SS 7 and Mini Cart

[Chris]

Hi,

I'm testing a demo store of shopsite 7...Al's Tools... in preparation
for our upgrade.

I love the new features--the customer registration is better than I'd
hoped for and the additional customization of the shopping cart and
checkout pages is great.

But..I give....I can't seem to get the Mini cart on these store pages, I
checked the box for "Use Mini Cart" under Commerce Setup, but it isn't
appearing on the pages. I looked under page layout and pae contents but
don't see a place to add it. A search of the Help feature didn't give
any Mini Cart results.

What did I miss?

Chris

MLCS

[Jim]

The mini cart code is only available in ShopSite templates that are
using the custom template code not the C coded ones. Try switching your
test store to use the Tab, Rounded, Sidebar or Stainglass theme.

Jim

Chris wrote:

Hi,

I'm testing a demo store of shopsite 7...Al's Tools... in preparation
for our upgrade.

I love the new features--the customer registration is better than I'd
hoped for and the additional customization of the shopping cart and
checkout pages is great.

But..I give....I can't seem to get the Mini cart on these store pages, I
checked the box for "Use Mini Cart" under Commerce Setup, but it isn't
appearing on the pages. I looked under page layout and pae contents but
don't see a place to add it. A search of the Help feature didn't give
any Mini Cart results.

What did I miss?

Chris

MLCS

[Chris]

OK..Next Question....How can I steal the code that generates the mini cart to
use in Order Anywhere pages?

Jim wrote:

The mini cart code is only available in ShopSite templates that are
using the custom template code not the C coded ones. Try switching your
test store to use the Tab, Rounded, Sidebar or Stainglass theme.

Jim

Chris wrote:
Hi,

I'm testing a demo store of shopsite 7...Al's Tools... in preparation
for our upgrade.

I love the new features--the customer registration is better than I'd
hoped for and the additional customization of the shopping cart and
checkout pages is great.

But..I give....I can't seem to get the Mini cart on these store pages, I
checked the box for "Use Mini Cart" under Commerce Setup, but it isn't
appearing on the pages. I looked under page layout and pae contents but
don't see a place to add it. A search of the Help feature didn't give
any Mini Cart results.

What did I miss?

Chris

MLCS

[Jim]

Chris,
There are a number of new features in the Custom templates, the ability
to use include files so that code can be reused from one template in
another is one. Another is the ability to copy ShopSite template files
to your own template directory. The new shopsite templates make great
use of the include functionality.

Go to Merchandizing > Custom Templates > in the Includes section click
on the Copy ShopSite Include and a list of the various include files is
displayed. Select the Minicart.js file and enter a different name and
click Copy to put it in your local directory. You can then edit that
file and see the code that we use. Note that our templates set some
variables in other files to set the small shopping Cart image color and
text color so you will need to either hard code those values or set a
var on your page template that defines them.


Jim


Chris wrote:

OK..Next Question....How can I steal the code that generates the mini cart to
use in Order Anywhere pages?

Jim wrote:


The mini cart code is only available in ShopSite templates that are
using the custom template code not the C coded ones. Try switching your
test store to use the Tab, Rounded, Sidebar or Stainglass theme.

Jim

Chris wrote:

Hi,

I'm testing a demo store of shopsite 7...Al's Tools... in preparation
for our upgrade.

I love the new features--the customer registration is better than I'd
hoped for and the additional customization of the shopping cart and
checkout pages is great.

But..I give....I can't seem to get the Mini cart on these store pages, I
checked the box for "Use Mini Cart" under Commerce Setup, but it isn't
appearing on the pages. I looked under page layout and pae contents but
don't see a place to add it. A search of the Help feature didn't give
any Mini Cart results.

What did I miss?

Chris

MLCS