I am currently in the process of redesigning an Actinic site whilst trying to incorporate a lot of the features that are discussed in the Advanced Users' Guide. The scripts have all worked very well until I attempted to put them in an external file in an attempt to keep the <HEAD> section clean.
I am curious as to whether or not it is possible to accomplish this. My main concern is that all the scripts require the inclusion of:
I understand that Actinic fills this in automatically upon generation of its pages. However, once this is moved to an external file, I am unsure if it will - or if there is any method of forcing it to - fill in this tag.
In an attempt to test this method, I have created an Act_Primary.html that consists of nothing more than the essential Actinic tags in the head as well as:
In the body, I have limited the page to:
This is the implementation of the script described in the Advanced Users' Guide that should produce a drop down form of all parent sections in the database.
I then have an external file, 'functions.js', which currently contains the script for the form element:
As of yet, this method has yielded no results, merely script errors. It should also be noted that <!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:TOPLEVELSECTIONS_RAW --> has been placed in the page's <HEAD> on the off chance it might do something.
I should be very interested, had anyone managed to get these scripts to work externally from the page. Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated, as leaving the scripts in the page's <HEAD> is untidy practice, and is detrimental to the process of optimising the site for search engines.
I am curious as to whether or not it is possible to accomplish this. My main concern is that all the scripts require the inclusion of:
Code:
<!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:X -->
In an attempt to test this method, I have created an Act_Primary.html that consists of nothing more than the essential Actinic tags in the head as well as:
Code:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="functions.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
Code:
<form name="Act_SectionDroplist">
<script type="text/javascript" src="stinkyink.js"></script>
</form>
I then have an external file, 'functions.js', which currently contains the script for the form element:
Code:
<!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:TOPLEVELSECTIONS_RAW -->
function ACT_DropListBox(ar)
{
var strIDs = '<SELECT SIZE="1" NAME="ACT_droplstbox" onClick="if(options[selectedIndex].value) window.location.href=(options[selectedIndex].value)">'
var sel = " SELECTED"
strIDs += '<OPTION ' + sel + ' VALUE="">Select a Section</OPTION>'
for (var i=1;i<=ar.length;i++)
{
if (ar[i].sURL !=null)
{
strIDs += '<OPTION VALUE="' + ar[i].sURL + '">' + ar[i].sName + '</OPTION>'
}
}
strIDs+='</SELECT>'
return strIDs
}
I should be very interested, had anyone managed to get these scripts to work externally from the page. Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated, as leaving the scripts in the page's <HEAD> is untidy practice, and is detrimental to the process of optimising the site for search engines.
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