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**Kermy** · 07-Sep-2005, 08:31 AM

The isn't a setting that can override the cart being displayed. It is possible to hack the perl so the user bounces right back to the 'clicked from' page, but this could easily affect other bounce processes such as login or search error messages.

**testeruk** · 10-Sep-2005, 12:16 AM

Kermy,

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Finding this one a real pain in the neck, maybe Actinic could think about this as a WIBNI (Wouldn't it be nice if..)

I'm already fed up with keep clicking "continue shopping" while putting through "test" orders, I can see customers placing orders of say 10 lines feeling the same.

Don't others find this a bind or is it just accepted?

**wjcampbe** · 10-Sep-2005, 12:29 AM

I prefer letting the customer choose whether to continue shopping or proceed to checkout rather than the default action of whizzing them back to the product page before they have a chance to read the page and confirm their item(s) and quantity are correct.

For the shopper who is going back to browse more pages - it's not a problem, for the shopper who intends to head straight for the checkout, its easier. If the 10 lines are all on the same catalog page, consider the 'single add to cart button' shopping mode.

**Kermy** · 10-Sep-2005, 08:13 PM

I find it strange that Actinic has this 'feature'.

The fact that the page has an automatic redirect is just odd - it takes control away from the user at a point when they could be halfway through reviewing their purchases. The better alternative, as Bill says, is to cancel the bounce completely and let the user take full control.

However, from a business point of view, this isn't great either. Your site should be encouraging more purchases by keeping the user on your product pages for as long as possible, not inviting them to checkout every time they add a product. All the cart info - and by that I mean details of contents & current total, as well as checkout buttons - should be together on a panel somewhere on every page, eradicating the need for the 'cart preview' on every 'add to cart' click.

Thats the way I see it, anyway, and I hope Actinic will review the cart functions in V8 with both usability and business preferences in mind.

**Kermy** · 11-Sep-2005, 12:46 AM

If you (or anyone else) are interested, this is how I made the above work. I'm not a Perl master so someone with greater knowledge could probably improve it to avoid the aforementioned interference with search error messages, login failure messages etc (this hack affects any process which uses a page bounce).

All I did was load up actinic.pm in notepad and go to line 2860:

Code:

$sReplaceTag = $sSearchTag . "\n" . $sMetaTag;

I replaced this line with:

Code:

	my $tempStr = "cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SECTIONID";
	if ($ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} =~ /$tempStr/i){
		$sReplaceTag = $sSearchTag . "\n" . $sMetaTag;
		}
	else{
		$sReplaceTag = $sSearchTag . "\n" . "</head><body><script type='text/javascript'>history.go(-1);</script></body></html>";
		}

All this does is insert some javascript which immediately takes the user back to the previous page, avoiding the cart overview. As i said before, I'm positive this script could be improved upon, but it does the job for me!

**testeruk** · 14-Sep-2005, 12:31 PM

Thanks Kermy,

Read your reply.
My need for wanting this to work differently is that we intend to sell timber, each product can have (upto) 16 or so different lengths. Currently I'm trying this as choices of the main product.

If the customer wants 5 different lengths of the same product (without changing the "Standard" Actinic way) the customer may well be thrown back to the correct page (either with or without a confirmation click to continue) but not the same place/product within that page.

I've also looked at (strengths in some areas) and this displays a popup box with what's being added, BUT retains the placing within the current page.

Sorry for the boring product info. but it's all relevent as we don't sell cans of beans! If only life was that simple.

Here is a typical order

47 x 100 mm Sawn Carcassing
1 x 2.1m
2 x 2.4m
5 x 3.6m
4 x 4.8m

and to top it all the price is per metre!

going off topic, sorry.

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