Including Section Tree on 3rd party site

[jmedinger]

Hi there

I need to display the section tree generated by Actinic on a 3rd party (completely unconnected) website

Am I right in thinking that as long as I include

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://www.mainsite.com/acatalog/actiniccore.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://www.mainsite.com/acatalog/actinicextras.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

in the head tags of the page together with the drop down box Javascript

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript"> 
<!-- 
 
function ACT_DropListBox(ar) 
{ 
var strIDs = '<SELECT SIZE="1" NAME="ACT_droplstbox" CLASS="select_box" onChange="if(options[selectedIndex].value) window.location.href=(options[selectedIndex].value)">'; 
var sel = " SELECTED" 
strIDs += '<OPTION ' + sel + ' VALUE="">Select a Section</OPTION>'; 
for (var i=1;i<=ar.length;i++) 
{ 
if (ar[i].sURL !=null) 
{ 
strIDs += '<OPTION VALUE="' + ar[i].sURL + '&ACTINIC_REFERRER=' + escape(location.href) + '">' + ar[i].sName + '</OPTION>'; 
{ 
if (ar[i].pChild) 
{ 
for (var j=1;j<=ar[i].pChild.length;j++) 
{ 
strIDs += '<OPTION VALUE="' + ar[i].pChild[j].sURL + '&ACTINIC_REFERRER=' + escape(location.href) + '">' + '- ' + ar[i].pChild[j].sName + '</OPTION>'; 
} 
} 
} 
} 
} 
strIDs+='</SELECT>' 
return strIDs 
} 
//--> 
</SCRIPT>

and then use

<script language=Javascript>document.write(ACT_DropListBox(section_tree))</script>

to call the drop down list, this will both display correctly AND link the user back across to the main site (as intended)?

Or do I need to include any other Javascript includes to generate the section tree?

The problem I'm having is that this seems to punt them to the correct site but does NOT place them in the /acatalog directory, simply with the correct filename off the root directory

Thanks

Jos

[garyhay]

Actinic support had me link

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="../acatalog/actiniccore.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="../acatalog/actinicextras.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="Act_section_tree.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="Act_sections.js"></SCRIPT>

[jmedinger]

Hi Gary

Those extra 2 lines are essential (I forgot to post them earlier) however in order for the drop down to be displayed, it has to be called from the actual URL it is generated on

i.e. SRC="http://www.mainsite.com/acatalog/actiniccore.js" rather than with a relative link as per your example

If I put the 4 in as per your example

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://www.mainsite.co.uk/acatalog/actiniccore.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://www.mainsite.co.uk/acatalog/actinicextras.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://www.mainsite.co.uk/acatalog/Act_section_tree.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://www.mainsite.co.uk/acatalog/Act_sections.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

I get exactly the same behaviour as before...

1) The resolved link goes to

www.3rdpartysite.com/link.html

RATHER THAN

www.mainsite.com/acatalog/link.html

I wonder if there's some browser inteference from cross site scripting issues (probably security related?)

Any one got any more suggestions?

Jos

[garyhay]

This could be because thier will be no actinic generated BASEREF in the external site

[Nadeem]

Hi there,

Please try the following:

Where you want the dropdown list box to appear, rather than have it as:

<script language=Javascript1.1>document.write(ACT_DropListBox(sections))</script>

Change it to read:

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

Try this and see if it makes a difference?

Kind Regards

[jmedinger]

Hi Nadeem

This doesn't seem to make any difference

You can see the actual behaviour happening on this site

Any further ideas?

Jos

[cdicken]

What do the URLs look like in the .js file? What format are they in? Could you paste a few lines here?