How do I change the add to cart button to be an image?
This can be done in Settings | Site Options | General .. Look under 'Product' for the 'Add to cart button layout' and 'Cart Button Image'.
How do I remove the horizontal line from above the Single Add to Cart button on my product pages?
Navigate to the layout being used for the product and click on 'Edit List', in the resulting window click on 'Edit Rows and Columns'. Click on the 'After Row' column and then on the ... to edit the code. Change : </tr> <tr> <td class="dotted_line_blue" colspan="<actinic:variab ...
How do I remove the "at 17.5%" from the message "excluding VAT at 17.5%" message from within my product price for each product?
Go into 'Settings | Site Options | Layout' and scroll down to product, against price layout use the drop down to select option of choice. OR On the Design Tab, you can click on price in the preview, then in the layout code navigate to the parent layout, right click and select 'Edit Appearance', ...
Is it possible to hide the Quantity field on the product page, and so force customers to go with a default quantity I set for them?
Yes. This will work with the 'Quantity on Product Page' shopping mode. On the 'Design' tab, click on the 'Quantity' prompt in the preview pane and it should take you to the code in your product layout that looks like: <span class="actrequired">QuantityPrompt</span><input type=" ...
How do I change the appearance of my product references?
With v8 you can now change the appearance in the layout itself. Click on the 'Ref:' in the preview and edit the code to suite your need. You can also Go to Design | Text and use the 'Go To' button to locate Phase -1, ID 65. You will see a line that reads 'Ref: %s' '%s' will be replaced by whatev ...
How can I replace the 'quantity' text field on the product pages with a drop-down list for selecting quantity?
On the Design Tab, click on the 'Quantity:' text and look in the 'Layout Code' view (below Preview), you will see this bit of text highlighted "QuantityPrompt" followed by <input type="text" name="Q_<actinic:variable name="ProductReference" />" size="4" value="<actinic:variable name= ...
How do I lay my products out in columns on the page?
v8 and higher Select 'Settings | Site Settings | Layout', scroll down to 'Products', against 'Column Count For Products' enter the number of columns you require. Click on 'Apply' to see the changes reflect in the preview.
With my products laid out in columns how can I get a fragment at the top of the page to span across the columns?
If you want your pages to look like: where the fragment at the top of the page spans across the 2-column product layout then do the following: on the 'Design' tab click on the area surrounding the products on the 'Preview Pane' ideally, you are trying to get the 'Product List' layout to displa ...
Can I change the text displayed for my price breaks?
When using quantity based discounts they display as in the following example: To edit the layout that generates the price breaks: on the 'Design' tab, highlight a product with quantity price breaks on the 'Content Tree' click on one of the price break lines in the preview pane to load the layo ...
How can I hide the quantity box when the maximum quantity orderable for a particular product is set to 1?
This can be done by adding a condition to existing 'block if' statements. go to the 'Design' menu and select 'Library' on the 'Layouts' tab, expand the 'Products' group (click on the '+')Do the following for each product layout used on your site: double-click on the product layout to edit it s ...
How do I create an email-a-friend link?
Put the following in your overall layout just above the </head> line: <script type="text/javascript"> function testkey(ev){ return ((ev.which ? ev.which : ev.keyCode) != '13'); } function tellfriend(anc, pname){ var friend = document.getElementById('tell-' + anc); var t ...
I've added a <br/> tag to my short description but can I stop the HTML tag from showing in the cart?
In your Product Details, put " - " (space dash space) into the short description where you want these breaks to appear. In your Product Layout(s) replace: <Actinic:Variable Name="ProductName" /> with: <actinic:block php="true">echo str_replace(' - ', '<br/>', '<Actinic:V ...
I have set my products to layout out in three columns, how can I ensure that they are of equal width?
To get your columns to display equally you need to: edit your product list layout in the 'Design menu | Library | Layouts tab | Product Lists group' (to find out which one your site is using go to 'Settings menu | Site Options | Layouts tab | Products group) edit the 'List Layout Settings' cl ...
How can I set up a product where the price is on application?
Set up your product with £0.00 price. This will stop the price prompt from displaying on the website. Also make sure that the product is excluded from shipping costs ('Details' panel of the product details) so that they are not charged for shipping for getting the quote. Add a component ...
How can I change my currency symbol from $ to US$?
Close Actinic. Browse to your site folder and locate the 'ActinicCatalog.mdb' file. Take a backup of the file and then open it using MS Access. Open the 'currencies' table. Change the 'SCURRENCY' field for the 'US Dollars' row (usually row 2) to US$. Close the database. Open Actinic. Go ...
Can I automatically resize my product images?
This is a handy PHP expression that will dynamically rescale your product images and display them in their new size. This resizing happens on the desktop PC, and the new files will be uploaded to the store with the other image files. The names of the new image files will all start with 't_'. I ...
How do I allow a customer to still order a product that is out of stock?
It could be that you would like your customers to still be able to place an order even when the 'Out of Stock' message is displayed to customers. In order to this, you need to edit the condition that controls whether the add to cart button is shown or not. To do this Go to 'Design | Library | C ...
I want to display only the first 10 words from the full description
It is possible to include a PHP statement which only displays the first 10 words of the full description in the store pages. This is useful if you are displaying a compact version of the product, and don't want the full description to appear. Simply click on the product description (in the 'Des ...
Can I automatically calculate the savings based on the RRP?
This technique will calculate a saving on prices based on the value of 'RRP' – a custom variable that you will need to create. It will display as follows within your product layouts. RRP: £10 – you save 8% To do this: Create a new variable called 'RRP' (Design | Library | Vari ...
How can I show the minimum order quantity by default in the quantity field instead of just '1'?
To show the 'Minimum Quantity' that is set on the 'Details' tab of your product, you need to search for 'DefaultQuantity' in your product layout(s), and you should see something like: Replace the 'DefaultQuantity' variable with 'MinQuantityOrderable'. Here is the code for that variable to copy ...