Customvar in Main Menu

[jont]

I have a Customvar in the Act_Primary which inserts a image as specified in the SECTION | PROPERTIES tab and coded as follows:

<img src="CUSTOMVAR:SECTION_IMAGE" alt="NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER">

This works fine for all sections and subsections other than the MAIN MENU and SEARCH which simply shows the "image missing with a red cross" error as no file is specified - there does not appear to be anywhere to specify an image.

Other than changing the pages manually is there a way around this?

[jont]

Should add this only occurs in IE and not Firefox which simply adds in the Alt text in lieu of the image

[NormanRouxel]

These pages come from cgi-bin or the site root. Your image is in /acatalog.

A <BASE HREF=...> can fix this or use

<img src="/acatalog/CUSTOMVAR:SECTION_IMAGE" alt="NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER">

or

<img src="http://www.mysite.com/acatalog/CUSTOMVAR:SECTION_IMAGE" alt="NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER">

[jont]

Hi Norman,

its not the source thats the problem - they are displaying fine in sections and subsections as I can specify the CUSTOMVAR in the section properties tab to include the file.

As the CUSTOMVAR is embedded into the Act_Primary I can see no easy way to specify which image to use for the MAIN MENU and then on the Search Page - neither of these has a standard properties tab to specify the CUSTOMVAR file.

What about creating a new CUSTOMVAR:IMG that would work such as

<CUSTOMVAR:IMG src="CUSTOMVAR:SECTION_IMAGE" alt="NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER">

then setting the CUSTOMVAR:IMG to "img" in store defaults - would that simply add the imgage where specified and the browser would then ignore the code and not try and insert an image that does not exist? I can live with having no image on those 2 pages.

[NormanRouxel]

Got you now. The CUSTOMVAR is null on certain pages. JavaScript can fix this:

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
if ( 'CUSTOMVAR:SECTIONIMAGE' ) document.write('<img src="CUSTOMVAR:SECTIONIMAGE" alt="NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER">');
//-->
</script>

Just make sure the single quote character is never used in your page header as it will break this code.

[jont]

Many, many thanks Norman - lateral thinking was never a strong point - must try and remember to do things outside of Actinic.

[NormanRouxel]

That little bit of conditional code is quite useful wherever you want to use a CUSTOM property to define an additional image, and that property might be empty in certain cases.

I used it only yesterday in a very concise product template to show a tiny icon of each image with a full-scale popup if you clicked the icon.

<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE -->
<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
var img = 'NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEFILE';
if ( img ) document.write('<img style="cursor: pointer" src=' + img + ' width=50 onclick="ShowPopUp(\'' + img + '\',400,400)">');
//-->
</script>