CUSTOMVAR's in popup windows..

[Evil-Ernie]

I want to put custom varibles into my popup windows but when I put them in they dont work. Is there something I should be doing to make this work?

[wjcampbe]

I have not tried this, but several things spring to mind that are worth checking.
Have you added your Customvar name to the list in Design | Options and ticked 'use as customvar' and allocated a default value (can you allocate an empty value)?
Do you specify a value for the customvar in the product you are opening the popup from? Have you added the customvar in a visible area of the popup template?
hth

[Evil-Ernie]

Yes to all of the above. It just prints out in the open window CUSTOMVAR:POPINFO (popinfo is the variable name) which leads me to belive that Actinic isnt reading the CUSTOMVAR's at all.
At the mo Im working on using JS and a variable in the URL query string to pass the information into the popup, trouble is its turning into a plumbers nightmare for no real gain

[wjcampbe]

Well, I just tried this on my own site and it worked flawlessly. In Actinic, I navigated to one of my products that uses an extended info popup and from that page I clicked the edit button beside the layout description, to ensure I edited the correct template.

I inserted <br>CUSTOMVAR:ALTRIGHTBARTEXT after the NQV:EXTINFO and before the </TD>.

The default contents of my CMV showed up on the popup page. Which extended info layout are you amending? My test was with Act_ExtendedInfoLeftText.html.

[jont]

Bill - out of interest is your CMV a globally specified value or are you adding the details locally (against each product)

[wjcampbe]

Just tried it both ways. The local over-rides the global. I am testing local, not on the website, but I have no reason to expect it would work any differently.

[jont]

Thanks for that

[Evil-Ernie]

Didnt need to go down the JS route after all (damn! I thought I had a use for a natty URL grabbing code )
What I was doing was having a completly seperate HTML script for the popup and then a javascript: popup command in the general>description part of the product.
This was not working because its not a template, but then what I did was make a link in extended information and made the original HTML script the template for the popup, Bobs your uncle the jobs a gud un!