How to change date in Prompts

[seemore]

I need to be able to change the months under the Prompts heading. It is for an online ticketing solution for a theme park, but it is only open from March to December, so I need to stop people from choosing those early months when the park is closed.

Here is the example URL:
http://www.paultonspark.co.uk/acatal...n_Tickets.html

Thanks for any help

Nigel

[Krithika]

Hi Nigel

There is a workaround for this. Instead of using the default date options, create your custom selection lists as you have done for "Tickets Required For".

1. Double click on any of the products for which you wish to set-up this option. Within the Prompts tab, clear any message that you might have entered in all the fields. Click OK.

2. Right click on the product, and select New Attribute. Type in Date. Double click on the attribute and for "Select Using", select Drop Down List. Click Ok. Leave "Separator" as 'Space'.

3. Right click on Date and select New Choice. Enter 1. Continue creating choices till you reach 31.

Now repeat steps 2 and 3 for Month (Start the choices from March till December) and Year as well.
To do the same for other products as well, just copy and paste the attributes under them, this will carry forth the corresponding choices as well.

4. To make the drop-down lists appear on the same line, you will need to modify one of the templates. Double click on the product and click on the Product tab. If the selected template is Use Parent, change it to something else, for e.g., "One product per row, image on left". Click on the Edit button next to it and within the template, search for
"<Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS>"

Replace it with......
<table width="70%" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTLABEL1<br>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTSELECTOR1</td>
<td>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTLABEL2<br>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTSELECTOR2</td>
<td>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTLABEL3<br>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTSELECTOR3</td> </tr></table><br><br>
<Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS>

The 3 labels refer to the 3 attributes created.
Save the file. Use this file for all the sections where you wish to have a custom date range and set the Default Layout in the main section under Product tab as 'Use Parent'. Please make sure that the individual products have 'Use Parent' selected as well. (General Tab).

Preview the site.

Hope this helps.

[seemore]

Thanks Krithika

The workround worked fine for the http://www.paultonspark.co.uk/acatal...n_Tickets.html page, but not for the Family_Supersaver_tickets.html, which has another field for the customer to choose the ticket pack configuration.

I can only get the 'Tickets required for:' to appear when associated to a component. When adding another component for the date range it doesn't display correctly.

Any idea how to get over this one?

Many thanks

Nigel

[Krithika]

Hi

I understand what you mean. To set the alignment right, you need to insert a line into the same template where you placed the NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTLABEL.

After creating the required Attribute (Tickets Required For) and corresponding choices for Family Supersaver tickets, open the modified template.

Find "NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTSELECTOR3</td>".

Copy the following codes :

</tr></table>
<table><tr>
<td>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTLABEL4<br>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTSELECTOR4</td>

and paste them immediately after " NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTSELECTOR3</td> " and just before "</tr></table><br><br><Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:VARIANTADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS> "

This will re-align the Date, Month and Year drop-downs into a single line and the "Tickets Required For" list on to the next line, so that they do not look cramped.

Save the file and preview the changes.

Cheers

[seemore]

Krithika

Thanks for your help - it all works fine now!

Cheers

Nigel