Various Actinic Install Questions

[aziz]

I am setting up Actinic Business v6 for a client. A few questions:

1. I uploaded the site yesterday a couple of times. But, each time a few custom HTML pages which I had developed using Macromadia did not upload. Why???

2. Is it possible (in Actinic Business) to make certain sections of the catalog customer specific? I mean specify whaich section can be seen by which custmers.

3. The catalog is et as:

- Product Design
- Product
- Components
- Attributes
- Choices - Drop down list with corresponding prices

From the Drop Down list, a choice is made, quantity (say, e.g. 3)entered and added to the basket. The quantities shown in the bakst are:

Product 3
Choice 3

This is not acceptable. I would not like to see any quantity against the produc. In other words, the only quantity showing in the basket should be the choice (from Drop Down list) quantity. How can I achieve that?


Many thanks for the help.

Best Regards

[cdicken]

1. I uploaded the site yesterday a couple of times. But, each time a few custom HTML pages which I had developed using Macromadia did not upload. Why???

If you customise a fully-generated page and then upload, Actinic will re-generate the page based on the templates in your Site1 folder and overwrite your customised designs. Any design work should really be done in the templates. There is a link in my signature for a 'Designing with Actinic Developer' guide which can give some pointers on this.

2. Is it possible (in Actinic Business) to make certain sections of the catalog customer specific? I mean specify whaich section can be seen by which custmers.

Yes. There is a guide in the Advanced Users Guide to show you how to make certain sections 'Trade Only' (i.e. inaccessible to retail customers). Also, you can un-tick 'Product Visible' within the Prices tab for all the products in a section to make them only visible to certain customers that are part of certain price schedules.

I would not like to see any quantity against the produc. In other words, the only quantity showing in the basket should be the choice (from Drop Down list) quantity. How can I achieve that?

If you have the 'Prcing Model' (within the 'Components' tab of the product) set to 'Sum of Component Prices' then a check box will appear allowing you to have 'No Order Line For Main Product' so that only the component/choice details will be shown in the shopping cart.

Hope this helps

[aziz]

Chris

Thank you for your help. For Q3, I have already got the "Prcing Model" (within the 'Components' tab of the product) set to "Sum of Component Prices" but no check box appears allowing me to have 'No Order Line For Main Product'. Could it be due to a different version, etc.? I am not sure why? I am using Actinic Business v6.

[cdicken]

You also need to have 'Component as separate order line' box ticked within the component. This should enable it.

[aziz]

Stock Updates

Chris

Thanks. Stock are maintained at the choice level. To make sure that the choice(s) made by the customers affects the stock level, do I have to associate each choice to a product within the 'Permutations' tab? Or does the software automatically handle this? In particular,

Ref: Getting Started with Actininc Business
Appendix I - Component Help
For Multiple Choices - I am following Route B. The second sentence of the explanation reads:

"For each permutation within the 'Permutations' tab, select the correct product to associate with it."

How does this affect my setup? Or how do I make sure that the stock are maintained at the choice level?

[cdicken]

Stock are maintained at the choice level. To make sure that the choice(s) made by the customers affects the stock level, do I have to associate each choice to a product within the 'Permutations' tab? Or does the software automatically handle this?

Yes, you need to associate each row in the 'Permutations' grid with a product, in order to keep track of the stock levels of the choices your customers are making. Select an 'associated product' within the 'Product' field in order to do this.