Terms and Conditions

[fgs]

Is it possible to insert additional terms and conditions to the t+c's list at all so that they appear in the t+c's page? if so, how would I do that?

Thanks.

[Donna Kempster]

http://knowledge.actinic.com/acatalo...kout.html#a600

Found this is KB not sure if this will help.

[wjcampbe]

At the end of any of the existing tabs, you can add new content.

Use HTML markers !!< >!! to introduce appropriate <span> tag around the heading etc to maintain the layout.

[Darren B]

OK sometime ago, way back there was a hack to add more text to one of the field, using a text file, you put everything in the text file and the link to it in one of the T&C boxes

This came about becaue one of the fields could not hold anymore characters, i think this is either a V5 or V6 hack, trying to find it now

D

[leehack]

Instead of messing around, just create your own brochure page and use that for your terms and conditions. Don't struggle on trying to use the actinic offering if it is no good for you, do your own. It'd be about a 5 minute job, much less time.

[JSnow]

Donna & Bill's recommendations is the way I've done it.

Here's a nifty little trick for those with loooong t&c's like mine.

This will give you a quick link menu at the top of your t&c's with "back to top" links after each section. Example Here

Quick Link List:
Click through to Design | Text and go to phrase -1 ID 116 or search for "terms and conditions title". The one you want is "About Us".

C&P the following into the "current value" field.

<h1><a name="top">Terms &amp Conditions</a></h1>
<br>
<ul><li><a href="info.html#about_us">About Us</a></li><li><a 
href="info.html#making_a_purchase">How To Make A Purchase</a></li><li><a 
href="info.html#shipping_and_handling">Shipping And 
Handling</a></li><li><a href="info.html#delivery_schedule">Delivery 
Schedule</a></li><li><a href="info.html#back_orders">Back 
Orders</a></li><li><a href="info.html#tax_charges">Tax 
Charges</a></li><li><a href="info.html#credit_card_security">Credit Card 
Security</a></li><li><a 
href="info.html#guarantee">Guarantee</a></li><li><a 
href="info.html#reaching_us">Reaching Us</a></li><li><a 
href="info.html#privacy_policy">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a 
href="info.html#returns_policy">Returns Policy</a></li><li><a 
href="info.html#remittance_terms">Remittance Terms</a></li></ul>
<br>
<h2><a name="about_us">About Us</a></h2>

What that does is:
1. Creates a heading called "Terms & Conditions" and gives it the top of page anchor (<a name="top">).
2. It creates a bulleted list of links to each of the T&C sections (<a href="info.html#about_us">).
3. (The last line). It gives the About Us heading an anchor name of "about_us" which lets the link mentioned in 2 know where to go. Note: remove the heading tags if you don't want your "About Us" to be a heading.

Next, we need to give each and every t&c section title an anchor. For each section phrase, place the following with the required mods into the current value field.

<h2><a name="making_a_purchase">Making A Purchase</a></h2>

The above gives Making A Purchase the anchor name of "making_a_purchase". If you changed the achor names in the bulleted list, these anchors must be changed as well.

Once again, I have made mine into headings, you can simply remove the heading tags if you don't want a heading.

Continue inserting the above for each and every t&c section right down to phase -1 ID 124 (remittance terms).

Click on Apply and close the Design Text window.

The final step is to add the "back to top" link. For this we are going to use the actinic !!<< >>!! html tags that Bill mentioned above.

Click through to Settings | Business Settings | T&C's.
Click on the "About Us" tab and scroll down to the bottom of your text. Now copy and paste the following (assuming you left the top of page anchor as "top"):

!!<<a href="info.html#top" class="actxxsmall">Back To Top</a>>!!

Paste this underneath your text within each and every t&c section tab.

Boom. You're done. Click on Apply and close the business settings window.

To preview your handywork, click on the design tab, select "terms and conditions" as your page type. You could also do a full page preview to see how it would look online.

[los_design]

Instead of messing around, just create your own brochure page and use that for your terms and conditions. Don't struggle on trying to use the actinic offering if it is no good for you, do your own. It'd be about a 5 minute job, much less time.

Hear, hear!

This solution fits many, many facets and makes life so much easier. I often bin the actinic contact forms etc and put my own in....easy, no mess, no fuss.

(and with DW template structure in use, they update nice and easy to, no need to fiddle.)

Regards
Daren

[Darren B]

Jon

nice piece of work, amazing what everyone comes up with

D

[JSnow]

Thanks Darren.

Agreed. Once you figure out where everything is, you can do some really good stuff.

What's nice about having page anchors is that you can link through to any specific section in your t&c's from anywhere on your site. For example, my hosting packages link directly to the extract from my hosting terms so clients can click and read immediately without first having to browse through all the other terms.

[los_design]

Thanks Darren.

Agreed. Once you figure out where everything is, you can do some really good stuff.

It's finding it all that is the challenge.

Great code JS, one for the KB?

[wahahey]

How do you stop the links appearing on the pop-up / checkout pages

Jsnow's code works really well - but because of where it is entered it also appears on the T&Cs pop-up, and checkout page 1.

I've tried to put a block on it so it only appears on the info.html (normal T&C page) but had no success.

Has anyone else found a way round this, or have i just opened a can of worms no-one had noticed?

[JSnow]

Why would you not want the quicklinks to work on those pages as well?

You could try modifying Jo's page type block code:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%27Terms%20And%20Conditions%27" ></actinic:block>

[wahahey]

Solution!

Hi John

The reason I don't want it on the other two pages is that the quicklinks are all for the Terms and Conditions page i.e. info.html - so when someone uses any of those links on the checkout page it takes them away from checkout to info.html - and i'd rather avoid that.

I've worked out the problem now - only the anchor is needed in the link code, page name (info.html) is unnecessary:

<h1><a name="top">Terms &amp Conditions</a></h1>
<br>
<ul><li><a href="#about_us">About Us</a></li><li><a 
href="#making_a_purchase">How To Make A Purchase</a></li><li><a 
href="#shipping_and_handling">Shipping And 
Handling</a></li><li><a href="#delivery_schedule">Delivery 
Schedule</a></li><li><a href="#back_orders">Back 
Orders</a></li><li><a href="#tax_charges">Tax 
Charges</a></li><li><a href="#credit_card_security">Credit Card 
Security</a></li><li><a 
href="#guarantee">Guarantee</a></li><li><a 
href="#reaching_us">Reaching Us</a></li><li><a 
href="#privacy_policy">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a 
href="#returns_policy">Returns Policy</a></li><li><a 
href="#remittance_terms">Remittance Terms</a></li></ul>
<br>
<h2><a name="about_us">About Us</a></h2>

same goes for the Back To Top link:

!!<<a href="#top" class="actxxsmall">Back To Top</a>>!!

[JSnow]

Ah briliant. Thanks Alex.

Didn't notice that. Nice one.