Custom Frame Problems

[Matt P]

I currently have a website that is framed. One of the buttons is online shop which loads acatalog/ into the bottom frame.

Navigating around the shop is fine, but things like continue shopping etc always break the site, in that i mean it loads the whole site into the bottom frame. Any ideas how to stop this happening.

[cdicken]

that i mean it loads the whole site into the bottom frame.

Still don't know what you mean by this I'm afraid. I've just been experimenting with a frame and a test Actinic store and I found the clicking the 'Continue Shopping' button had the expected effect - i.e. the Actinic store returned me to the product pages without disrupting the frameset.

What do you mean by loading 'the whole site'?

[Matt P]

I have a custom frameset of top frame and bottom frame. Navigation on top and pages loaded into bottom frame.
One of the buttons loads the actinic store into the bottom frame.

If i add something to cart its fine! Then if i go back into the cart and click continue shopping, the top frame page gets loaded into the bottom frame, but nothing else.

http://www.conservatory-cane.co.uk/home.html
Try it if you wish. Click product range, then the Naturally Sophisticated, then choose one of the suite, i.e. Alpha. Buy something then try as above.

Sorry for confusing
Matt

[Matt P]

Just noticed that the hidden form element has the referrer as my top frame, i.e. top.html which is why it gets loaded into the bottom page when i click on continue shopping.

How can i stop this.

This is the source of the page thats doing it.
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=CHECKOUTURL VALUE="http://www.conservatory-cane.co.uk/cgi-bin/os000001.pl?ACTION=Start&REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2econservatory%2dcane%2eco%2euk%2ftop%2ehtml">

I assume it should be the last page i was on or something.
Is there any way i can make it go to a certain page.

I think this is happening because my top frame has a view cart button and i just copied and pasted this link into it:

http://www.conservatory-cane.co.uk/c...CTION=SHOWCART so the referrer would be the top frame, therefore messing it up.

Lastly, i have no frames in checkout ticked but it does not remove all frames when i check out any ideas. I have added the custom property of ACT_SETUP_FRAMES_OFF

[cdicken]

Your REFPAGE value now seems to have changed to "http://www.conservatory-cane.co.uk/acatalog/" - which I guess is an improvement, but it just loads the front page of the Actinic store (index.html), which you have not got much in.

You could always put some funky navigation into this page by editing Act_CatalogBody.html.

Also, with regards to the 'no frames in checkout' box, did you actually tick the 'no frames in checkout' box as well as adding the custom property?

[Matt P]

Yeah i changed the refpage to link to http://www.conservatory-cane.co.uk/acatalog/ which was the only way that i could get the site to redirect to something in the bottom frame. The only down side is like you say, its not very nice looking as i made some static pages to do that job.

I have ticked the no frames in checkout as well as adding the custom property.

Exactly what should i need to do to get the checkout to remove all frames as there are various options scattered around like, site uses frames etc.

[cdicken]

In order to remove custom frames when you go into the checkout you need to:

1) Go to 'Design | Options | Miscellaneous' and tick the 'No Frames in Checkout' box.

2) Go to 'Advanced | Custom Properties' and create a new custom property called 'ACT_SETUP_FRAMES_OFF'.

This should work fine. I have tried it with mine (I have a store using an unframed theme running in a custom frame) and it worked as expected.

As an experiment - just try temporarily putting an Actinic-controlled 'view cart' link in your store pages (use 'NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBCART' in Act_Primary.html). See if the HTML for this differs at all from your hard-coded link. Also see whether the checkout frame-removal works when you view cart/checkout with this new button.