Custom link to shop

[Ruthie]

Hi All,

I'm sure there is a very simple answer to this query but I can't find it anywhere!! I've hardcoded my menu on the brochure pages as I needed to reorder them.

All works fine apart from the link through to the shop pages. I thought there was a NETQUOTEVAR command that could be used NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOG
or
<a href="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOGLINK" onMouseOver="SwapImage('shop','bookshop2.gif')" onMouseOut="RestoreImage()"><img src="bookshop1.gif" alt="The Bookshop" name="shop" border="0"></a>

but it doesn't want to work!

Any ideas?

Ruth

[wjcampbe]

Is bookshop1.gif in your site1 folder? Do you see the graphic on your navigation line or is there a red x in its place?

[Ruthie]

Hi Bill,
the images are there fine and when I was using the NETQUOTEVAR:HEADER instead of my hardcoded menu it all worked fine!

If I use just a netquotevar I don't see anything. If I use the second command the images are there but it just points to the site root. Site is currently up at
http://trials.actinic.com/trials/trial20150/

Cheers

Ruth

[wjcampbe]

Ruth, can you stick the NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOG and the alternate coding both back into the template and republish the website - there was nothing there for anyone to see.

[Ruthie]

Hi Bill,

that was with the NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOG !
I've changed it to the alternative code so at least you get the image and can see the link it is associating with it.

Cheers

Ruth

[wjcampbe]

Ruth - You don't have an acatalog directory, so no /acatalog/index.html or /acatalog/shop.html page for the navbcatalog to return. Everything seems to be returning Brochure pages at the moment.

Can you add a couple of dummy products and try this again?

[jont]

The link to the Book shop is showing a null location ""

The site is not being located in the /actalog subdirectory but the root of the site .. this may be why the NQV is not working... may be best to hardcode the links to shop.html in the same root folder

[Ruthie]

This has got me really confused now! I'm using NQV for the home and login links and these work perfectly. I've added NQV:HEADERGUIDE back in and this works fine. Am I using the wrong NQV command for my shop link? I thought it should be NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCATALOGLINK.
I tried linking directly to Shop.html (although I'm sure there's other bits that need to be added in as well as the page name) but get file not found.
Any thoughts?

[wjcampbe]

The name of your page is shop.html - no capital letter.

Find this code in your Act_BrochurePrimary.html

<td width=155 align="center" valign="middle"><a href="index.html"><img src="homebar.gif" border="0"></a></td>
   <td width=155 align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://trials.actinic.com/cgi-bin/ss100024.pl?SECTIONID=index.html&SHOP=trlshop20150"><img src="login1.gif" border="0"></a></td>

and change it to

<td width=155 align="center" valign="middle"><a href="index.html"><img src="homebar.gif" border="0"></a></td>
<td width=155 align="center" valign="middle"><a href="shop.html"><img src="shop1.gif" border="0"></a></td>
<td width=155 align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://trials.actinic.com/cgi-bin/ss100024.pl?SECTIONID=index.html&SHOP=trlshop20150"><img src="login1.gif" border="0"></a></td>

(change the shop1.gif to the name of the actual image in your site1 directory) this should add a shop link to your top navigation and get you working while we figure out what is going wrong.

Now, to work on what is going wrong, can you post the settings from the brochure tab in Design | Options?

[Ruthie]

Thanks for your help guys but I managed to suss it in the end with some help from support. Apparently you can't use NQV:CATALOG tags from the brochure pages, it will only work once you are within the shop pages. Therefore any reference has to be completely hardcoded in. For example, the link that works here is:
http://trials.actinic.com/cgi-bin/ss...0150&NOLOGIN=1

One to remember for the future!!

Ruth