URLs for individual products

[janeread]

I need to find the URL for individual products in the catalogue - I want to link to them from my main web site - but I want the screen to show the exact product I want not the top item in the catalogue/section

(I'm new to this and I've had a look through the other strings, but couldn't find an answer to this)

[Jacques]

You just need to add #theproductreferencenumber at the end of the link.

For example on my site :
http://www.distrimed.com/acatalog/La...6.html#a601200
sends directly to the product whose reference number is 601200

Best regards

Jacques

[janeread]

thanks - that worked

[janeread]

I may have spoken too soon!

it's working fine for some product links but not for others. It seems that for duplicate products or products I have used copy/paste it doesn't work (I just end up on the page where the duplicate is listed but not at the actual product) - is that correct or am I missing something?

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic uses the following for duplicate anchors. E.g. if the product reference is "TST123" then the main product anchor is

<a name="aTST123">

and for the 1st duplicate it's

<a name="a1_21TST123">

the second would be

<a name="a2_21TST123">
and so on

The common wierd bit _21 is an Actinic way of converting the duplicates product reference of 1!TST123, 2!TST123, etc into something that will be acceptable within an anchor tag.

Anyway if you have only 1 duplicate use

http://www.mysite.com/acatalog/mypage.html#a1_21<product ref>

If you've more than one you'll probably have to look at the source of the generated page to find the correct anchor name to use.

[janeread]

thanks Norman - that's a great help

[Jarvis]

I'm intigued with this one gents.
(Site below is in development).

For example:
http://cart.grimshawsports.co.uk/aca....html#aTP-0028
does not work.

http://cart.grimshawsports.co.uk/aca...s.html#TP-0028
does work.
Well... Sort of, it goes to the next product.

So what is the point of the "a" and why the next product?
j

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic converts special characters in the product ref to _nn when building the Anchor tag and it add an "a" at the front. So the correct anchor you need is, in fact

http://cart.grimshawsports.co.uk/aca...tml#aTP_2d0028

where the _2d is the replacement code for a hyphen.

If you have special characters in the product ref, you'll have to view the page source to see what they're converted to. For example a space is _20.

[NormanRouxel]

Note that there is another method for making links directly to a product and that involves calling the SearchScript.pl with the true product reference.

This http://knowledge.actinic.com/acatalo...ic.html#aKB697 Knowledge Base article refers.

However this article won't take you to a Duplicate Product. If you want to do that you have to use n!PRODREF where n is the duplicate ID of the one you want (1 - 1st dup, etc).

[Jarvis]

Many thanks for clearing that up for me Norman.
I looked at the Knowledgebase solution but could not get it to work.
I suspected that it might be the "special character" issue, but assumed that that it would be a "%" not a "_" that prefixed the character.
In fact, I tried the "%" with the URL solution and that didn't work either.
In the end I made the post.

Aren't "Standards" wonderful?
So many to choose from.

Again, thanks
j

[NormanRouxel]

Here's how I'd do (NB untested) an spiderable link that goes to direct to a product where the reference contains special characters.

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/acatalog/pagename.html"
   onclick="javascript:location.href='http://www.mysite.com/acatalog/pagename.html' + '#a' + escape('ABC-12').replace(/%/g,'_'); return false;">
ABC-12
</a>

where a spiderable URL is present (that simply takes us to the page top) but the click actually takes us to the real product.