Section List called from different site

[jmedinger]

Hi there

Is it possible to populate the section list generated by Actinic on a site not connected to Actinic?

I have been able to call the information from the Actinic site using the relevent Actinic HEAD TAG codes however the links that are generated are relative and not absolute which means that they try and go to a page that doesn't exist on the site the list is being shown on.

All I want is a way to direct the links back to the Actinic site the list was generated on.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Jos

[NormanRouxel]

Are you talking about using Act_section_tree.js?

If so it contains full URL's so should work from anywhere.

If that's not it you'd better explain further as to what "relevent Actinic HEAD TAG codes" is.

[jmedinger]

Hi Norman

The site I want to include this on is here

If you look at the drop down on the left - this is what's currently happening - it's directing to a relative location on the brownbagmens.co.uk site rather than the bbclothing.co.uk actinic site.

Have I done anything obviously wrong?

Jos

[NormanRouxel]

The fault seems to be on your http://www.bbclothing.co.uk site. Try using the Search by Designer there and you get the same problem.

Perhaps it's a Network Settings problem.

[jmedinger]

Hi Norman

The Actinic generated section tree file (viewable here) is generating links of the following format

http://www.bbclothing.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SECTIONID=adidas1%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

It's not unreasonable to assume that the scripts should sort out the correct directory...

Do you (or anyone else) know why it's omitting the 'acatalog' from the structure when it tries to find the page?

Cheers

Jos

[DBurrows]

I would say somthing in your network settings is not correct causing the scripts to omit the /acatalog/ dir from the string - post your network settings here (mask your passwords etc!)

[jmedinger]

See attachment for Network Settings

Nothing wrong that I can see - but maybe someone could confirm that?

Cheers

Jos

[NormanRouxel]

Your links from the foreign site appear to be working now.

[jmedinger]

Hi Norman

Which site did you test? www.brownbagmens.co.uk?

I've just been there and I'm still getting the same (well similar) issue

On the main site (bbclothing.co.uk) the included section list shows all the sections but does not redirect to the /acatalog directory (if you're OUTSIDE the acatalog dir when you use it) and therefore the filename called does not get found.

On satellite sites (brownbagmens.co.uk) the section list does the same thing only it doesn't even try to go back to the main site (bbclothing.co.uk) , it just tries to load the file on that site (again, not in an acatalog drectory)

Jos

[NormanRouxel]

Best give details of steps that fail so I can try them from here.

[jmedinger]

Ok here goes

Main Site : www.bbclothing.co.uk
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From a non Actinic generated page outside the acatalog directory e.g.

Help & Info page

Clicking on the 'Search by designer' section list results in the correct filename being called but NOT redirecting to the /acatalog directory

Satellite site : www.brownbagmens.co.uk/designers.html
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Clicking on Evisu (or any arbitrary name) in the section list here results in different things for different browsers

IE 6 : redirects to http://www.bbclothing.co.uk/evisu.html
Opera 7.5 : redirects to http://www.brownbagmens.co.uk/evisu.html
Firefox V1 : redirects to http://www.brownbagmens.co.uk/evisu.html

None of which exist!

The correct URL it should be going to is
http://www.bbclothing.co.uk/acatalog/evisu.html

Could this be anything to do with the BASEHREF Actinic codes in Act_Primary?

Isn't there also a FORCED HREF command you can put in? Is that at all relevent?!

Any help much appreciated!

Jos

[Nadeem]

Hi there

The forced basehref is for brochure pages in Actinic. You could try putting this tag under your </title>

<Actinic:BASEHREF VALUE="http://www.bbclothing.co.uk/acatalog/"/>

But what i would also suggest is where you have the document write for the sectionlist, try spanning some form tags around it.
Eg like the following

<form name="Act_SectionDroplist">
<script language=Javascript1.1>document.write(ACT_DropListBox(sections))</script>
</form>

Kind Regards