Adding a 'View Basket' link/button in Checkout Page

[Mox]

Hi, I know this answer is simple, yet I've searched the archives and the advanced user guide to no avail and I've also tried dabbling and I still can't get it to work!

Please can someone put me out of my misery!

Many thanks in advance

Michelle

[Mike Hughes]

Sorry that I can't help on this but isn't the basket already shown on the check out pages ? Or are you building a custom checkout that doesn't show the cart contents?

Mike

[Mox]

Hi Mike, no for some reason it isn't.

On our older site (dirtbikestore.com) it shows the sitemap only - still no basket button and that site was always extremely standard (no tinkering at all really) and still is.

I want the basket link there to give people a chance to go back and change quantities etc instead of having to click 'back' to the product pages.

I did see an old thread where someone said they had done it, but they didn't say how!

Many thanks
Michelle

[RuralWeb]

V6!!! - blast from the past. See if there is a selector for the template used for checkout and change it to the main catalog or copy the basket code from act-primary into the checkout pages

[Mike Hughes]

OK. I understand.

You should be able to just use the same html that you use for 'view cart' anywhere else. I have this on the page in my primary template and it works fine on the checkout pages. It is a text link rather than a button, but you could always mimic a button by using an image if that's what's causing the problem.

Mike

Edit: this is the code that seems to work fine in my checkout template:

<a href="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTNIC_REFERRER=http://www.mydomain.co.uk/acatalog/">View Cart</a>

[Mox]

Many thanks for your help Mike and Mal.

Mike - I'm presuming that code would go into the Act_PrimaryCheckout.html ?

(please excuse me, I'm a bit of a numpty when it comes to the templates! )

Thanks again
Michelle

[Mox]

Ah, no, that's not it! I just tried that in the Act_PrimaryCheckout template and that code shows the contents of the cart/basket - not gives a link back to the basket!

Basically, all I want is a link that enables the customer to go back to the "ViewBasket" page from checkout, instead of pressing the back button.

Thanks again
Michelle

[Duncan Rounding]

Ah, no, that's not it! I just tried that in the Act_PrimaryCheckout template and that code shows the contents of the cart/basket - not gives a link back to the basket!...

I'm not sure I understand what the difference is between what you want and what the link does.


Is this what you want:

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART

[Mox]

LOL, yes it is the code (as was Mikes also), many thanks - I'm getting myself confused because I've just realised it's the Act_Order01.html template I need to put it in

All fixed now .... many thanks everyone (and apologies for my ineptness!!)