I am using version 7 of Actinic Emommerce and have run to a challenge. I hve several Word documents that I want to be able to create a link to without using the Link tab in the Product details because I want the customer to be able to select which document they want to view. Can any one tell me how to do this simply? Can it be done with HTML code and if so what is the coding needed?
-
-
Simple html embedding in the Product Description is all you need.
Upload the word documents either via FTP or by using 'additional files' (Design > Additional Files) and create an html hyperlink to them in your description text, remembering to surround the entire code with !!< code here >!! so Actinic recognises it as html.
ie
!!< <a href="http://www.yoursite.co.uk/yourwordfile1.doc">Link 1 Description Text </a> <a href="http://www.yoursite.co.uk/yourwordfile2.doc">Link 2 Description Text </a> >!!
If you use the Additional Files to upload your files, you'll need the /acatalog part of the link too as Actinic uploads these into the acatalog folder on the server.
If you're uploading them via FTP, you can place them where you like and create your link accordingly.
Embedding the html this way will mean you can add as many links as you like (just remember !!< at the start and >!! at the end of the entire code)Tracey -
You'd be wise to convert to PDF files too, pretty much the standard that everyone expects nowadays. Word files spell danger and viruses and not everyone has word either, so just a very bad idea to use those. Download cutePDF free of charge and convert them instead.Comment
Comment