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**leehack** · 04-Oct-2007, 10:10 AM

You should be able to just include the full URL to those items, that should do it. I am not aware that you need to put anything in the HEAD area. If you do, then it will be detailed in the AUG as there is an article on 'adding to the cart from anywhere on the web'.

**RuralWeb** · 04-Oct-2007, 10:25 AM

external Actinic pages

Can you clarify what you are talking about - if its non product pages then these should be created within actinic if the are on another domain then they head should contain all the normal meta tags.

**JoJo** · 05-Oct-2007, 02:37 PM

Re: Content of <HEAD> area

Originally posted by RuralWeb

Can you clarify what you are talking about - if its non product pages then these should be created within actinic if the are on another domain then they head should contain all the normal meta tags.

Hi

Yes they are non product pages, they are on the same domain, but rather than being created in the main actinic directory, I have created them outside the directory, mainly as they are information pages only. I know I could have created these within the directory but decided to do it this way. I hadn't thought about the <HEAD> area at the time, but it just occurred to me whether I should put the variables such as:






in the <HEAD> area even though they are not acatalog pages?

Cheers

Johanne

**JoJo** · 05-Oct-2007, 02:41 PM

Re: Content of <HEAD> area

Originally posted by leehack

You should be able to just include the full URL to those items, that should do it. I am not aware that you need to put anything in the HEAD area. If you do, then it will be detailed in the AUG as there is an article on 'adding to the cart from anywhere on the web'.

Hi

Thanks for this, I was a little unsure of what you meant as it is within the same domain that I have the external links. I will check the AUG though as that would be useful to know.

Thanks

Johanne

**RuralWeb** · 05-Oct-2007, 05:05 PM

whether I should put the variables

Ther is no point as they will not be populated by actinic - you need to add the meta details using DW etc

**JoJo** · 08-Oct-2007, 03:41 PM

Re: Content of <HEAD> area for external catalog pages

Hi

Yes I thought that might be the case, only I forgot to mention as I have the shopping cart details on these information pages as well, I wondered whether extra actinic information should go in the Head section for these pages. I have just placed the tags below in the Head section so that the '0' increments when a product is added to the cart:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="acatalog/actiniccore.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="acatalog/actinicextras.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

Thanks

Johanne

**RuralWeb** · 08-Oct-2007, 04:03 PM

I wondered whether extra actinic information should go in the Head section for these pages

Nothing actinic will work in external pages - the only thing you can do is add to cart which is detailed in the AUG.

**RuralWeb** · 08-Oct-2007, 04:03 PM

I wondered whether extra actinic information should go in the Head section for these pages

Nothing actinic will work in external pages - the only thing you can do is add to cart which is detailed in the AUG.

**JoJo** · 08-Oct-2007, 05:40 PM

Re: Content of <HEAD> area for external catalog pages

Hi

The '0' does work for the shopping cart, by incrementing the amount of products in the cart and the value etc. on these external pages, that's the only actinic feature I'm using.

Thanks

Johanne

**RuralWeb** · 08-Oct-2007, 08:07 PM

that's the only actinic feature I'm using

Then I dont understand the question??? If it works as you want why do you need more

**JoJo** · 09-Oct-2007, 01:06 PM

Re: Content of <HEAD> area for external catalog pages

simply because.... as there is an Actinic feature that is working on these external pages, I thought the rest of the content might need to be added in the Head area as well, however as I wasn't sure, thought I'd ask the question as that's what this forum is for.

**pnagames** · 09-Oct-2007, 01:51 PM

Originally posted by JoJo

simply because.... as there is an Actinic feature that is working on these external pages, I thought the rest of the content might need to be added in the Head area as well, however as I wasn't sure, thought I'd ask the question as that's what this forum is for.

Netquotevars and other actinic code usually doesn't work on pages created externally.

this is because Actinic translates the variables to code when it does the upload.

Having the page outside the actinic folder (and i would imagine outside the actinic program itself) is imho pointless. you can create them within actinic as brochure pages, use a template that you want and populate them using fragments. this way you will get more of the actinic code from the amin pages to work

**RuralWeb** · 09-Oct-2007, 02:55 PM

Netquotevars and other actinic code usually doesn't work on pages created externally

Back to my original post - obviously you are not understanding my answers so I will leave it to someone else to help you.

**JoJo** · 10-Oct-2007, 01:09 PM

Re: Content of <HEAD> area for external catalog pages

Hi

Yes it would've been better to have used the Brochure page facility to create the extra pages, but at the time when I was fairly new to web design and designing with actinic, it didn't occur to me to do it this way, mainly as I already had an earlier site that was designed by someone else and they hadn't used the brochure page facility either, so I thought that was probably the best way.
Thanks for your help anyway.

Cheers

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