Dynamic NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE

[paulbeckett]

Hi All

I am looking to implement a text box (75px high) in the footer of my site. Within the box I would like to have page specifc text (e.g. on a cufflinks page the text box would contain info on cufflinks, and so on).

I plan to use the custom properties of the page to dynamicaly drive the contents. Therefore I have set-up a CUSTOMVAR:TEXTBOXINFO. However because of the character limits within the custom property field, I have set-up a .txt file to drive the content.

However I am having trouble getting this to work. Heres my stab at the code I will use in the footer:

<div style="width:100%;height:75px;overflow:auto;">
NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE CUSTOMVAR:TEXTBOXINFO
</div>

which should translate to:

<div style="width:100%;height:75px;overflow:auto;">
NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE cufflinks.txt
</div>

This is not working - am I doing something wrong our is my design incorrect.

Any help appreciated.

Paul

[NormanRouxel]

Just use

<div style="width:100%;height:75px;overflow:auto;">
CUSTOMVAR:TEXTBOXINFO
</div>

and when setting the Customvar, tick Is File Name and Use File Contents.

[paulbeckett]

Hi Norman / all

I have entered the code above into the following area:

Design Option > Shop Defaults > Header & Footer > Footer field. That is where my footer code is contained and therefore it is on every page of the shop.

I am then setting the Customvar, ticking Is File Name and Use File Contents, within the Section or Sub-sections properties. Will the sub-section properties populate something in the Header and Footer?

At the moment the only text appearing in the text box I have created is the CUSTOMVAR:MARKETINGTEXTBOX. This should be replaced by the text in the .txt file???

See example at bottom of page: http://www.kjbeckett.com/acatalog/au...eatherpen.html

Paul

[NormanRouxel]

NETQUOTEVAR's and CUSTOMVAR's usually work only in Templates. You're putting this info into a data field in Actinic where it's just treated as text.

There are at least 2 workarounds.

1) You can get quite a lot of text into the Header and Footer field (design / Options / Shop Defaults / Page Header/Footer). Are you sure it won't all simply fit as text. Embed HTML within !!< and >!!

2) Look in Act_Primary.html and put your CUSTOMVAR in the same place as the NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERTEXT.

[NormanRouxel]

I just tested and you can get a [b]huge[b] amount of Text into design / Options / Shop Defaults / Page Header/Footer. Just type it up in a text editor (e.g. Notepad) and copy / paste the lot into the tiny entry window.

<EDIT>This may not help a lot as I've just re-read the original post and you want it different on each page.

My second suggestion above should do that.