Linking to products (as opposed to pages)

[TraceyHand]

Hi folks, I'll be quick (school hols and all that!)
Is there a way of getting a link to a specific product on a page rather than just linking to the whoe page?
Some of my pages have quite a few items on them and I'm sure there must be a way of "jumping" to a specific product (from a link on another page, IYSWIM) rather than linking to the page and expecting the customer to scroll?
ANyone know? I'm sure it's a pretty basic thing really
TIA
Tracey

[omulcock]

Solution

Link to the page and add the following to your link:

#aPRODREF

So if your reference number was 773 and the page was called test54.html your link would look like this

test54.html#a773

It is important that the small 'a' comes before the reference and the reference is case sensitive as far as I remember

[omulcock]

One thing

Remember that the following happens to the reference numbers when actinic sends them to the site so you need to be aware of this when making your links;

/ becomes %2f
. becomes %2e
_ becomes %5f
: becomes %3a
- becomes %2d

[jont]

You can also link to a product and bypass any customer login requirements using

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/ss0000...xxxx&NOLOGIN=1

where xxxx is the product reference number (assuming that is the path to your cgi-bin)

[NormanRouxel]

The forum shortens these URL's so here it is in full.

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PRODREF=xxxx&NOLOGIN=1

Also that escape table is slightly wrong. As Actinic uses underscore as a pseudo escape in anchors.

Special characters in Anchors (just a sample here).

( becomes _28
) becomes _29
+ becomes _2b
, becomes _2c
- becomes _2d
. becomes _2e
/ becomes _2f
; becomes _3b
< becomes _3c
> becomes _3e

[omulcock]

Yes, forgot about that!

[TraceyHand]

Wow!
Thanks for that. I'll print all that info out and refer to it as I need it. It'll definitely be helpful!
Cheers, I love these forums!!
Tracey

[TraceyHand]

Special characters in Anchors (just a sample here).

( becomes _28
) becomes _29
+ becomes _2b
, becomes _2c
- becomes _2d
. becomes _2e
/ becomes _2f
; becomes _3b
< becomes _3c
> becomes _3e

Sorry to drag this thread up agian (its in my favourites!)
Can somebody tell me, please, what character I need to use to convert a SPACE?
Thanks

[wjcampbe]

Tracey, it should be _20 in Actinic and show as %20 in the address bar of your browser.

[Paul Bulpit]

Special characters in Anchors (just a sample here).

( becomes _28
) becomes _29
+ becomes _2b
, becomes _2c
- becomes _2d
. becomes _2e
/ becomes _2f
; becomes _3b
< becomes _3c
> becomes _3e

Just in case anybody finds this thread again, not in the list is:

! becomes _21

which might have saved a lot of bother today!!!