Hi
i have a little problem, where the answer is probably very near, but i don’t see it.
I have a webshop, and the articles show up in a new window.
but, when people put the items in the cart ( mals) and go on shopping, i want them to go back to the site, and not the ‘linked’ page…
i’m to long working, ( to many hours) i don’t see it anymore…
please someone, be my flashlight on how i was supposed to do it, so i let the customers, return to the major pages and not the littel popedup pages…
I’m pretty sure that the page they go back to is always the same as
the page they came from, it can’t be changed. This may not be the case
in the more advanced version of the Action from Tim Plumb.
Regards,
Joe
On 19 Mar 2009, at 23:40, eus wrote:
Hi
i have a little problem, where the answer is probably very near, but
i don’t see it.
I have a webshop, and the articles show up in a new window.
but, when people put the items in the cart ( mals) and go on
shopping, i want them to go back to the site, and not the ‘linked’
page…
i’m to long working, ( to many hours) i don’t see it anymore…
please someone, be my flashlight on how i was supposed to do it, so
i let the customers, return to the major pages and not the littel
popedup pages…
Hi Joe, I do work with Tim’s wonderfull Actions! that is why i find myself such an idiot for not finding the answer
and even now, when i did have enough sleep ( i think) i can’t find it…
some time’s i realy hate myself for not paying more attention at school, when we were having english…
Thanks for your answer!
Eugenie
Hi Eugenie
As I recall there is a field in the action pallet to specify the continue
shopping URL.
Otherwise there is a default return field in the Mal’s cart setup in the
account setting at Mals itself.
Regards
Brian
eus said recently:
Hi Joe, I do work with Tim’s wonderfull Actions! that is why i find myself
such an idiot for not finding the answer
and even now, when i did have enough sleep ( i think) i can’t find it…
some time’s i realy hate myself for not paying more attention at school, when
we were having english…
Thanks for your answer!
Eugenie
I think what Eugenie is saying is that when viewing products a new window opens and after ‘adding to cart’ she is sent back to the new window rather than the main page.
I’ve been looking at this this morning and it’s starting to make my head hurt!
You should be able to;
name the main page with a block of JavaScript;
window.name = “mywindow”;
set the Mals button to target mywindow to open the Mals store in the parent
window
extend the buy button with an onclick event to close the (popped up) window;
onclick - window.close();
But, I can’t get this to work. Seems OK in Safari but not anywhere else.
The idea is that when the buy button is pressed the cart opens up in the main
window and the popup is closed. When the user returns to the site they are
returned back to the main window again.
Regards,
Tim.
Although you can specify a different return page using my Mals actions Eugenie
wants to target a specific window (the main one rather than then pop-up).
Unfortunately I can’t think of a simple solution to do this that doesn’t
require pulling the page apart.
Regards,
Tim.
I’m pretty sure that the page they go back to is always the same as
the page they came from, it can’t be changed. This may not be the case
in the more advanced version of the Action from Tim Plumb.
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You could try making a function and calling it. That function would
have two actions in it:
self.window.opener.location.href = 'path to page you want the main
window to show';
self.window.close();
I am pulling this out of memory from ten years ago – one of the first
sites I worked on had this media viewer thing that worked this way –
but it should work okay.
Walter
On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:36 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Although you can specify a different return page using my Mals
actions Eugenie
wants to target a specific window (the main one rather than then pop-
up).
Unfortunately I can’t think of a simple solution to do this that
doesn’t
require pulling the page apart.
Regards,
Tim.
i have to think this one over. because i keep reading this over and over again, and i don’t understand it.
my fault, i know!
but it’s over my head…
somehow, it seems so difficult for a simple thing, get me out of the window, put me back on track LOL, but ofcourse its not.
i put my boys in bed and think it over…
thanks everybody for the help so far.
My thoughts would be - why show your product in a pop up window in the first place. If you dont use a pop up you dont have the problem. By all means have a picture popup for a bigger view of the product but keep the ‘buy’ button on the main page.
Yes I concur and follow the same practice. Design out the problem rather
than have it exist in the first place.
all the best
Brian
DeltaDave said recently:
My thoughts would be - why show your product in a pop up window in the first
place. If you dont use a pop up you dont have the problem. By all means have a
picture popup for a bigger view of the product but keep the ‘buy’ button on
the main page.
hi guy’s, this i very sweet of you all, and i must confess i was there to. It’s great if you have just one article!
but the problem is, when you have more than one.
Lets say, you have a lipstick ( i know, i know… but i’m a girl…)
you have 10 colors, and your customer want’s to see them all… and hopefully buy at least 5 colors…
the products are shown in all availlable colors! and then you choose and hopefully buy.
The problem is, that most people who buy the stuff get nervous, when they dont see the product together with the cart.
( they forget what color they want…etc… it’s not my choise, but my clients… i would do it just like you said believe me! )
I did use the option Dave and Brian mentioned, in other shops ! but when it comes to more options…i still have a problem.
perhaps its an option to rebuild it all with a lightbox or smaller pop-up without the cart,
other problem is, that the customers, dont want to scroll to much, don’t understand website’s to much, anyway… don’t care about computers at all ( and no, it’s not me who is saying it, its my client again and she did do her marketing with her customers)
but… as for tonight… thank you al so very much!
have a wonderfull weekend.
Eugenie
Following Debbie Q’s suggestion about adding a close button to the
header bar in the Mals cart I’ve created a simple sample using the
test store at FreewayActions.com.
Here’s how it works;
The user clicks the image for the product and the pop-up window opens
The user clicks the buy button
This opens the Mals cart in the same (pop-up) window.
The user can use the newly added "close window’ button to close
this window and return to your online store (which is in the main
window still).
Right at the bottom of this window is a input field that you can
add your button HTML to. Mine was this but feel free to change it to
suit your site etc; </
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Here’s a quick example of the close box shown in the header of the cart;
<Shopping cart
Hopefully this should do the trick for you if you are determined to
use a pop-up for the buy buttons.
Regards,
Tim.
On 20 Mar 2009, at 17:57, eus wrote:
hi guy’s, this i very sweet of you all, and i must confess i was
there to. It’s great if you have just one article!
but the problem is, when you have more than one.
Lets say, you have a lipstick ( i know, i know… but i’m a girl…)
you have 10 colors, and your customer want’s to see them all… and
hopefully buy at least 5 colors…
the products are shown in all availlable colors! and then you choose
and hopefully buy.
The problem is, that most people who buy the stuff get nervous, when
they dont see the product together with the cart.
( they forget what color they want…etc… it’s not my choise, but my
clients… i would do it just like you said believe me! )
I did use the option Dave and Brian mentioned, in other shops ! but
when it comes to more options…i still have a problem.
perhaps its an option to rebuild it all with a lightbox or smaller
pop-up without the cart,
other problem is, that the customers, dont want to scroll to much,
don’t understand website’s to much, anyway… don’t care about
computers at all ( and no, it’s not me who is saying it, its my
client again and she did do her marketing with her customers)
but… as for tonight… thank you al so very much!
have a wonderfull weekend.
Eugenie
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dear Tim,
i realy thank you so much for your time and trouble. I will try it out tomorrow!! finishing all my other ( mum)work left me with a splitting lip and headache… and i want to do it right!
thank you so very much!
Seems OK in Safari but not anywhere else.
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