More Info Link in Single Product Per Page Using Subsections

[Andy M]

Hello Everyone my first post!

I have been reading this community for about a month now and its been so helpful for a total newbie to Actinic. I have been running online store's since 2000 and have finaly moved across to Actinic from last month. Found Actinic pretty hard going to start with but starting to find my way around now, and discovering how good it is.

I have searched and searched the community to avoid being blasted on my first post for the answer to my question but I expect its such a simple answer everyone knows how to do it!

I am using Actinic Business V9.0.3

I would like to place a More Info Link Button in Single Product Per Page Using Subsections that the shopping can click on to go to the product. I have placed a screenshot online to show what I want to do incase I am not making much sense!



Please remember I am very new to Actinic.

[leehack]

Hi Andrew, welcome to the forum. Your image does not appear to be working. Anyway, i think it's clear what you want to do and i think your best method is to mimic how the other link(s) in that layout link to the page. A standard link is created like so:

<a href="pagename.html">LINK TEXT</a>

to have an image as the link instead of text, you replace the 'LINK TEXT' with an <IMG> tag, in your case this will be an image for your button which you will have stored in your site1 folder. So something like:

<a href="pagename.html"><img src="andrews-button.gif" blah blah /></a>

So you first need to create your button and then you need to mimic how the existing links in your layout link to the pagename, and then change the link text part for your image.

[grantglendinnin]

Hi Andy

The image seems to be working now and from your description I believe the following will do what you want with an image:

<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="images/imagename.jpg" border="0" width="140"/></a>

Or as Text:

<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">More Info</a>

If you've managed to design what you've done as shown in the image I suspect you'll know where the code goes (below 'SectionDescription' variable in the Section Link layout)

[Andy M]

Hi Andy

The image seems to be working now and from your description I believe the following will do what you want with an image:

<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="images/imagename.jpg" border="0" width="140"/></a>

Or as Text:

<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">More Info</a>

If you've managed to design what you've done as shown in the image I suspect you'll know where the code goes (below 'SectionDescription' variable in the Section Link layout)

Thanks for the replies guys you have been a great help.

Have used the code above and it works great just need to format it abit and will do just what I need.

Thanks for the welcome

Will be on here a fair bit over the next few months!