Log in customers to a specific section

[crofter]

I need to direct my logged in (trade) customers directly to the trade section and not to the index page (or back to the page they logged in from). The advanced guide tells your how to do it from outside the catalogue but I can't find the 'actinic referrer' within act_loginpage.html.

The reason I need to do this is that the trade customers have a completely different shipping schedule to the retail customers. So I have been forced to create a complete mirror set of trade products with different refernce numbers so that thay can have different shipping - yes I have seen the post for the wish list...............

[TraceyG]

Hi,

The advanced guide tells your how to do it from outside the catalogue

Are you referring to the 'Putting A Login Page Anywhere on Your Site' section?

If so, then this tells you to get it from the generated 'login.html' page found in your SiteHTML folder and not the Act_LoginPage.html template. Be aware that if you are only amending this page (ie not copying the code to a primary template), then it will be overwritten each time you update the site so you will have to keep a copy of the login.html page and manually upload it each time.

[crofter]

Hi Tracey,

I am still stuck. I will try and explain again. I want to redirect my trade customers The only ones who need to login) to the trade section after they have logged in using the normal navigation links. I am building this catalog for a customer and clearly do not want the amendment overwritten each time the site is updated. I beleive I only need the login on the brochure primary and primary templates

[TraceyG]

Hi,

From our knowledgebase:
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Try this:

Create a temporary brochure fragment called 'Test' with a layout of 'Text Only'.

Enter the word [LINK] (with square brackets) into the 'Text' field and then set up the link settings at the bottom of the dialogue to link to the section you want customers to get to after logging in.

Upload the store, and Actinic will create a link that looks something like this:

http://yourdomain/cgi-bin/ss000001.p...html&NOLOGIN=1

Just remove the &NOLOGIN=1 from the end of this URL and customers be shown the login page before then going onto the selected section.

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You can then hard-code the login link on your Act_BrochurePrimary.html page and Act_Primary.html page and then delete the temporary brochure fragment. I hope this helps.