RE: [mv] V3-14: Simple products.asc question

[Michael James <mwjames@ak.planet.gen.nz>]

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Hi Pete,

Comments below

Cheers
Michael

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Pete Holsberg [SMTP:pjh@mccc.edu]
Sent:	Friday, 11 February, 2000 6:13 AM
To:	'minivend-users@minivend.com'
Subject:	RE: [mv] V3-14: Simple products.asc question

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Michael James wrote:

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> Hi Pete,
>
> The index.html page displays specials which are
> referenced by product number in the rand.html files.

How do you know that?
I read it somewhere in the documentation. The rand.html files are in the 
/pages directory. I view the documentation online line using the frames 
option so the table of contents is in the left frame. If I am looking for a 
particular piece of code I use the find function in the browser to search.

> Unless you update these pages with current product codes
> it will not be able to find then. What is being displayed
> on the page is the standard text that is part of the
> layout and an image location.

Where is the layout defined?
The layout for index.html is in the page itself. Basically you can 
configure it any way you like just like html. All it is displaying is 
selected data and images from the products.asc file. In my curent page I 
have 2 layout optins depending on whethetr there is an imag available or 
not.

> Try a search or browse for your products. If the same
> thing occurs and there are no products then it may be
> that products.asc has been uploaded in the wrong format.
> I.e binary when it should be ascii

It finds them.

Good so it looks like you only need to get the correct product numbers in 
the rand.html files

Re the dollar sign in the products.asc file. I edit my products.asc file in 
microsoft access then export it to a tab delimited file. For some reason I 
set the price field as currency in access so when I export I get the $ sign 
in products.asc. It does not seems to affect anything.


Thanks,
pete

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