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**party_pete** · 15-Nov-2005, 10:21 AM

I agree with Nick, this would be a very useful feature.

For me, it would also be useful to get the customer redirected back to the main section after purchasing the product from this 'new' window rather the back to the 'new' window that the item was purchased from.

**eternalnomad** · 15-Nov-2005, 10:40 AM

Hi Luddite, yes this is possible (and looks very nice)

The site I am currently building uses this "style"

see the advaned guide page 24 - you will need to follow the instructions for "Creating a Lising Page...." AND "Creating a Page of Thumbnail...."

Also be aware that if things start to "play up" then compact the database as I spend literally days wandering what I was doing wrong when it appears that Actinic was failing to refresh its DB connections

Have a look at my site below (its still in *very* early development phases) but you should see that the effect you descibe is being used on my site.

Be careful though if accessing my site from a "work" location as the content is of an adult nature.

EternalNomad
http://www.sharedpleasure.com
Over 2000 items of Adult Toys, Tools, Lingerie, Books and Movies

**Luddite** · 15-Nov-2005, 10:53 AM

I'm blushing

Something for everyone on your site! I checked out your 'batteries' section as it looked the safest.
Thats exactly what I want to do, so thanks for posting. Just got to do it now.
Nick

**eternalnomad** · 15-Nov-2005, 10:59 AM

Hi Luddite,

if you need any help with the setup then feel free to drop me an email to

sales@sharedpleasure.com

Happy to help

My next upload of the site includes being able to click on the thumbnail image to take you into the "extra info" screen with the large image (this took some "messing around")

**Luddite** · 20-Feb-2006, 03:32 PM

linking product with product in sub section

OK, i'm getting somewhere now.

My first problem now is linking up the new sub section with the product - I realise that makes no sense - so have a look at:
<link removed>,
the first product on there (sgt pepper jotter pad) should link to a product in a sub section that has full details. Can I adapt the 'extended info' tab in 'product details' or is their something else I should do? I've tried the 'links' tab on product but no joy either. I have made the new sub section, but you can only see it by clicking the little green dot (where subsection thumbs would normally be).

This isn't the last of my problems, but i'll leave it there for now!

Cheers - Nick

**Luddite** · 21-Feb-2006, 12:13 PM

Creating a Listing Page which Links Through to Details Pages

When using the 1 product per section format, presumably there has to be a NQV in the template to pick up the details on the 'link' tab in prod details. Can anyone tell me what this NQV is as i'm at abit of a loss.

I'm so close to where I want to be, but just can't seem to link between the product and the section (which has the 1 product with more details in).

Anybody know what i'm doing wrong.

(BTW - if it helps - i'm using p24 of the adv user guide to try and do this)

Cheers - Nick

**Duncan Rounding** · 21-Feb-2006, 03:03 PM

I use a single product per section also - with parent sections containing duplicate products with short descriptions and smaller pictures etc.
To be able to click on the duplicate (image or link) then what I do is as follows:
For the text link -
I put [LINK] in the description and then configure an Advanced Link with some link text to the product.
For the image link -
I have modified my Act_ProductLine template where:

Code:

NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBEGINLINKNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE

is changed to

Code:

<A HREF =http://www.mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PRODREF=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE&NOLOGIN=1 TARGET="_self">
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBEGINLINKNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE 
</A>

You can see an example here:
http://www.fancylines.co.uk/acatalog/Corsets.html
Note: Adult Lingerie Site

**Luddite** · 21-Feb-2006, 04:54 PM

Thanks Duncan, thats really helpful. I seem to have a different problem now though. Every time I try to edit my brochure templates they end up a complete mess i.e. I end up with 2 prices, 2 titles etc. The templates were built by Gary Hay, and as you probably know Gary isn't active on these boards anymore! I've attached the html for the custom template - i'd be grateful if you (or anyone else) could take a look to see if you can give me any pointers.

