Exclusive special offers

[stampingmad]

It's about that time of year when I like to drive myself nuts with actinic mods. Can anyone help me with the following -

I am trying to set up an exclusive special offer for members only. I have done a page with basic javascript password protection and I want to showcase a product at a special price.

Using Norman Rouxel's code on the forum I have created a hyperlink which will add the prouct to the basket from an external page.

http://www.stampingmad.co.uk/furry.htm

The most important thing for me is that the product should not be accessible to anyone else so I can't have the product visible within the catalog. I have created a product which I ticked "can be ordered online" but ticked "hide on website".

I thought this was all quite cunning until I tried my link and got this error -

General Script Error Occurred

Error: The specified product (reference a6268) has just been removed from the catalog. Please return to the catalog and continue shopping. If you press the Refresh or Reload button on your browser, the removed products will no longer be visible in the catalog. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Is this possible or am I wasting my time? (we can't afford Actinic Business but I am looking forward to Catalog 7 to see what offers we can create with it)

Thanks in advance, best wishes

Helen

[NormanRouxel]

Helen,

Something seems to have changed in the way Catalog behaves here. You used to be able to buy a "hidden" product in the way you were trying. I've noticed this probelm only recently myself. Perhaps someone from Actinic can comment?

A workaround is to make the product normal and visible but to use a template for it where EVERYTHING is commented out. This example is from V6 so it may have a few unnecessary additional var's.

<!-- Invisible_ProductLine HTML begin -->
<!-- Insert HTML for the top of the individual product -->
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE Act_ProductSeparator.html -->
NETQUOTEVAR:ENDSEPARATOR

<a name="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR">

<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMBEGIN
     NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEBEGINXML
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF 
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTDESCRIPTION
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRICEEXPLANATION
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE
     NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOLINK
     NETQUOTEVAR:EXTINFOBUTTON
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBEGINLINK
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTLINKTEXT
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTENDLINK
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRICEEXPLANATION
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE
     NETQUOTEVAR:OTHERINFOPROMPT
     NETQUOTEVAR:DATEPROMPT
     NETQUOTEVAR:CARTERRORXML
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY
    <Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:ADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS>
     NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEENDXML
     NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTFORMEND -->

NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT
<!-- Insert HTML for the bottom of the individual product -->
<!-- Invisible_ProductLine HTML end -->

The only side effect is that this product will show up in searches and clicking the link will take you to whatever page you put it on.

Norman

[stampingmad]

Stunningly brilliant. I didn't quite get it at first but when I worked through it all became clear.

Thanks a lot, best wishes

Helen