Offer of the day pre loading

[hobuk]

Hi all,

We are trying to have a banner or similar at the top of our special offers page that features an "offer of the day", to make it easier we were hoping to be able to load a weeks worth of offers, then have actinic call in each one on each day so that it was more automatic, and each offer was only visible on the special offers page for 24 hours - Are we asking to much?

Any ideas would be great!

[NormanRouxel]

If you post an example of the code that would be used on a couple of days then we may be able to help.

[hobuk]

Hi Norman,

Here is the problem, none of us here have any idea on where to start, I was thinking down the lines of having the products loaded on the site, then a bit of javascript to show an image at the top of the page in the special offers section that showed the offer for 24 hours before changing both the image and link to the next offer on the site, perhaps a little bit of a rough approach but it would be handy for promoting a particular product and good for advertising new products.

[Rich Brady]

Lee seems to be using SPP Norman.

Could he use something like this in a Fragment Layout:

<actinic:block type="EntireSectionList" >
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22Home%20Page%20Showcase%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20true" >
	<a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self"><img alt="<actinic:variable name="SectionName" encoding="strip"/>" src="<actinic:variable Name="SectionImageFileName"/>" border="0"/></a><br/>
	<a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self"><actinic:variable name='SectionName'/></a>
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

The "Home Page Showcase" variable would be true/false at section level. That way Lee you could pick and choose which products/SPP Sections you were offering.

The code will give you Section Image and Name both clickable through to the SPP, but you can style the fragment layout to illustrate the offer and position these things accordingly.

All you need now is for Norman to work his magic

[hobuk]

Hi Rich,

Thanks I will have a play, for the moment I have used a piece of javascript (though not right) I will take a look over the weekend and post back if I get any joy. :-)