Re: OK, here goes...

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11756
interpreted = N
texte = Grant Hulbert wrote:> >There is one concern that I have that > >has been an ongoing issue since day one, and that is that if a visitor, > >for whatever reason, returns to the home page via the back button > >after they have been assigned a cart, they are then given a new one and > >any products in their shopping basket are effectively erased. > > Easily solved with suffix mapping -- check out www.club-mac.com and you'll notice that you can back all the way up to the home page and retain the same cart. > > The old-style way of putting an Enter Store hyperlink was for WebCatalog 1.6.1 because it didn't know how to handle suffix mapping. Just set .HTML to run through WebCatalog, and put cart=[cart] stuff into the links on your home page (no explicit $NewCart command), and you'll have the right cart# from the beginning.You mean, just set all .HTML files to be processed by WebCat, and then on my home page, change all the links that look like this:NAVAL HISTORY:to this:NAVAL HISTORY:Then they will get a cart as soon as the home page loads, which will stay with them no matter how they get back to the home page, right? -- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster************************************************************** * AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 469-2567 * * 126 Jerome Avenue * FAX: (908) 469-5823 * * South Bound Brook, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com * * 08880-1111 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com * ************************************************************** Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. RE: OK, here goes... (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. RE: OK, here goes... (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  3. Re: OK, here goes... (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  4. RE: OK, here goes... (Marc Eagle 1997)
  5. Re: OK, here goes... (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  6. Re: OK, here goes... (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  7. RE: OK, here goes... (Marc Eagle 1997)
  8. Re: OK, here goes... (John Hill 1997)
  9. Re: OK, here goes... (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  10. Re: OK, here goes... (Gil Poulsen 1997)
  11. Re: OK, here goes... (Gil Poulsen 1997)
  12. OK, here goes... (Gil Poulsen 1997)
Grant Hulbert wrote:> >There is one concern that I have that > >has been an ongoing issue since day one, and that is that if a visitor, > >for whatever reason, returns to the home page via the back button > >after they have been assigned a cart, they are then given a new one and > >any products in their shopping basket are effectively erased. > > Easily solved with suffix mapping -- check out www.club-mac.com and you'll notice that you can back all the way up to the home page and retain the same cart. > > The old-style way of putting an Enter Store hyperlink was for WebCatalog 1.6.1 because it didn't know how to handle suffix mapping. Just set .HTML to run through WebCatalog, and put cart=[cart] stuff into the links on your home page (no explicit $NewCart command), and you'll have the right cart# from the beginning.You mean, just set all .HTML files to be processed by WebCat, and then on my home page, change all the links that look like this:NAVAL HISTORY:to this:[cart]>NAVAL HISTORY:Then they will get a cart as soon as the home page loads, which will stay with them no matter how they get back to the home page, right? -- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster************************************************************** * AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 469-2567 * * 126 Jerome Avenue * FAX: (908) 469-5823 * * South Bound Brook, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com * * 08880-1111 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com * ************************************************************** Gil Poulsen

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