Thanks for the info Chuck;
Sorry about the HTML email, I forgot to disable that when I installed Win
2000. As for why have an empty dept, Doh, I did not think of such a simple
fix to the problem.
Hmm, Twitch... You must drink lots of Jolt.
Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Gartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeTrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 6:27 PM
Subject: RE: [FreeTrade] Empty categories and blank screens
> Look at the code mentioned again. It checks paternity atleast once... if
a
> department or subdept is no ones parent don't wrap it in a link.
>
> Why would you have an empty dept anyway? If you don't have anything to
put
> in a department don't add it till you do.
>
> And quit formatting your mail with rtf or html... it makes some of us
> twitch... then again, we twitched when images were added to hyper-text.
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shawn Honeychurch
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:15 PM
> To: FreeTrade
> Subject: Re: [FreeTrade] Empty categories and blank screens
>
>
> Hello Michael;
>
> I have been working with freetrade for about 3 months now and am having a
> great deal of luck getting it working. When i do have a question I look
> through all the code first and then through the mailing list archive, only
> as a last result do I ask for help. I am not a programmer, but am trying
> hard to become one. I have usually found this group to be supportive and
> helpfulI have gone out and purchased Leon's book and use it alot.
>
> I don't know what you mean when you say "You were just given help on how
to
> prevent an empty shopping cart from showing up." Yours is the first
> response I have recieved about this query and not very helpful I might
add.
> The status bar display nothing about what page or screen you are on. And
> the source shows nothing about the missing and/or blank screen. I have
> spent a number of hours looking for the answer to this problem with no
luck.
>
> Shawn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Puglin
> To: FreeTrade
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:46 PM
> Subject: RE: [FreeTrade] Empty categories and blank screens
>
>
> Shawn,
>
> You were just given help on how to prevent an empty shopping cart from
> showing up. You can look at the source (or the status line of your
browser)
> to determine which screen module is being called when you click on a
> department. You should be able to rub those two sticks together to get a
> fire. It seems to me (my opinion only) that you want to be spoon-fed
> everything. You've been working with FreeTrade long enough that you should
> be able to figure this out. This is very basic. Put a message in saying
> "Sorry, no items..."
>
> If you are not a programmer (or don't aspire to be one) you picked the
wrong
> e-commerce solution. FreeTrade is a 'get your hands dirty' solution.
>
> I don't want to discourage you from asking questions. I want to discourage
> you from asking questions before try to solve the problem yourself.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shawn Honeychurch
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:19 PM
> To: FreeTrade
> Subject: [FreeTrade] Empty categories and blank screens
>
>
> Hi;
>
> Does anyone know how to prevent the blank screen that seems to always
> accompany an empty category? I find it very unelegant that ahen a
customer
> views an empty category they are taken to a blank screen. Any way around
> this?
>
> Shawn
>
>
>
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