V9.01 Terms and Conditions Link Not Working

[Spike]

Hi all, were very very slowly getting our initial site together and finding our feet around the magical world of Actinic!

Current frustration is that we want to have our T&Cs simply accessed via a Brochure Page we entitle Terms.

The terms we want displayed are the standard Actinic terms that we set in the Business Settings section.

We've added a brochure page and called it 'Terms'.

We've gone into Design Options and set the Information Link to be a Brochure page (picking the 'Terms' page) from the pull down menu.

We Preview the site and when clicking the Terms Brochure page link nothing appears other than the layout and a black content area?

Can someone please advise? it's driving us wild!

Many thanks in advance.

[jont]

Is the inbuilt Actinic T&C page not sufficient? This is found at /acatalog/info.html and is usually linked on the main horizontal navigation bar

[Spike]

Yeah, we don't use the horizontal nav bar, ours is a very simple clean and crisp layout, hence the reason for wanting to use a brochure page as the primary link to our terms.

We have product categories left, brochure pages right, no nav bar and breadcrumbs through each product section and sub-section - that's about it.

[jont]

OK - there are a couple of solutions. The one I would probably go with (with respect to not seeing the actual site) would be to edit your brochure page and add the following just beneath the INNERLAYOUT

<actinic:variable name="TermsCondsInnerLayout" value="Terms And Conditions Bulk Area" />

Create a new variable and set this as a True / False at Brochure level - set default to False and use parent ... wrap the above layout in a Block if and test the variable to see if true.... in your Terms brochure page set the variable from False to True and the code will show on that page only.

[Spike]

WOW! not only have I never seem so much information is so few words but it's 5 to midnight and your brain can still funtion thank you so much, I'll try and work out what a variable is first then give it a blast.

I did work out that the Design Options prompt was asking for where Actinic can find our Terms & Conditions page, what I did is set it to be a brochure page that we created and named, and we planned to simply populate the brochure page with our Ts & Cs in several fragments.

Does this sound like a reasonable solution too? and will this still enable custoemrs to confirm that the accept the terms prior to checkout?

Your help advice and time is truly appreciated, many thanks.

[jont]

I would use the inbuilt terms function as this keeps all the copies the same - if anything changes and you forget to update the fragment version you could be in trouble - having just the 1 copy is very advisable.

Variables are created in the Library > Variables tab. Check out the help inside Actinic as they are covered there and can allow you to control what is or isn't shown on a page (very powerful when used with the block if functions)

[Spike]

Thanks Jont, tis much appreciated..