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**wjcampbe** · 12-Feb-2008, 12:45 PM

In Design | Layouts, select the existing layout, right click and choose New.

Give it a new name, and add your code to this new layout. Then go to Design | Themes, click the Advanced Themes button, and set your cart pages to use the new Layout.

What could be simpler?

**worthydealer** · 12-Feb-2008, 01:59 PM

Thanks

Hi Bill -

Thanks for that great reply.

That was just the 'steer' I needed - I'll be putting that into effect later tonight.

Thanks again

pete

**worthydealer** · 12-Feb-2008, 03:20 PM

just one little thing ...

Sorry to bother you again, but when you said 'In Design | Layouts, select the existing layout ... ' how do you do that exactly?

Is this something you do under the 'Design' tab, i.e. where you see the page preview and the layout code, or is this something where you go to the top menu 'Design' - you know, where the menu expands to show Themes ... // Design Options ... // Text ... etc.

I can see you can go via this menu Design | Library | Layouts , but once there I can't see 'Shopping cart' in the list of layouts.

Sorry for the ignorance!

**wjcampbe** · 12-Feb-2008, 04:09 PM

No, you'll be creating/amending a new copy of Works Best with Technical and then selecting that against Shopping Cart (and Checkout?) in Advanced Themes.

**worthydealer** · 12-Feb-2008, 05:01 PM

Thanks for your patience!

That's what I'm having trouble with, making a copy of 'Works Best with Technical'. I'm in the code, and I right-click, a menu appears, but there is no 'New' on it.

I highlight the code in the code window, then right-click, but again no 'New' on the menu.

I can't think of any other way to try to select this Layout, there don't seem to be any other options on any menu anywhere ...

**leehack** · 12-Feb-2008, 05:03 PM

You want to be in the design library not the design tab.

**worthydealer** · 12-Feb-2008, 05:25 PM

Great - now looking down the list of Layouts listed there.

There is all sort of stuff there that relates to bits and pieces of the shopping cart page - but nothing that seems to refer to the layout for the complete shopping cart page as a whole, such that I could insert some javascript just before the closing <BODY> of just the Shopping cart page.

Unless I'm missing something!

While digging round, I've discovered something on the server in /acatalog called 'SCTemplate.html'. Now, this DOES seem to be the whole shopping cart page, with <BODY> and </BODY> tags. Wouldn't I be better off just inserting my Javascript into that? Or do you think it would just keep getting overwritten with every store Update?

**Duncan Rounding** · 12-Feb-2008, 05:28 PM

Don't change anythng on your server - Actinic will overwrite it.

**worthydealer** · 12-Feb-2008, 05:40 PM

Well, completely stumped now - I can see in Design Manager | Layouts how you can create a new Layout (so thats progress I suppose!).

But it seems Catch 22 -

To create a New Layout, you have to base it on an existing Layout (which is what you meant in your original reply - 'select the Layout'), But the Layout I need isn't there (the layout for the whole Shopping Cart page, as a whole, not just little bits of it).

What's it called in your Design | Layouts box? perhaps that might help.

**leehack** · 12-Feb-2008, 05:41 PM

I think you'd be better contacting someone to do this for you to be honest. It's a 5 minute job, just hard to explain without typing for ages. You select the existing layout, copy it and add your Javascript, you then apply that new layout to the areas where you want to use it, assigning this layout can be done in a few places, site options would be my recommended place.

You could also have a blockif just testing for the specific pages where you want it and adding it for you on your overall layout, which means you only have one layout to maintain then. There are many options, but you need to understand the fundamentals of a template/layout based product to do them.

**worthydealer** · 12-Feb-2008, 05:55 PM

I'm most greatful for your help anyway. Have a nice evening.

**worthydealer** · 13-Feb-2008, 10:03 AM

Hi Bill,

All sorted now, with your help.

Just in case anybody else comes across this thread, I found what I wanted under Settings | Site Options | Layout. Once there, under 'Site', under 'View Cart Page Layout' the drop-down box was displaying my current layout 'Works Best with Technical'. Scroll down to the bottom of this drop-down box, and you get the <New> option.

Click on <New> and a 'New Layout' dialog box comes up where you can create a new Layout based on the current whole-page layout, which is just what I needed.

As Bill said, from there, it is all plain sailing, because when you go back into the Design view, with preview page & code window etc, and select 'Shopping Cart' page as the page you want to work with it's the new Layout you have just created that comes up in the preview / code window. Excellent!

If you create a new Layout this way, you don't then need the step of going into Design | Themes etc. and selecting the new Layout page, this is done automatically for you.

Why the original Layout isn't included in the Design Library is anybody's guess - if it had been, it would have saved me a bit of time ....

**leehack** · 13-Feb-2008, 10:14 AM

Originally posted by worthydealer

Why the original Layout isn't included in the Design Library is anybody's guess - if it had been, it would have saved me a bit of time ....

I think your problem is that it is located towards the bottom of the list, by which time you have probably given up and cannot be bothered to look properly.

DESIGN | LIBRARY | LAYOUTS | Web Page Outer Layout?

**worthydealer** · 13-Feb-2008, 10:55 AM

Well, I'll be blowed!

Yes, there it is, right where you said ! - I'd swear it wasn't it in the list yesterday!

So that's it, that neatly resolves everything.

The only thing now is that after all that, I'm not entirely sure if the Shopping Cart page is the right place for my piece of javascript afterall, but that's a different thing entirely ... !

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