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**JulesRS** · 07-Jun-2007, 09:00 PM

Has anyone any ideas on this please? I'm totally stuck on this one. Thanks

**wjcampbe** · 08-Jun-2007, 05:48 AM

Actinic produces static(fixed) pages and you want a dynamic(changing) result.

Only way I can see to do this is to edit the Actinic produced pages and then upload by ftp overwriting the Actinic pages.

You would have to remake the changes every time you upload from Actinic, and this would not only be very time consuming but also very prone to error.

You would have to find the unique identifier for each other info input control, make that control invisible, then add an onblur javascrip action to the associated checkbox which checks whether or not the checkbox is ticked and toggle the input visible if the checkbox is ticked.

Probably easier to change the html for the checkbox to 'confirm the entered personalisation message is correct', and accept that people will still get it wrong sometimes.

**JulesRS** · 08-Jun-2007, 07:46 AM

Thanks Bill,

I thought it may be more complicated than I'd imagined. Unfortunately, this goes way beyond my current capabilities in this area.

I will go with your suggestion regarding changing the HTML for the checkbox, as hopefully this should encourage people to check the box.

I appreciate you taking the time to provide a response.

Thanks again.

**NormanRouxel** · 08-Jun-2007, 09:11 AM

You don't need to create any condition around the Other Info prompt in your product layout as Actinic already does this.

What you'd need is a modified Product Layout that adds some JavaScript to the Other info input field. This JavaScript would interrogate the field length and set / reset the Component checkbox depending on whether it was empty or not.

This wouldn't be too hard to do if your products only had that single Component. If they had other Components ot Attributes, then locating the correct field to alter would become tricky.

**JulesRS** · 08-Jun-2007, 09:25 AM

Hi Norman,

What you'd need is a modified Product Layout that adds some JavaScript to the Other info input field. This JavaScript would interrogate the field length and set / reset the Component checkbox depending on whether it was empty or not

Yes, this sounds like it would do the job. Although, I'm no expert on Javascript so how would I go about obtaining this type of script?

This wouldn't be too hard to do if your products only had that single Component. If they had other Components ot Attributes, then locating the correct field to alter would become tricky.

I currently use components in one other product section (tissue paper where I have a drop down list for the colours) other than the handmade cards. In this section I am only using the one component for personalisation.

**NormanRouxel** · 08-Jun-2007, 10:11 AM

Put the following into your Overall Layout just above the </head> line

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
function setcomp(textfield){
  var ref = 'v_' + textfield.name.substr(2) + '_1';	// ID of first Variant v_<prodref>_1
  // locate the field by its name (Actinic doesn't set the ID)
  var ifields = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
  for ( var i=0; i < ifields.length; i++ ) 
    {
    if ( ifields[i].name == ref ) 
      {
      var checkbox = ifields[i];
      break;
      }
    }
  // check / uncheck as required  
  if ( textfield.value == '' )
    {
    checkbox.checked = false;
    }
  else
    {
    checkbox.checked = true;
    }
}
// -->
</script>

Make a Copy of your usual product layout and in that layout replace

Code:

            <input type="text" name="O_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="40" maxlength="1000" value="" />

with

Code:

            <input type="text" name="O_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="40" maxlength="1000" value="" 
			onchange="setcomp(this)"
			/>

However this won't stop people fiddling with the checkbox after they've entered some text. It may be a good idea to replace

Code:

         <actinic:variable name="ComponentList" />

with

Code:

         <span style="display:none; visibility:hidden"><actinic:variable name="ComponentList" /></span>

To hide the checkbox.

And you'll also need to do the Advanced Guide stuff to make the Other Info field optional.

**JulesRS** · 08-Jun-2007, 12:10 PM

Hi Norman,

Thanks very much for supplying the code. It works perfectly when adding the product from my main product layout. However, it doesn't seem to work when I add the product to my cart from my extended information window (I am using the 'Includes add to cart button' layout). I have updated the code in there too so I'm not sure why it doesn't add the extra cost for personalisation.

Do you have any suggestions?

**NormanRouxel** · 08-Jun-2007, 03:08 PM

Post an URL of a problem page so I can see what's happening.

**JulesRS** · 08-Jun-2007, 07:24 PM

Ok, here you go.

Still in test mode at the moment. It's the extended info window one which isn't working. It will add the personalisation message to the cart but it doesn't add the cost on.

Also you will notice that the code is slightly different as I also had to amend the size of the 'Other Info Box' using the instructions in the AUG as well as making it optional. So where you said I should input this:

Code:

<input type="text" name="O_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="40" maxlength="1000" value="" 
			onchange="setcomp(this)"
			/>

I had to input this:

Code:

<textarea name="O_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" rows="5" cols="40" maxlength="1000" value="" 
			onchange="setcomp(this)"

I'm not sure if this is ok or not but just thought I would show you what I'd done in case its not correct.

It's best viewed in FireFox or Netscape at the moment. I have a problem with the left menu displaying incorrectly in Internet Explorer...but that's another story!

Thanks,

**NormanRouxel** · 08-Jun-2007, 08:16 PM

The bit of code that you put into the Overall Layout just before the </head> line also needs to be put into the overall layout of the popup page.

**JulesRS** · 08-Jun-2007, 09:13 PM

I see, that makes sense now. It's all working. Thanks very much for taking the time to help me with this, I really appreciate it. I just have one further question.

I wanted to restrict the number of characters entered into the other info box to 58, so I went to Design|Text and entered the following into phase 2161.

Code:

%s<input type="text" name="%s" size="%d" maxlength="58" %d value="%s" %s />

However, this doesn't seem to work. I thought this was supposed to stop the customer entering any more than 58 characters? Is there something I am missing here?

Thanks.

**NormanRouxel** · 09-Jun-2007, 10:09 AM

That item isn't used in the Product Layout. Look there and fix

Code:

            <input type="text" name="O_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="40" maxlength="1000" value="" 
			onchange="setcomp(this)"
			/>

**JulesRS** · 09-Jun-2007, 10:23 AM

I see, sorry, for some reason I thought I needed to keep the code in to make the 'Other Info Prompt' larger, but this of course is unnecessary. I've updated it now and it's all working as it should.

Thanks again for your help.

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