Link to a Product or Category


Link to a Product or Category

Using the Product ID and/or Category ID parameters, you can direct a user to a specific product or category within the buyer interface experience.​

2.0 OrderCloud
To link to a link to a product in 2.0 follow these steps:
  1. On the site navigate to the product you would like to link to
  2. Once on the desired product, navigate to the URL bar in your browser and copy that URL
  3. Create an anchor tag  ex. <a href=”product URL goes here”>text<a/>
  4. This Anchor tag can be placed in a custom message, products description panel or anywhere else on your sites theme.
To link to a category follow the same steps above only difference is you will want to navigate to the Category instead of a product to retrieve that categories URL from the browsers address bar.

Legacy (1.0) Application Only

To set the Interop ID for a category, complete the following:
  1. Logon to your administrative interface.
  2. Click the "Buyers" tab in the top navigation tab.
  3. Select a company from the list.
  4. Click the "Categories" tab.
  5. Select your category from the list.
  6. Enter a value in the Interop ID field.  This value may be any combination of letters and numbers.  It also must be unique. No two categories associated with your administrative environment may be the same.
  7. Click the "Save" button. 
To set the Interop ID for a product, complete the following:
  1. Logon to your administrative interface.
  2. Click the "Products" tab in the top navigation tab and locate your product.
  3. Enter a value in the Interop ID field.  This value may be any combination of letters and numbers.  It also must be unique. No two products associated with your administrative environment may be the same.
  4. Click the "Save" button.
After you have set up an Interop ID for your category and/or product, use these to create a url directing a user to that category or product.  This url can be placed within a custom message or as part of a custom theme.

To link to a product, the url will look like this:
/ui/themelink.hcf?productid=[InteropID]

To link to a category, the url will look like this:
/ui/themelink.hcf?catid=[InteropID]

To link to a product within a specific category, the url will look like this:
/ui/themelink.hcf?productid=[InteropID]&catid=[InteropID]

NOTE: The examples above use relative URLs so that the link will work between Four51 environments (ex: Production, Test).
 

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