Before all my hair gets ripped out....

[Dameon]

Can anyone tell me how to do the following tasks in V7,

I am using the Best Seller template and am having trouble with:

I need to keep the primary brochure the same whilst navigating around all areas of the site, but for instance, at the home page the "search" field doesn't appear, then when you navigate to products the brochure changes again.

Also the brochure lists my sections in java, the problem is that it also lists the sub setions, because their are so many sub sections the list is a mile long!
How can i change the java script to only list the main sections in the brochure frame.

Alternatively can someone fix this for me and me pay them lots of money!!!

[Krithika]

Hi

Have you uploaded your site so I can take a look at it?

If I understood your problem correctly, you wish to have a standard layout for the whole of your site, which is not the case right now?

Can you also check in Actinic V7, if for all the sections, in the Layout tab, the Overall Layout template is set to "Use Parent" ?

To get the search function in the Home page, click on Advanced | Template Manager. If you are not seeing buttons, click on Change View. Click on the Main tab and then on Primary. This will open Act_Primary.html. Again, in the template manager, select the Brochure tab and then on Primary. This will open up Act_BrochurePrimary.html.
In Act_Primary.html, find the following lines :
<tr>
<td width="170" height="59" background="search_background.gif" align="right">
<a href="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSEARCHLINK"><font color="NETQUOTEVAR:PALBGCSS">Advanced</font></a>&nbsp;<br>NETQUOTEVAR:SIMPLESEARCH
</td>
</tr>

Copy these on to a Notepad. In Act_BrochurePrimary.html, find :
<tr><td>
<img src="main_pages.gif" width="170" height="27">

Copy the lines from Act_Primary.html starting from <tr> to </tr> and paste them just before the above <tr> tag. Save the file.
Please remember to take a back-up of any template that you wish to modify.

Update the site now and you should have the search functionality on the home page as well.

Cheers.

[Dameon]

Thanks a lot...

I'll give that a try, the site is up now at www.expressheating.co.uk, site undergoing improvements! thanks for the tips

[pinbrook]

if you download the advanced user guide from the actinic website, you will find out how to change the js menus to exclude subsection.

Loads more goodies in the guide too

[Krithika]

Hi

Have you been able to download the Advanced User Guide7 ? If not, you can do so from here.

[You need to download the Actinic v7 Advanced User Guide - zipped Word Format 0.9 MB ]

If you view Pg 14, it tells you about the different placeholders that can be used for creating links within the site pages.

In Act_BrochurePrimary.html, you can place the following links : NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSITEMAP, NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAIL and NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBINFO [referring to Site Map, Email and Terms and Conditions] to appear in the blue bar that runs across in your Home page, just after NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO. For e.g.,

<tr bgcolor="#003366">
<td>NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSITEMAP</td><td>NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBMAIL</td><td>NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBINFO</td></tr>

Hope this helps.

Cheers!!!