Mal's e-com action suite

I’m running into problems with this action suite. First, I have made a test shopping page for Mal’s that works perfectly (not too pretty yet, but it’s just for a test).

It’s at http://www.blackpatchgrassfedbeef.com/store.html

Now I want to add a quantity picker. So I created another test page and followed the instructions carefully as found in the manual that comes with the suite. Nothing works. There are a variety of problems, surely some of my making and then there are things that I just don’t understand in the manual, that is, don’t understand why they’re supposed to work.

I created an html box and applied the mal’s form action to it. Then I inserted a quantity field and set the server correctly and and the initial quantity to 1. At that point the manual says “Finally add a standard form button into the text box by selecting the Button Item from the Insert Menu,” which I did.

When I run it, first there’s no default value of 1 in the quantity box but worse, I can’t even get into it to type in a number. Also, the Add To Cart button isn’t active. This might have something to do with layers, which, in this particular instance is also baffling to me. Anyway, there are a lot of variables here, and I just seem to be missing something major, but I don’t know what it is. I’ve tried several of the manual’s example, and am always having the same problem.

I wonder if someone could take a look at this and perhaps discover the problem(s).

I didn’t include this page in the menus, but on the site’s index.html page http://www.blackpatchgrassfedbeef.com there’s a link on the left hand side that says experiment4 that’ll take you to the page.

Thanks,
Martin


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Hi Martin,
Looking at your page code I can see that the ‘AddToCart’ and ‘quantity’ items are layers (divs). These need to be children of the main form item (‘formbox’) so when the user clicks on the ‘Add to cart’ button all of the form data is sent to the Mals cart. The easiest way to do this is to select each in turn and cut them and then paste them into the ‘formbox’ layer - select the item, edit/cut, then double-click the ‘formbox’ item so that the cursor is blinking inside the box and edit/paste.
Alternatively you can create a table structure to hold these items and apply the Mals Buy Form Setup action to this rather than the parent layer.
If you get stuck get in touch with me directly (http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=con) and I’ll put together a sample Freeway file for you that, hopefully, demonstrates the process.
Regards,
Tim.

On 31 Jan 2011, at 11:35, Rice Martin wrote:

I didn’t include this page in the menus, but on the site’s index.html page http://www.blackpatchgrassfedbeef.com there’s a link on the left hand side that says experiment4 that’ll take you to the page.

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The easiest way to do this is to select each in turn and cut them and then paste them into the ‘formbox’ layer

In the past I found just grouping all the form elements was enough to get it to work. This basically creates a new div with all the form elements inside it.


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This page shows the Ebuy form action applied to a table and the E-quantity and E-product variations actions applied within that table.

http://www.deltadesign.co/odds/tartan.html

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That’s really nice. Thanks for posting the link, David.

Martin

On Jan 31, 2011, at 7:19 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

This page shows the Ebuy form action applied to a table and the E-quantity and E-product variations actions applied within that table.

http://www.deltadesign.co/odds/tartan.html

David


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