Customer accounts & hardcoded links

[pharry]

These two things aren't getting along at all.

I just implemented accounts, and now I've created some problems.

I have a list of "Coming Soon" products, and a list of "What's New" products. Both of these lists are very popular. However, now that I have accounts, we have trouble. I assume it is because the link takes the customer to the non-logged-in page, so when they try to add to their cart from there, they get errors.

Is there a way to hard-code these links to work with registered and non-registered viewers? I send the links out also in an email announcing new product arrivals.

Coming soon link when I'm not logged in:
http://apeekintoyesterday.com/acatalog/Coming_Soon.html

What's New page when I'm not logged in:
http://apeekintoyesterday.com/acatal..._Supplies.html

[Krithika]

Hi Pat

Couple of thoughts about this.

1. For hard-coded links, you could use a URL like : http://URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?SECTI...html&NOLOGIN=1 , where :

· http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN
· ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number
· Test%2ehtml = Test.html, which is the page name for the section.
· &NOLOGIN=1 is an essential tag to add to the end of the URL in order to bypass the login page

2. I have also noticed that certain links on your site point to http://www.apeekintoyesterday.com/ac...artridges.html , while some point to http://apeekintoyesterday.com/acatal...artridges.html (without "www"), as also in your post above. Is this intentional ?