HTML Code:

<!-- ProductLine HTML begin -->
<!-- Insert HTML for the top of the individual product -->
<link href="actinic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE Act_ProductSeparator.html NETQUOTEVAR:ENDSEPARATOR NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN 
<td valign="top"> NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEBEGINXML 
  <table width="150" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#999999" class="prodbox">
    <tr> 
      <td height="80" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font color="909737" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE<a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR"> 
        </a></font></td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td height="149" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#F2F1DC"> 
        <!--<div align="center"><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="1">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</font></strong></font><font size="1"><br>
          </font><a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF</a>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTS<br>
          NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTONNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE</span>
          <p><span class="actxxsmall"><Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS></span></p>-->
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td height="35" colspan="2"> <div align="center" class="actxxsmall"><strong>NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</strong></div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td height="19" colspan="2">NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTS</td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td width="57%" height="51">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE</td>
            <td width="43%"><Actinic:ACTIONS><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="#00FF00"><br>
              <br>
              </font></span></Actinic:ACTIONS></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="bottom"> 
            <td height="23" valign="top">NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTON</td>
            <td align="right" valign="top">NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</td>
          </tr>
        </table></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEENDXML NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMEND</td>
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT
NETQUOTEVAR:ENDSEPARATOR
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN
<td valign="top"> NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEBEGINXML 
  <table width="150" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#999999" class="prodbox">
    <tr> 
      <td height="80" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font color="909737" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE<a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR"> 
        </a></font></td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td height="149" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#F2F1DC"> 
        <!--<div align="center"><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="1">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</font></strong></font><font size="1"><br>
          </font><a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF</a>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTS<br>
          NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTONNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE</span>
          <p><span class="actxxsmall"><Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS></span></p>-->
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td height="35" colspan="2"> <div align="center" class="actxxsmall"><strong>NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</strong></div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td height="19" colspan="2">NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTS</td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td width="57%" height="51">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE</td>
            <td width="43%"><Actinic:ACTIONS><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="#00FF00"><br>
              <br>
              </font></span></Actinic:ACTIONS></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="bottom"> 
            <td height="23" valign="top">NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTON</td>
            <td align="right" valign="top">NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</td>
          </tr>
        </table></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEENDXML NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMEND </td>
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT
NETQUOTEVAR:ENDSEPARATOR
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN
<td valign="top"> NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEBEGINXML 
  <table width="150" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#999999" class="prodbox">
    <tr> 
      <td height="80" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font color="909737" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE<a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR"> 
        </a></font></td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td height="149" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#F2F1DC"> 
        <!--<div align="center"><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="1">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</font></strong></font><font size="1"><br>
          </font><a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF</a>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTS<br>
          NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTONNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE</span>
          <p><span class="actxxsmall"><Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS></span></p>-->
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td height="35" colspan="2"> 
              <div align="center" class="actxxsmall"><strong>NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</strong></div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td height="19" colspan="2">NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTS</td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="top"> 
            <td width="57%" height="51">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE</td>
            <td width="43%"><Actinic:ACTIONS><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="#00FF00"><br>
              <br>
              </font></span></Actinic:ACTIONS></td>
          </tr>
          <tr valign="bottom"> 
            <td height="23" valign="top">NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTON</td>
            <td align="right" valign="top">NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</td>
          </tr>
        </table></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEENDXML NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMEND </td>
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT





<!-- Insert HTML for the bottom of the individual product -->
<!-- ProductLine HTML end -->

**wjcampbe** · 21-Feb-2006, 05:20 PM

Each occurrence of NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME will translate to the Product name, and each occurrence of NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE will translate to the price.

Which one of the two showing do you want to keep?

**Luddite** · 21-Feb-2006, 05:33 PM

Bill - this really does prove that you sometimes need a fresh pair of eyes! I've been looking at this bloody template all day and hadn't noticed the duplication.
I still don't fully understand why, as this code stands, it only generates 1 price, 1 name etc - but as soon as I try and edit it it shows the duplicated NQV's - but thats a problem for another day.

Back to the drawing board (tomorrow though - can't face it now, and theres footie on the telly tonight!)

Nick

**wjcampbe** · 21-Feb-2006, 05:47 PM

This one

Code:

        <!--<div align="center"><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="1">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</font></strong></font><font size="1"><br>
          </font><a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF</a>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTS<br>
          NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTONNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE</span>
          <p><span class="actxxsmall"><Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS></span></p>-->

is almost commented out, If there was a space between the initial  it would be commented out correctly. That portion of code would then not be processed by Actinic and there would be no duplication.

**Luddite** · 27-Apr-2006, 02:04 PM

I'm nearly there with this. The only thing left for me to sort out is changing what the 'more details' button does. At present, it opens a pop-up, but I want it to open my new section (with 1 product in it). Help!
Nick

**jont** · 27-Apr-2006, 02:33 PM

Nick - have you tried using the [LINK] option instead?

**Luddite** · 27-Apr-2006, 02:38 PM

It won't work for some reason - what NQV would it correspond to?
Nick

Edit: Jont, my templates were 'custom' made by Gary Hay, so maybe he didn't include the necessary code/NQV's to make the [LINK] option work?

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