How do I link to a specific product ?

[geek]

From a normal link on the main website, I would like to link it to a specific product in a list of products. But I can only manage to get the link to goto the catalogue page, which means the customer must then scroll down the page to find the product.

In HTML you can use anchor tags, should it be done the same way when linking to the Actinic Catalog product? If so, should I be using the product's full title as the anchor?

Can anyone give me a text example of this please ?

[garyhay]

From a Tracey Garret (Actinic Support) post

Hi,

Our Advanced User Guide gives instructions on what you need to do in the 'Taking People Straight to a Product' which can be downloaded from here. Basically you need to have the link in the following format:

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?...2345&NOLOGIN=1

Where:
· http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN
· ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number
· 12345 is the product reference of your desired product.
· &NOLOGIN=1 is an essential thing to add to the end of the URL to order to bypass the login page

If you are linking from another website then you also need to add:

&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://your.URL/acatalog/

to the end of the link and specify (changing your.URL for your actual web address). So the full link will look like:

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?....URL/acatalog/


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