[ic] Help with [modifier-name ...] pls

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Thu May 10 12:05:09 2001


At 11:39 AM 05/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi, all:
>
>I have a form that looks like this:
>
><FORM ACTION="[process-target]" METHOD=POST>
><INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_todo"     VALUE="refresh">
><INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_nextpage" VALUE="profile3">
>  ...
><INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="mv_order_item" VALUE="3007">
>  ...
><INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="mv_order_item" VALUE="3250">
>  ... (etc ... there are up to nine items on a page)
>
><INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Continue to Next Page &gt;&gt;">
></FORM>
>
>Which orders an item and sends the user on to the next page in the
>profile (this is successful). What I am trying to add is:
>
><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="[modifier-name pagetitle]">

[modifier-name] only works within an [item-list][/item-list] construct - it 
is not apparent from your message that you are using it that way.  It also 
may not be the modifier tag that you want - check here for more info:
http://developer2.akopia.com/cgi-bin/ic/dev/ictags_44.html

- Ed L.





>so that I can have the user set the modifiers as s/he goes along.
>There is one for each item. This does not work ... does not show
>up on the basket page and is not even in the session when I go
>through the /etc/session file. In fact, the source file shows the
>tag which tells me it isn't even being parsed even though I copied
>it exactly from the documentation. (Before you ask, the modifier
>is set up in catalog.cfg and works correctly when saved on the
>basket page as [item-modifier pagetitle].)
>
>What am I doing wrong and is there a solution to this? What I need
>to do is tag each item ordered with a text identifier that the user
>types in BEFORE they get to the basket.
>
>We are currently using mv4.04a, plan to upgrade to ic4.6 shortly.
>
>Thanks!!!
>
>    -- Loy
>
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