Is NETQUOTEVAR:ACTUALPRODUCTREF supposed to work?

[pinbrook]

Hi,
I'm trying to use NETQUOTEVAR:ACTUALPRODUCTREF in the Act_RightProductLine.html template, but it does not seem to return anything - it just appears as NETQUOTEVAR:ACTUALPRODUCTREF in the preview code.

Is there any way of making this work? (I need the product ref returned, in a pure form - no # codes or anything).

Thanks,
Nick Morecroft.

[pinbrook]

The reason I would like the Product Ref, is that I am trying to add increase/decrease buttons to the side of the quantity box.

I have successfully done this with the following code:

In your ProductLine template, after:
NETQUOTEVAR:CARTERRORXMLNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY

add:
<input type=button value="up" onClick="javascript:this.form.Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF.value++;">
<input type=button value="down" onClick="javascript:this.form.Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF.value--;">


The problem being; if your catalog uses anything but letters or numbers in it's reference numbers, Actinic renders the NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF field with entity references instead of the actual characters, rendering the script useless.

e.g. A product ref of PPAIWT/S would render as PPAIWT&amp;#47;S in the code. (This also happens with other characters, such as - )


To get round this, I was hoping NETQUOTEVAR:ACTUALPRODUCTREF might render the product ref without re-formatting it, but as I've said before, it does not even get generated, just appearing as NETQUOTEVAR:ACTUALPRODUCTREF in the final code.


Nick.

[pinbrook]

P.S. I had to remove all the text from the language settings to get the code using NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF to work.

Design, Text, Web Site, Misc tab;
(Reference #%s) - set to: %s

[cdicken]

Try using NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE. That's what Norman uses in his fix for doing hidden quantity values.

[pinbrook]

Thanks, that worked a treat!

By the way, NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE is not documented in the EditingTemplates.pdf file. (Not surprising as the file was last update Aug 2000!)


I'll post the working plus/minus button code as a new thread, so people can get a chance to see it in context.

Nick Morecroft.

[NormanRouxel]

Hi,

I think the NETQUOTEVAR:ACTUALPRODUCTREFERENCE is how it was done in early versions of Actinic and the NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE is how it's done now. The documentation needs changing.

Norman