Additional Information e.g. FAQ sections

[roy jackson]

We are presently evaluating Actinic V7 and using the Smart template. We tend to supply our customer with detailed information on our products for which extended information works well.

We would like to provided a LINK when the customer is viewing a product, this linked info could be in a popup, but we are already using extended info for additional product information. We have tried adding a section with this info in and then link to this from the product, trouble is that these sections are displayed in the products menu, which is not what we want. Using brochure pages does the same and therefore is not an option for us.

Has anyone found a clever way of allowing customers to select a link from a product which would then take them to a page of text without these links appearing in the menus? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

[fleetwood]

Look under Product Details - General Tab

Enter into 'Information Link' something like "click here for more info"
and in 'File/URL box' enter the URL of your info page.

Not sure how you create pop ups, but am sure this can be done.

Martin

[NormanRouxel]

You can embed HTML in the product description so you could call the built-in ShowPopUp routine as many times as you like. There are several posts detailing how to do this. A search for ShowPopUp should do the trick. See http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=4587 for example.

If you want to do this on lots of products then you can make this easier by using a Custom Property(s). E.g. Create Custom Property POPUP1, POPUP2, etc.

Now in your Product Template add

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
if ( 'CUSTOMVAR:POPUP1' )
  {
  document.write('<a href="javascript:ShowPopUp(\'CUSTOMVAR:POPUP1\' ,600,400)">More Info Here</a>');
  }
//-->
</script>

Now whenever you put an URL into POPUP1 the link will appear.