textbox with product

[Landgreen]

I have a client that is selling chairs in a variety of colours. He wants a textbox to go with the product where the customer can write which colour he wants.
It of course needs to be on the invoice/packing list too.

cheers
rasmus landgreen, dk

[Jan]

If you look at the product details you should see a tab called 'Prompts' on the advanced part of the dialog. You could use one of those, the values entered are listed on the reports.

See http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/Exchange_Rate_Mole.html, you'll have to add one to the cart to see the prompt because it is shown on the confirmation page.

Regards

[allen]

If there's a set range of colours, then using components and attributes to create a drop-down would probably be a better way to do this.

Allen

[Landgreen]

thx both of you.

Jan -> thats exactly what i wanted. Except it would be nice to have it in the product pages instead of the checkout/order pages.

Can it be done?

Allen -> He's using a dropdown now, but it's so long that it wont fit in the screen when running 800*600. Thats the reason. Otherwise, i'd agree with you.

[Jan]

If you specify 'Quantity on Product Page' for the section the question should be displayed on the product page.

Regards,

[Landgreen]

thx jan. just found out too.

[NormanRouxel]

You could also try using Radio Buttons instead of the drop down. This would let you fit them across the screen as well as down. With these you can also embed tiny images of each colour by using the HTML for Name field to either contain an image or put the description in a table with a pre-set background colour.

Norman

[Landgreen]

hi norman.

thx - but hes peculiar this one... he wants it this way :p

i have another thing i need your help with:

Imagine a section consisting of 9 pictures set up 3x3 like a gallery.
When you click one of the images it activates a popup, where there is a large product image, with all the attributes and prompts i use for the product - along with the 'add to basket' button. In short - all the product stuff, just not in a long list like normal, but as a popup. Get what i mean? (My client has got a #¤!%# lot of products and it takes forever to load each section, so we want to do it this way. There might be other solutions to this problem, but the one im looking for is the popup-thing.

Sincerely hope you can help me out.

rasmus landgreen, dk

[Landgreen]

actually im having quite a hard time constructing the gallery thing - thought it would be piece of cake. The thing i've done (that didnt work out) is creating a sub-section, and in 'general | description' put the code in for the "gallery" i want. But how do i link to each product? They havent got html-names like sections.

[NormanRouxel]

Attached are two ways of doing something like you require.

The first is an older demo of adding the Cart code to the popup page.

Norman

[NormanRouxel]

Here's the second (Forum only allows 1 attachment per post).

This one allows you to have a drop down list of products where selecting one fires off a popup page complete with attributes and Add to Cart button.

Norman

[Landgreen]

thx norman

but unfortunately, i still have some problems...

1) The first suggestion you made doesnt have the attributes, but only the 'add to cart'-function like you said. And every product has 4-5 attributes. So that wont work.

2) Drop-down is out. That could possibly be altered, but then there is another problem. There is a text prompt, where the customer is needed to state something when buying. I need to have this prompt in the product page, and not on the confirmation page. And it goes with the quantity thing, which i then need to keep on the product pages...

:(

I still need some way of figuring out the "gallery" thing, if you have any ideas - any at all. I would be very grateful (once again)

rasmus landgreen, dk

[Landgreen]

thx norman

but unfortunately, i still have some problems...

1) The first suggestion you made doesnt have the attributes, but only the 'add to cart'-function like you said. And every product has 4-5 attributes. So that wont work.

2) Drop-down is out. That could possibly be altered, but then there is another problem. There is a text prompt, where the customer is needed to state something when buying. I need to have this prompt in the product page, and not on the confirmation page. And it goes with the quantity thing, which i then need to keep on the product pages...

:(

I still need some way of figuring out the "gallery" thing, if you have any ideas - any at all. I would be very grateful (once again)

rasmus landgreen, dk

[NormanRouxel]

You can exactly create the "Gallery" effect by creating a section with 4 sub-section links across the page (click the section, go to Advanced / Layout and Location and Arrangement of Section Links set Overide... and set the First row... and Subsequent Row.,.. to 4.

Now make sa ub-section for each product with the product image for the Section Image. And, finally, put the appropriate single product within each sub-section.

Norman

[tomkruse]

Hi Norman
Have downloaded your second option which seems to solve a problem i have with multiple add to cart buttons in v6.

Only a small problem: how can I make the popup stay on top?
If customer klik outside popup it disappear, and he may not know it is still behind the main screen.

Had a problem with the close button that came up with "page not found", so deleted this part.

Test site can be seen at.
http://tomkruse.linux01.dandomain.dk/acatalog/Internet_butik_H_k____L___81.html

Tom

[NormanRouxel]

how can I make the popup stay on top

Sorry I don't know. Not my area of expertise. Perhaps someone else will.

Norman

[cdicken]

There is a change in 6.1.0 whereby the popup window automatically receives focus when it is triggered. Is this what you are asking?

As far as I know, there is no way to force a browser window to always stay on top.

[NormanRouxel]

Oh well. Perhaps that's a good thing or all those spam sites would be throwing things at you that always stay in focus.

Norman

[tomkruse]

Hi Chris
yes, perhaps it will solve my problem, but cannot use this untill you come with new release that fix:

"Sites with a large number of products may experience slow performance in opening dialogs"

I am sure I have seen sites where popup stay on top if you click an area outside popup!

Tom