Customer Accounts - after log in - redirect somewhere else

[Ben Spiral]

Can this be done?

After a customer logs in to our site, we want to send them back to our front page (a static HTML page outside of Actinic) rather than the catalog index.

How is this done? Is there a script somewhere that can be edited?

Thanks in advance - Ben

[Ben Spiral]

No-one?

[Bruce]

Hi Ben,

Have you tried replacing the index.html in the login link with the path to the external file, now I do not know how this will work, but you could use the work around on the AUG for 'Adding to basket from anywhere on the internet to link back to the Actinic site.

Kind regards,

[Ben Spiral]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks, but could you be a little more specific. When you say replacing the index in the login link - where in the Actinic interface is that?

I will certainly give it a go - just don't want to change the wrong thing!

Thanks - Ben

[Bruce]

Use a link like the example below for your login page, substituting 'Yourpage.html' for the section page you want your customers to go to after logging in:

http://server/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SE...=Yourpage.html

Customers will first be shown the login page, and once they have logged in they will go to their required section.

On the 'Design' tab within the preview area if you click on the 'Login' link, in the 'Layout Code' below the preview, you should see the words 'LoginText' highlighted within a bit of code similar to this..

<td><div class="page_header_menu_login"><p class="text_menu_cart"><a href="<actinic:variable name="LoginPageURL" />" class="link_cart"><actinic:variable name="LoginText" /></a></p></div></td>

here you need to substitute

<a href="<actinic:variable name="LoginPageURL" />" class="link_cart">

for

<a href="YOURPAGEURL" class="link_cart">

Hope that helps.

Kind regards,

[Ben Spiral]

Hi Bruce,

If I click the 'login' link in the design preview, the code that appears in the code window is this...

<span class="actxxsmall">[</span>&nbsp;<a href="<actinic:variable name="LoginPageURL" />" target="_self"><span class="actxxsmall"><strong><actinic:variable name="LoginText" /></strong></span></a>&nbsp;<span class="actxxsmall">]</span>

If I change the <a href="actinic:variable name="LoginPageURL" /> bit that button, when pressed just links to the URL without going to the login screen.

I'm sure I must be in the wrong section but I also tried changing the dropdown menu on the upper left of the GUI under 'select page type' to :login but couldn't find any code that matched yours there either.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the continued help - Ben

[leehack]

What are the square brackets doing? i.e. the [ and ].

There must be a cleaner way of styling also, 3 css declarations of the same style within 2 lines.

The code seems to be styling the "[" and "]" which i am unsure what they are there for. Are they there by mistake?

[Ben Spiral]

Earth to Bruce, earth to Bruce - come in Bruce

[Bruce]

Bruce to Earth ... stand by !!

[leehack]

How is Mars?

[Bruce]

Ben,

Replace the code you have with

<span class="actxxsmall">[&nbsp;<a href="<actinic:variable name="LoginPageURL" />"><strong><actinic:variable name="LoginText" /></strong></a>&nbsp;]</span>

Kind regards,

[leehack]

Whats the square brackets for Bruce?

[Ben Spiral]

Ben,

Replace the code you have with

<span class="actxxsmall">[&nbsp;<a href="<actinic:variable name="LoginPageURL" />"><strong><actinic:variable name="LoginText" /></strong></a>&nbsp;]</span>

Kind regards,

Hi Bruce, sorry it has taken me so long to respond...
It doesn't seem to work so sure I must be doing something wrong. The part I am changing to the url (e.g. http://www.domain.com) I want it to go to is highlighted below. Is this correct?

<span class="actxxsmall">[&nbsp;<a href="LoginPageURL" />"><strong><actinic:variable name="LoginText" /></strong></a>&nbsp;]</span>

[Bruce]

Ben,

Please drop me a mail with the exact link you are trying to use. Will check it and send back.

Kind regards,

[wjcampbe]

Whats the square brackets for Bruce?

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