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Hello. We don't use the shopsite pages we use our own links. Is it
possible to somehow 'force feed' a default quantity value in a link? I have
a special that requires a QTY of 9 to save X amount. The discount is
already set up but I would like to have the quantity automatically fed in as
the value 9 when they click on the link.
Here is a normal link to add the product to the shopping cart:
http://www.mysitename.com/cgi-mybinname ... rename&dbn
ame=products&itemnum=123&function=add

Here was an attempt I made to feed in QTY = 9 when adding it to the shopping
cart:
http://www.mysitename.com/cgi-mybinname ... rename&dbn
ame=products&itemnum=123&function=add&qnty=9

Is there any way of finding out what name value pairs shopsite will accept
in its order.cgi links??
Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Thank you.

In ShopSite v5 the ability to pass a quantity into the cart from the store pages
was added. In the ShopSite product templates this is done by displaying a text
box to the shopper for them to enter a quantity. Collecting this extra
subjective information requires the use of an HTML form rather than just a
simple href link.

So the short answer is "yes"...

.... if you create a custom product template, and rather than use a text field
for the Quantity variable in the form, hardcode that variable in a hidden field
to whatever value you want, like 9.

Here is an example of how you would do the order button section of your custom
product template to accomplish this:

<FORM action="[-- SHOPPING_CART_URL --]" method=post>
<input type=hidden name="[-- PRODUCT.RecordNumber --] :qnty" value="9" >
<input type=hidden name=storeid value=[-- STORE_ID --]>
<input type=hidden name=dbname value=products>
<input type=hidden name=function value=add>
<input type=hidden name=itemnum value=[-- PRODUCT.RecordNumber --] >
<input type=submit value="[Add to Cart]">
<input type=submit name=checkout value="[View Cart]">
</FORM>

To get graphic submit buttons instead of the ugly grey ones that the browser
makes when the submit buttons are text, do something like this:

<input type=image src="media/add_to_cart.gif" border=0 name="Add to Cart"
alt="Add to Cart">
<input type=image src="media/view_cart.gif" border=0 name="View Cart" alt="View
Cart">

-Loren



Tom Kordik wrote:

Hello. We don't use the shopsite pages we use our own links. Is it
possible to somehow 'force feed' a default quantity value in a link? I have
a special that requires a QTY of 9 to save X amount. The discount is
already set up but I would like to have the quantity automatically fed in as
the value 9 when they click on the link.
Here is a normal link to add the product to the shopping cart:
http://www.mysitename.com/cgi-mybinname ... rename&dbn
ame=products&itemnum=123&function=add

Here was an attempt I made to feed in QTY = 9 when adding it to the shopping
cart:
http://www.mysitename.com/cgi-mybinname ... rename&dbn
ame=products&itemnum=123&function=add&qnty=9

Is there any way of finding out what name value pairs shopsite will accept
in its order.cgi links??
Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Thank you.