.secondlife.com\/t5\/English-Knowledge-Base\/Viewer-managed-Marketplace-Beta\/ta-p\/2854226<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for using the Second Life Marketplace<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That should indicate that everything has gone smoothly with your migration to the new Viewer Managed Marketplace, then you’ll just need to get your head around how everything works with the Viewer Managed Marketplace, but fear not, Linden Lab have provided plenty of helpful assistance there. A really good place to start is with the comprehensive knowledge-base article linked in the email.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen too many complaints about the migration, some people have reported that they’ve received an email stating there was a problem with the migration and that Linden Lab are investigating. In those circumstances you will still need to manage your Marketplace listings as you usually would.<\/p>\n

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One concern that has been raised about this migration is with regards to which viewer merchants need to use. The official Second Life viewer does not yet support the Viewer Managed Marketplace, so merchants who have been migrated will have to download a viewer that does support this functionality to manage their marketplace listings. This was explained in Linden Lab’s blog post<\/a> about the migration :<\/p>\n

Once your store is migrated, you\u2019ll need to use the Second Life VMM Viewer<\/a> to manage the inventory in your Marketplace store.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Linden Lab Release Candidate viewer is linked to in the above comment.\u00a0This hasn’t please everyone, especially as the Firestorm viewer does not yet support the Viewer Managed Marketplace. The Firestorm team have explained the situation in a blog post – Attention All Merchants!<\/a> :<\/p>\n

Firestorm does not have VMM released yet, but we are working as hard as we can to get it through our QA and into the Firestorm Preview group ASAP so that merchants can access its functionality prior to our official release. We were not expecting such a tight deadline but hope to have something in preview early next week.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know this will be painful for some merchants and it’s definitely not an ideal situation, but it should not be a big issue for very long. I would also suggest that merchants read the Firestorm blog post as that has information on options for merchants regarding viewers.<\/p>\n

Now when you’re happy with your migration, you may want to get hold of the free VMM bear<\/a> to celebrate a successful migration, and you might event want to post pictures to somewhere like Flickr, I’m sure some people will find that a fun thing to do! Oh come on, I can’t be the only one!<\/p>\n

I’ll end this post with a Torley video on the Viewer Managed Marketplace, other videos in the series can be found when the first one finishes.<\/p>\n