Editing HTML content

[Gourockian]

Hi,

This is my first attempt at working with either Actinic or HTML, so please bear with me. I'm using Business V7.0.3 and trying to set up a website using the 'music' template. I know this is bound to be a basic issue but I just don't seem to be able to find the answer to my problem.

I've managed to change some of the Actinic text via Design/Text but would like to be able to edit the 'country' list to default to United States, plus make some font colour changes, in the Checkout page. I spent quite a bit of time doing this in SiteHTML/ODTemplate, only to find out the hard way that although it looks fine in the Preview page, SiteHTML gets overwritten during upload. At least I've managed to achieve something along the lines of what I'm looking for and fortunately, have saved the edited data to a new file.

So my question basically is: where do I go to edit the content so that it can be saved permanently to the SiteHTML folder and allow me to up load it? I've looked at all the Act_ folders in Site1, including Act_LocationSelectTemplate but don't see anything with the data I need to change.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone might have.

Thanks

Alistair Dunsmore

[jont]

Hi Alistair, welcome to Actinic.

The templates you need to edit are stored in the root of the SITE1 directory... the level up from the SITEHTML directory. When you edit the templates in SITE1 such as Act_Primary.html and Act_ProductLine.html these are then compiled by Actinic to generate the viewable pages that are uploaded to the website.

[jont]

To Set the USA (or any country) as default go to Advanced | Locations and you can move the order by clicking on the country to move and use the up or down arrows to the side.

[Gourockian]

Editing HTML content

Hi John, thanks for the replies.

I found out about the method for rearranging the order of countries by accident last night and then ran into a bigger accident! (You might want to take a look a my other post re UPS and Tax issues).

Now regarding editing in Site 1 templates, I'm sure I'm missing something here because when I open the templates you mentioned, I don't see the data I'm actually looking for. For example, if I want to change the font colour for 'Residential' in the Order Detail page, where can I find the data to edit it? I'm not sure if this is generated by a UPS file as it only seems to appear when UPS Online tools Rates etc. is selected. Should I be looking somewhere for NETQUOTEDEL:PRELIMINARYINFORMATION data and if so, where are these files held?


Thanks again for your help,

Alistair

[Nadeem]

Hi Alistair,

If you open Act_LocationSelectTemplate.html, which is within your site1 folder

NETQUOTEDEL:RESIDENTIAL
		<td width="33%" align="LEFT">NETQUOTEVAR:RESIDENTIALPROMPT<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="NETQUOTEVAR:REQLOCATIONRESIDENTIAL" NETQUOTEVAR:NETQUOTEVAR:REQLOCATIONRESIDENTIAL></td>
NETQUOTEDEL:RESIDENTIAL

You could simply span some font colours around NETQUOTEVAR:RESIDENTIALPROMPT.
[code]
<font color="RED">NETQUOTEVAR:RESIDENTIALPROMPT</font>

To find out what these variables are, have a look in the help file ("Help | Help Topic | Index", and find "Act_LocationSelectTemplate.html)

Kind Regards

[Gourockian]

Hi Nadeem,

Thanks for your reply. It's easy when you know how! The problem is, I have obviously got a lot to learn and not enough hours in the day.


Regards,

Alistair