notify page template of product added to cart

Posted on 25/03/2009 13:14:47

Hi!

Is there a way to notify my page template that a product has been added to my cart?

I'd like to use a yellow-fade technique, or something simmilar, to tell the customer that a product has indeed been placed in the cart.

I tried adding a querystring to the buy-link, but it is stripped before returning to the page.

Any ideas?

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Posted on 25/03/2009 14:03:04

The problem is the redirect ability, otherwise you could simply use the CartLineAdded notification to set a tag in PageView.TemplatePage. So use the notification to set at session value, and then use a PageTemplateExtender to measure that session value, and when toe proper conditions are fulfilled, generate a tag using the SetTag method of the TemplateV2.Template object.

Btw. it's good practice to set the tag to an empty value when the conditions are not fulfilled. That way the tag shows in the list then you use DwTemplateTags:

if (condition){

Template.SetTag("MyTag", "1");

}else{

Template.SetTag("MyTag", "");

}

Posted on 26/03/2009 15:23:59

Does that mean it has to be a custom solution?

I put the yellow-fade trigger on the onclick event of the buy link. It kinda gave the same effect, but of course before the redirect.

Posted on 27/03/2009 11:00:00

Yes, it would be a custom solution.

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