Wrong link on related products

[OriginalTouch]

When you look at the related product code:

the "more information" [LINK] is coming from the original related product description.

the "buy online" link is coming from the following code:

<a href="<actinic:variable name="SearchCGIURL" />?PRODREF=<actinic:variable name="ProductID" />&amp;NOLOGIN=1<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsHostMode%22%20%2f%3e" >&amp;SHOP=<actinic:variable name="ShopID" /></actinic:block>"><font size="2">Buy online</font></a></p>

Hence it seems to search for the product and display the 'PRODUCT' not its descriptive section, much like the search facility.

There must be a way around this somewhere.

[OriginalTouch]

oh and yes - 3 children now asleep.
Little girls 8th birthday in the morning - thank goodness I wrapped those pressies before!!

[TraceyHand]

you're only going to be able to generate a link for the "buy now" product page though (which is what you're doing with the "buy online" link and the link in the image)

The [LINK] link obviously won't work so needs eliminating from the related product (where it appears AS a related product)
The only way to do that, as your setup stands now, is to remove the product description variable from the related products layout.

As I said, a custom variable could probably do the same job..but it depends what sort of solution you're after.
As there is no clear link between the "buy online" pages and the descriptive pages, you're not going to be able to get Actinic to do it for you

[OriginalTouch]

ok I will think of a work around for the site using what is available.

This is the first site - only another 5 to go!

[OriginalTouch]

yes, I can see why you want to link to that page..but, across your site, there is no relation between the descriptive page and the buy now page, is there?
One isn't an extended info of the other, for example, so I don't see how you could do this as a site-wide option, tbh.

I don't know if you could maybe create a custom variable for the link to the main description page, instead of using the [LINK] tab. Maybe that would retain the value for the related product instead if you inserted that into the related products layout.?

Maybe someone else can confirm or deny!??

After quite a few posts we realised what the problem was here.

Is there anyone who can answer this?
How (if possible) can you make a custom variable so that:
A related product links to a descriptive page rather than the product itself.

You see some of my products are hidden to unregistered customers (only the product purchase page sub-section). But the descriptive page (section above) is still there to be read by all. Hence why they are on separate pages - this works well for me.

But on a main product, if they click on a hidden related product, it will take them to a 'bounce' page. I want to take them to the descriptive page (the section above the sub-section).

Please see link:

http://www.spcb.co.uk/acatalog/Buy_E...AQ_online.html

You will note that the related product link goes to a bounce page.
The related product more info link which I set up in the related product description is picking up the link to the main product (hence this long thread).

Budget Bumps helped me to figure out why this was happening (we think) and suggested that I cut the more info link and product description from the related products layout altogether. However, this does not overcome the fact that the related product still links back to a bounce page rather than its description.

Thought about using an extended info but that is already being used for other data.

Any ideas?

[OriginalTouch]

Oh I must have been silly not to have thought of this before.
A little bit of lateral thinking and it was solved myself!

Instead of using the [LINK], I have just hardcoded the <a=href> into every product description.
.. and it works.