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**jmedinger** · 09-May-2005, 11:29 AM

Ian

I know you've gone to a lot of work to generate your own popups etc - however aren't you best to let Actinic manage the popups as this is now an integral part of the product interface?

What you're probably seeing is that once a customer is logged in, the links around the site are managed via a cgi script which maintains their logged in status and applies relevant discounts etc.

You can build the content of the Actinic popup with your own images by using the 'include external HTML' code as follows

!!<
<html code goes here>
>!!

Jos

**Ian Fenton** · 09-May-2005, 11:55 AM

Hi Jos

Thanks for your quick reply. I experimented with using the built in pop-up and including external html (a very nice feature) but decided it wasn't the best way for us to proceed (unless you can convince me otherwise). Basically we plan to use an Access database linked to Actinic. Within that Access database are basic product details and a link to Frontpage for editing extended product information (which includes a larger product photo). Frontpage then automatically saves the popup html and photo to a directory under site1. I've tested this and the Actinic/Access link works superbly and it's very simple to keep our extended information up-to-date through Frontpage. To use the built in pop-up would mean having to cut and paste html code directly into Actinic which would potentially cause us some data management issues - ie. from Access is the extended information up-to-date?

However, I think you're implying in your post that we could get round the problem by ftp'ing all our larger images to the cgi-bin - this would be fine. As long as we know it's a way round the problem?

Best regards

Ian

**Ian Fenton** · 09-May-2005, 12:14 PM

Ah... I'm not sure it's quite as simple as I thought. Copying the large images to cgi-bin on first impressions doesn't seem to have worked (possibly because I can't treat cgi-bin as a normal directory?)

Back to the drawing board.

Any ideas?

**Ian Fenton** · 09-May-2005, 12:48 PM

I've also tried changing the CUSTOMVAR value to the full web address of a directory containing the popup file. This again works fine until you log in as account holder. This now fails because the code adds ../acatalog to the beginning of the http address ie ../acatalog/http://www.etc.etc/Popup

I can't believe this problem hasn't arrisen before. Somebody must be linking to external html and using Account logins for their customers?

Any help very much appreciated

Best regards

Ian

**NormanRouxel** · 09-May-2005, 01:14 PM

Either:

Add a <BASE HREF="www.mysite.com/acatalog/"> to the HEAD section of your popup pages (right at the top is best) and that will point the browser at the correct location for your images.

Or:

Do it the Actinic way. Actinic uses the tag (just after the </title>):

<Actinic:BASEHREF VALUE="http://www.mysite.com/acatalog/"/>

which the scripts use to determine the correct path to add to links, images, etc.

**Ian Fenton** · 09-May-2005, 03:21 PM

Thanks Norman. That works fantastastic - problem solved.

However, there's one advantage to what Jos recommended that I hadn't considered. If we use Actinic and the include external html code our extended information popups will be included in Search functions. They won't be if we link to external files as planned - unless there's a way round this?

Best regards

Ian

**NormanRouxel** · 09-May-2005, 06:01 PM

No workaround except you could paste the text from the external pages into Actinic's Extended Info Text field. I've a feeling that it will be indexed even if you don't use the popup. Test it and see.

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