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Our experience with Netobject Fusion is a bit limited! If you
need general help with using this editor then there is a good support
site at:
Below are some notes we've written that specifically
relate to using Netobjects with the cart. They also
serve as an introduction but really you should look
at the rest of the documentation on this site too. That's
particularly true when it comes to setting up Shipping
or Tax calculations. Anyway...
When you select the Mal's-E store engine you should
see a screen like this. If you haven't got an account
already then you can use the button on that page to
come to this site and do so.
After sign-up you will receive a Welcome e-mail.
Nothing in that e-mail trivial! It contains important
information about your account, how the service
works and how to use it. We recommend very strongly that
you read every single word of it. It also has your username
and password which you can enter into Netobjects.
To be honest we can't think of any reason why you would
ever need to enter your password into Netobjects but
there you go, the box is there....
Customizing netobjects
Assuming you know how to use Netobjects (don't ask
me!) you will find that you soon have a perfectly working
catalog with Buy Now buttons linking to your shopping
cart account here. Basically it works very well straight
out of the box provided you have a recently setup account.
That's because it creates links to ww6.aitsafe.com which is only one of my servers. If you have an account
which has been setup on a different server you will
want to edit this. You may also want to edit some of
the other values in the buttons.
In Netobjects you need to go to the Store page
in the E-commerce Catalog Properties Editor.
If you click on the button Customize URLs... button you will see:
The text in the box is:
action.value=http://ww6.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm
action.method=get
action.target=malse
parameter.input.hidden.userid=<%store.userName%>
parameter.input.hidden.product[]=<%product.name%>
parameter.input.hidden.price=<%product.price%>
parameter.input.hidden.currency=<%store.currencyCode%>
parameter.input.hidden.tax=<%product.salesTax%>
parameter.input.hidden.shipping=<%product.shippingCost%>
parameter.input.text.qty=1
label.qty=Quantity
includes.js.file1=formHandler.js
We've highlighted the hostname which you may need to change. It says in your Welcome
e-mail which server you have been setup on.
Now, we would recommend you consider editing the above
lot down to:
action.value=http://ww6.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm
action.method=post
action.target=malse
parameter.input.hidden.userid=<%store.userName%>
parameter.input.hidden.product=<%product.name%>
parameter.input.hidden.price=<%product.price%>
parameter.input.text.qty=1
label.qty=Quantity
includes.js.file1=formHandler.js
which creates a basic Buy Now button which won't conflict
with any other options in the cart setup.
Stock codes SKU
If you want to push the SKU/Stock code into the begining
product's description in the cart then replace:
parameter.input.hidden.product=<%product.name%>
with:
parameter.input.hidden.product[0]=<%product.sku%>
parameter.input.hidden.product[1]=<%product.name%>
If you want to post in a tax value with each product
then you will need to add back in the line:
parameter.input.hidden.tax=<%product.salesTax%>
The cart has a number of mechanisms for doing shipping
calculations many of which require no information at
all. For example if shipping is based on the number
of items in the cart. But for those situations where
shipping needs to be on a per product basis then it
will always be based on the value in the field named units. For example if you use the Weight value from Netobjects then you would add (calculate
using option 3, 5 or 7 in the cart setup):
parameter.input.hidden.units=<%product.weight%>
or if you want to use the Shipping Cost value
from Netobjects (option 3 shipping in the cart setup
with the rate per units set 1):
parameter.input.hidden.units=<%product.shippingCost%>
You will see that the default button created by Netobjects
posts in shipping in a field named shipping but
that's really wrong. The shipping field is rarely used
and is for where you are posting in the total cost of
shipping for the whole order, not the cost for just
that particular product. It's not an uncommon mistake,
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