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    A weird way of building Actinic shops

    Forgive me if the answer to this is covered elswhere but I couldn't find anything and I'm not looking for a detailed answer.

    We have recently created a website in V7 by creating Act_Primary.html (plus similar brochure and checkout pages) from scratch in Dreamweaver (using CSS), then dropping the following code into the appropriate space to provide the section images and product details:

    <td valign="top"><p>NETQUOTEVAR:FORMBEGIN<A NAME="top">
    <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=RANDOM VALUE="NETQUOTEVAR:RANDOM">
    </A>NETQUOTEVAR:HIDDENFIELDS
    <!-- If customer accounts are in operation following two lines allow displaying -->
    <!-- User name and customer account name on every page -->
    <!-- NETQUOTEVAR:LOGINLINK -->
    <Actinic:NOWSERVING/>
    <Actinic:CURRACCOUNT/>
    <Actinic:LOGOUT_SIMPLE/>
    <br>
    <!-- NETQUOTEVAR:HEADER
    <span class="actxsmall">-->
    NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERTEXT
    NETQUOTEVAR:BULK
    NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERTEXT
    <!-- NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTER -->
    NETQUOTEVAR:FORMEND
    </td>


    This (plus one or two other lines of code) has given us as much Actinic functionality as we need, set in a totally bespoke page. It does, however,
    rely on Netquotevars.

    The question is - is it possible to do something similar in V8 - ie simply drop a bit of the right code into an existing (non-Actinic) page to create the shop? We don't particularly want to move to V8 but I am concerned about Actinic V7 and Vista, which we will be using within the next 6 months.

    Aquazuro - designer stainless steel accessories


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    Yep absolutely.

    In fact, the only variable you need to insert into the bulk area of the page is 'INNERLAYOUT'. You then just need to copy and paste all the scripty bits from the <head> section of an overall layout into your custom layout. That should do it.

    By the way, if you are using the Dreamweaver integration that comes with v8, it does all this for you.

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      #3
      Thanks Chris - I thought I was going for the "most viewed, fewest replies" award there for a moment. That sounds very encouraging - sounds like I've got a little project for the quieter Xmas moments now......

      Aquazuro - designer stainless steel accessories

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