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We often change an audiobook offering to "out-of-publication" with a $0
price and do not want the [Add to Cart] text button to show up.

Even though the Text radio button is not checked, in the [Add to Cart]
Button Customization choices, the [Add to Cart] still shows up and we
occasionally have someone ordering a $0, out-of-publication audiobook.

I manage all our offerings on my desktop with MS Access. What, if anything
should I have in the Add to Cart Button field. Just having the field blank
doesn't eliminate the [Add to Cart] text button.
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Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com

Hello Larry,

I do remove the [ ] Display price check box and set the Add to cart button
to (o) Text with an empty field, the ( ) Image is set to 'none'. Voilà: no
add to cart button, no price, no hassle.

Regards,

Niko

"Larry Bohen" <lbohen@audiobooksonline.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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We often change an audiobook offering to "out-of-publication" with a $0
price and do not want the [Add to Cart] text button to show up.

Even though the Text radio button is not checked, in the [Add to Cart]
Button Customization choices, the [Add to Cart] still shows up and we
occasionally have someone ordering a $0, out-of-publication audiobook.

I manage all our offerings on my desktop with MS Access. What, if anything
should I have in the Add to Cart Button field. Just having the field blank
doesn't eliminate the [Add to Cart] text button.
--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com

I believe to do it your way, you have to go to the Back Office, find the
specific product and manually erase the [Add to Cart] text.

Ideally, I'd like to do this in my MS Access product db. ShopSite evidently
isn't "smart" enough to recognize, when I upload a product record, that I
have deleted the [Add to Cart] text in its Access field. I.E. The [Add to
Cart] text is still there in our Web store.

I'd like to be able to delete the [Add to Cart] text from within the Access
db.

--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com
"Nikolaus Gruchot" <gruchot@watersafety.net> wrote in message
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Hello Larry,

I do remove the [ ] Display price check box and set the Add to cart button
to (o) Text with an empty field, the ( ) Image is set to 'none'. Voilà:
no
add to cart button, no price, no hassle.

Regards,

Niko

"Larry Bohen" <lbohen@audiobooksonline.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:cfqe96$ag1$1@eval.shopsite.com...
We often change an audiobook offering to "out-of-publication" with a $0
price and do not want the [Add to Cart] text button to show up.

Even though the Text radio button is not checked, in the [Add to Cart]
Button Customization choices, the [Add to Cart] still shows up and we
occasionally have someone ordering a $0, out-of-publication audiobook.

I manage all our offerings on my desktop with MS Access. What, if
anything
should I have in the Add to Cart Button field. Just having the field
blank
doesn't eliminate the [Add to Cart] text button.
--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com

Larry:

Read the documentation for the Add to Cart Button field in the
upload/download docs at:
http://www.shopsite.com/help/7.0/en-US/ ... loadFields

If this field is left blank on upload, the store defaults for this field
(configured in Preferences -> Store Text -> Store Pages) will be used.
So instead of just nothing in that field, try two doublequotes or maybe
<empty>.

-Loren


Larry Bohen wrote:

I believe to do it your way, you have to go to the Back Office, find the
specific product and manually erase the [Add to Cart] text.

Ideally, I'd like to do this in my MS Access product db. ShopSite evidently
isn't "smart" enough to recognize, when I upload a product record, that I
have deleted the [Add to Cart] text in its Access field. I.E. The [Add to
Cart] text is still there in our Web store.

I'd like to be able to delete the [Add to Cart] text from within the Access
db.

Loren; I've read the link you mention. I've also tried <empty> and two
double quotes (""""), but end up having that text in the store field which
when clicked on, adds the product to the order.

Currently there is text in the [Add to Cart / Order] field (Preferences ->
Store Text -> Store Pages) which is the default text. If I have this default
field blank, I believe any product (in my Access db) with a blank [Add to
Cart] field will have a blank in the ShopSite store field. Correct?

--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com

"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cfr92i$qko$1@eval.shopsite.com...

Larry:

Read the documentation for the Add to Cart Button field in the
upload/download docs at:

http://www.shopsite.com/help/7.0/en-US/ ... loadFields

If this field is left blank on upload, the store defaults for this field
(configured in Preferences -> Store Text -> Store Pages) will be used.
So instead of just nothing in that field, try two doublequotes or maybe
empty>.

-Loren


Larry Bohen wrote:
I believe to do it your way, you have to go to the Back Office, find the
specific product and manually erase the [Add to Cart] text.

Ideally, I'd like to do this in my MS Access product db. ShopSite
evidently
isn't "smart" enough to recognize, when I upload a product record, that
I
have deleted the [Add to Cart] text in its Access field. I.E. The [Add
to
Cart] text is still there in our Web store.

I'd like to be able to delete the [Add to Cart] text from within the
Access
db.

Why not create a custom template that you use for out-of-publication
items that doesn't display the price or add to cart buttons?

You could also modify your normal template to check for some text in one
of the product fields and if that text is present you just don't output
the add to cart button?

Jim

Larry Bohen wrote:

We often change an audiobook offering to "out-of-publication" with a $0
price and do not want the [Add to Cart] text button to show up.

Even though the Text radio button is not checked, in the [Add to Cart]
Button Customization choices, the [Add to Cart] still shows up and we
occasionally have someone ordering a $0, out-of-publication audiobook.

I manage all our offerings on my desktop with MS Access. What, if anything
should I have in the Add to Cart Button field. Just having the field blank
doesn't eliminate the [Add to Cart] text button.

Hi Larry,

I run into "out of stock" and or "discontinued" situations and have
found a solution which works really slick.

I simply use the [Add to Cart] text field and place html comment tags
<!-- --> in it. Doing so does not remove the link from the html page
shopsite generates but instead simply hides it from the visitor.

In fact, here is what I do with all of my products... In the [Add to
Cart] text field I place html image code which looks like this:
<img src="http://www.specialmart.com/store/media/add_to_cart.gif"
width=93 height=28 hspace=0 vspace=0 border=0 align=left>
This produces the same type of effect as selecting an image from the
images drop down list.

When I have an item that I do not want to have the add to cart button
showing, I'll change the [Add to Cart] text field in my database for
that item to simply be the html comment tags <!-- -->.

I upload the data to update the shopsite database and publish.

By always using the [Add to Cart] text field rather than selecting an
image from the drop down list, when this item becomes available again
all I have to do is change the [Add to Cart] text field back to the <img
src="http://......./add_to_cart.gif"> and publish.

To see how this works using the shopsite system...
select one product...
click on Power Edit...
under Layout, select the Add to Cart Button...
click Proceed...
click the Text radio button...
in the text field type:
<!-- this is my hidden add to cart button -->
click Save Changes...
now publish and go look at the page the product is on.

You will notice that it has nothing to click on to add to the cart.

However if you view the source of the page you see the comment in the
link like this:
<a
href="http://www.yourStore.com/bla/bla/&dbname=products&itemnum=0&function=add"><!--
this is my hidden add to cart button --></a>
The text is there but to the shopper... it does not show as a link.

Hope this helps
Keith



Larry Bohen wrote:

We often change an audiobook offering to "out-of-publication" with a $0
price and do not want the [Add to Cart] text button to show up.

Even though the Text radio button is not checked, in the [Add to Cart]
Button Customization choices, the [Add to Cart] still shows up and we
occasionally have someone ordering a $0, out-of-publication audiobook.

I manage all our offerings on my desktop with MS Access. What, if anything
should I have in the Add to Cart Button field. Just having the field blank
doesn't eliminate the [Add to Cart] text button.