Re: [mv] V3.12: Continue Shopping Button - Javascript does notalways work

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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I've seen this on the list many times.  One has to be really clear about
where they want to send the user when they click "continue shopping."  For
instance, what if they got to the cart from the checkout page - is checkout
where they should go back to?  What if , since they last placed an item in
their cart, they have viewed some news, or help, or done some configuring
of their account...now where do you send them with "Continue Shopping" that
will seem relevant?

One thing you can do is have "Continue Shopping" essentially repeat the
last search, redisplaying the list of items they were looking at, just
before the bought the most recent item.  You can do this with the search
cache (see the docs), though this has some special server requirements if I
remember correctly, or you can capture the value of mv_searchspec in a
scratch variable and use it in a [scan...] tag.

- Ed L.

>******    message to minivend-users from "Kayo Liles" <kayo@mediafuze.com>
>******
>
>Hello.
>In the past, someone asked on this list how a customer can press the
>Continue Shopping button on the shopping basket page to go back to the
>previous page, and someone else suggested to use javascript. Something like:
>
><input type="button" onClick="javascript:history.go(-1)" value="Continue
>Shopping">
>
>This was because [last-page] does not work if the last page was a "process"
>page.
>
>The javascript works wonderfully if the customer wants to go right back to
>the previous page. When the customer recalculates the order in the basket
>page twice, however, (s)he must press the Continue Shopping button three
>times before (s)he can go back to the previous search result page because
>this javascript does the same thing as the Back button on a browser.
>
>Does anyone have a good solution for the Continue Shopping button?
>Thanks!
>
>Kayo
>
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