Navbcataloglink???

[con]

Hi there

Ive built a custom nav at the top of a site.
THer advanced user guide said that it would be possible to link into various sections of the site by adding LINK to the end of the button netquotevars
ie
instead of the NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSEARCH in the header just write
<A href="NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSEARCHLINK">

I've done this but it doesn't work???
The site is up at

www.xtrahelp.net/index.html

Anyone know what to do?

C

[Helpless]

The brochure pages support less netquotevars, which you're seeing the downside of. You have to hardcode links in, instead. Its irritating, but there it is.

[con]

Yea

I noticed that the problem only arises in the brochure section.
Guess I 'll hard code it in then.

[con]

Ok so I hard coded the links using standard
<a href="info.html"> style links and it works fine, well kind of.
I used the same links in both act_brochure_primary and act_primary templates and I got wierd results.

So I then varied the file paths on the brochure pages as the index page sits outside of the acatalog folder BUT THEN I found that links stopped working on pages like contact and about (I'm presuming its because, although they are brochure pages and use the brochure template, they sit within the acatalog folder) so how do I hard code in the links???

Help!!!

C

[cdicken]

Use a link of the form:

http://your.URL/cgibin/
ss00000x.pl?SECTIONID=pagename%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

where

your.URL is your domain
pagename%2ehtml is the name of the file you want to go to (with the '.' encoded as '%2e')

[con]

This is driving me crazy.

I've used the link ref
http://your.URL/cgibin/
ss00000x.pl?SECTIONID=pagename%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

but it seems to cause the same problems.
The problem "seems" to be that the home page is located outside of the acatalog folder while the other brochure pages are inside it. will this not confuse things.

is the
http://your.URL/cgibin/ss00000x.pl?
part of the link code the same for all sites or could it vary?

connor

[cdicken]

I suspect you are having a problem with session files. These are the online store's record of you, and they store what you think the 'BASE HREF' of your store (i.e. the Catalog URL) is. These files have an extension of *.session.

If you have got 6.1.0 (or higher) go to 'Help | Troubleshooting' and click where it says 'Purge Session Files' and then try again. Otherwise, FTP to your site and delete all *.session files.

In my experience, you can just put the filename in and Actinic can link to it OK, whether it is the first brochure page or subsequent brochure pages.

[con]

I tried that and it didn't work.
Can anyone clarify a few things.

My home page is named home and is located outside of the acatalog directory. Is this OK?

My other brochure pages are located inside the acactalog directory.

On the primary template I have used the NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSEARCHLINK style to link to standard actinic pages. This works fine.

On the brochure pages I have been using
http://your.URL/cgibin/
ss00000x.pl?SECTIONID=pagename%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

This doesnt seem to work on any of the pages.
Does the spelling of the cgibin matter?? for instance here http://your.URL/cgibin/ it is spelt "cgibin" whereas on my site its "cgi-bin" if the cgi bin sits within a www folder does it need to be "http://your.URL/www/cgibin/"

I have tried just hard coding in eg <A href="contact.html"> But while this will work on ppages within the acatalog folder it is not the correct path on the homepage which is out side of the acatalog folder.

The site is located at 217.114.167.164
If you would like to have a look at it?

Thanks Con

[cdicken]

Does the spelling of the cgibin matter??

Absolutely. It will not work if it is spelt wrong. The URL I gave to you was just an example. You need to change it so it is based on your own server settings. Also, you need to replace the 'x' so you use the correct name for your search script - in your case it is 'ss000001.pl'.

The path you need for your 'contact us' page is:

http://217.114.167.164/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SECTIONID=contact%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

This works fine.