StoreFront 5.0 Manual - StoreFront Support - LaGarde, Inc.
StoreFront 5.0 Manual - StoreFront Support - LaGarde, Inc.
StoreFront 5.0 Manual - StoreFront Support - LaGarde, Inc.
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<strong>StoreFront</strong> <strong>5.0</strong><br />
6. Use FrontPage to open the page you will be adding the Product Bot to. Place your<br />
cursor where you wish to insert the product bot.<br />
7. After you have selected the options and information you would like to add to the page<br />
along with the Product Bot, click Add to Page. This will create the product bot.<br />
8. Save the new Product Page to your web. IMPORTANT: You MUST save the page with<br />
a .asp file extension. THE PRODUCT PAGE WILL NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS<br />
NAMED AS AN ASP PAGE.<br />
9. If the page you added the Product Bot to is an existing HTML page, rename it to .asp.<br />
You can do this by right-clicking the file, selecting Rename, then changing the htm or<br />
html extension to .asp.<br />
You can test a Product Page by viewing it in a browser independent of FrontPage. The<br />
“Preview in Browser” feature or the Preview Tab of FrontPage will not reliably display product<br />
pages. You must finish the steps described under Path Configuration, page 56, and Database<br />
Connectivity Configuration, page 43, before you will be able to test any Product Pages.<br />
DESIGN-TIME AND RUN-TIME PRODUCT BOTS<br />
There are two main types of Product Bots: Design-Time and Run-Time. The characteristic<br />
that distinguishes one from the other is that Design-Time bots and the data elements that are<br />
added to a design-time page are static. They are pulled from the information stored in the<br />
database for a product and written to the page as HTML when the product page is created. If<br />
the information in the database changes, or if the product is removed from the database, no<br />
change will be reflected on the product page. The page will have to be updated manually.<br />
Design-Time pages can be created from any existing HTML web page.<br />
Run-Time bots and the data elements that are added to a run-time page are dynamic. The<br />
information for the product data elements is pulled from the database every time the page is<br />
viewed by a customer. If the information stored in the database changes, this will be reflected<br />
by the Run-Time page. There will never be any need to update a Run-Time page manually,<br />
only to update the information stored in the database.<br />
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