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Shopping Software Training - Linking to Creative

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How do I create a link straight to a product in the store?

It is possible to take people straight to a specific product with a hyperlink of the following form:
http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?PRODREF=12345&NOLOGIN=1
Where:
· http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN

· ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number

· 12345 is the product reference of your desired product.

· &NOLOGIN=1 is an essential thing to add to the end of the URL to order to bypass the login page

Linking from Other URLs
Note: If you are using this code from outside the 'acatalog' folder then you will need to include a hidden form field of 'ACTINIC_REFERRER=' where the value is your 'Catalog URL' from 'Web | Network Setup'.

For example:
http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?PRODREF=12345&NOLOGIN=1&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://your.URL/acatalog/

How do I manually create links to the sections in my store?

If you want to create a link to a section in a store, then use a link of the following form...
http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?SECTIONID=Section%5fPage%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1
Where:
· http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN

· ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number

· Section%5fPage%2ehtml is the filename of your desired page. Note that you have to encode any non-alphanumeric characters so an underscore '_' becomes '%5f' and a full stop '.' becomes '%2e'.

· &NOLOGIN=1 is an essential thing to add to the end of the URL to order to bypass the login page

Linking from Other URLs
Note: If you are using this code from outside the 'acatalog' folder then you will need to include a hidden form field of 'ACTINIC_REFERRER=' where the value is your 'Catalog URL' from 'Web | Network Setup'.

For example:
http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?PRODREF=12345&NOLOGIN=1&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://your.URL/acatalog/
and also
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="ACTINIC_REFERRER" VALUE="http://your.URL/acatalog/">

I have links to the acatalog folder on my home page but search spiders are not finding the pages in the acatalog folder.

This can occur if the links do not have a trailing '/' as in: -

http://myServer/acatalog

In which case the spider thinks that acatalog is a file and not a folder which it then drops from the URL.

To get the spider to search inside the acatalog folder you need to add an "/" at the end of the URL, i.e

http://myServer/acatalog/

How can I view the Shopping Cart from anywhere on the Internet?

he page that shows a summary of the shopping cart details is actually displayed as a result of a call to an online Perl script in the cgi-bin directory.

Go to your online website and click the 'view cart' button on the navigation bar. Even with nothing in your shopping cart, the address of the page in the 'Address' bar of your browser will be something like:
http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART

This link will work when the call has come from inside the 'acatalog' folder online, but it might not work from outside. If it doesn't, you will need to add an 'ACTINIC_REFERRER=' parameter that tells the browser where your 'acatalog' folder is. This is the 'Catalog URL' value, which can be seen in 'Web | Network Setup'.

If your Catalog URL is 'http://your.URL/acatalog/' then the call to the shopping cart becomes:
http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://your.URL/acatalog/

How do I link to my catalogue from my homepage?

Select 'Home' in the content tree, in the page details area, click on 'Page Setting'. Edit the home page add a link (full URL or relative URL to the Base Page Name. With the default settings this would be /acatalog/index.html

When I go to my site URL after uploading the store, I do not see the store. All I see is a "holding page" for my site. What is wrong?

Enter the username and password required for the SMTP server in ' Web | Network Setup'.

How do I put a counter on my site, so I know how many people are going into Actinic? Where do I place the code?

It would probably be best that the code is placed on the front page of the store. To ensure the counter does not increment with each page opened you need to restrict it to the front page but no other page.

Do the following:
1. Change the preview to show the front page of the store. This is the 'Online Catalogue' icon in the content tree.

2. Select the 'Main Product Area Layout' in the 'Design' tab. This will be called something like 'Standard Section Page' or 'Section Page With Section Name At The Top'. The easiest way to do this is to click on anything in the main part of a section page and then keep pressing the 'Navigate to Parent Layout' button - - until the correct layout is selected.

3. Insert your content that you only want to appear on the front page.

4. Once you have got it looking correct, highlight all the content and press the 'Insert Block' button on the toolbar - .

5. The condition to enter is:
<actinic:variable name="SectionLevel" /> == 0

6. Click 'OK' and then click 'Apply' to save the changes to your layout.

Your content will now only appear on the store front page..

My links to the store did not work because I didn't use ACTINIC_REFERRER in the URL. Now I have included this but the links still don't work.

The Advanced User Guide, section 'Taking People Straight to a Product' explains that when linking to the store from pages outside of the acatalog folder, you need to add the parameter ACTINIC_REFERRER.

If you try the links with ACTINIC_REFERRER specified Actinic Ecommerce will store the URL of the calling page in a session file on the server as the store BASEURL, this in turn will cause the link to fail and requests to other parts of the store.

When this situation is encountered you will need to remove the session files from the server so that they can be re-created with the correct URL passed by ACTINIC_REFERRER.

To do this safely…

- Suspend the store.
- Wait a reasonable period time to allow any current buyers to complete their orders.
- FTP to the server and delete *.session files from the acatalog directory, depending on the server security you may need to ask your ISP to delete these files.
Un-suspend the store.

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