Product Personalization

[jeff p]

We're offering products which can be personalized as an option. If I use "Other information" I get a box that's perfect for typing in the desired info. However, Actinic treats it as a required field and won't let you add the blank product to the cart. If I make it as a component it works perfectly except there's no box for obtaining the personalization. Any help on how to combine these two functions. Thanks in advance.

[NormanRouxel]

You can preset the Other Info Prompt.

Here are 2 ways.

1) If you only want this on some products. Make a renamed copy of your product template and use that one for such products. In your new product template replace

NETQUOTEVAR:OTHERINFOPROMPT

with

<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:OTHERINFOPROMPT -->
<input type=text size="35" name="O_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE" value="No personalisation required" maxlength="1000">


2) If you could use this on all other info prompts. then go to Design / Text / Phase -1 ID 2161 and change to

%s<INPUT TYPE=text NAME="%s" SIZE="%d" MAXLENGTH="%d" value="No personalisation required">

Incidentally if you replace "No personalisation required" with just a space e.g. " " then that does the trick without showing any dummy text.

Norman

[jeff p]

Norman:

Thank you very much...although I've never worked with templates before I'll give it a try.

[jeff p]

I've made the change to the template and saved it Act_ProductLinePers...now the dumb question...I don't see anyplace where I stipulate that Catalog use the new Template.
Thanks in advance!

[jeff p]

It works!!! If I'd only been intelligent enough to save the new template as Act_ProductLinePers.html I wouldn't have asked the dumb question in the first place...Norman...thank you again.

Jeff Pollack:D