New Ecommerce Legislation

[Tomgard]

The new Federal Hazardous Substances Act requires that ecommerce sites selling products for children include a cautionary statement on those products comprised of small parts, balls and/or balloons which present a choking or suffocation hazard to children. Initially I was going to begin to modify all of my descriptions but got to thinking it may be better to look at modifying or customizing the product 'Basic Info' options since this will be an ongoing issue and should be treated equally as a product SKU or Name.

In my opinion, tying a check box to a graphical 'warning' upon the item display would be idea.

Has anyone already addressed this issue? Or, does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks! (Beginning Dec 12, 2008, all web-based advertising will be required to comply with the new rules)

[mazhar]

You can keep a custom flag information with products. Then you need to create some way to respond against this information on store side. I have tried a quick fix for it. The attached code contains the moddified files of EditProduct page and one new ConLib control to show the warning. Take a backup of your existing EditProduct page files (.aspx and .cs) and try these new ones. Place the ShowWarning control in conlib and give then use this control on the product details page. Enabling the warning for a product will make a message appear on the product details page.

[mkeith1]

will there be a True/false field for "Enable Warning" added to the dataport?

[mazhar]

You can try it with latest dataport to check this.

[mazhar]

You can found the EditProduct.aspx and EditProduct.aspx.cs files in the following directory
Website\Admin\Products.

[Tomgard]

This control seems to work just fine. How would i call up an image rather than text?

[Tomgard]

will there be a True/false field for "Enable Warning" added to the dataport?

I am using DP 1.0.0.31 and it does not look like the Dataport recognizes this new field. That would be ideal.

[mazhar]

Put the your image for example warning.gif under the current themes images folder. Then edit the style.skin file of the current theme and add following line to it

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<asp:Image runat="server" SkinId="WarningImage" ImageUrl="images/warning.gif" />

Now modify the ShowWarning.ascx file and change its

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<blink>
<asp:Label ID="ShowWarningLabel" runat="server" Text="You warning text here..." Font-Size="Large" ForeColor="red"></asp:Label>
</blink>

to

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<asp:Image ID="WarningImage" SkinID="WarningImage" runat="server" />

[Tomgard]

I have found one potential issue with this new code. Any time that I edit an exsiting item and the warning code box is NOT checked it will now show a ' IsWarning: False ' in the body of the product description on the shopping cart side. See the following link for an example.
http://www.schoolsupplystore.com/Telly- ... 38872.aspx

[mazhar]

I have found one potential issue with this new code. Any time that I edit an exsiting item and the warning code box is NOT checked it will now show a ' IsWarning: False ' in the body of the product description on the shopping cart side. See the following link for an example.

Got it! This is becasuse the product descriptoin control also lists the custom fileds for the product. In order to hide this we need to update the ConLib/ProductCustomFieldsDialog control so that it doesn't list the warning field info. Edit the ConLib/ProductCustomFieldsDialog and locate the following code

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if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cf.FieldValue))

and make it look like

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if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cf.FieldValue) && cf.FieldName != "IsWarning")

[Tomgard]

That fix worked perfect! Thank you.

[Tomgard]

Following your instructions to insert an image rather than text I am stumbling somewhere.

Does it matter where this line of code is put in the Theme folder?

Then edit the style.skin file of the current theme and add following line to it

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<asp:Image runat="server" SkinId="WarningImage" ImageUrl="images/warning.gif" />

[mazhar]

Edit the style.skin file from your current store theme. Then put that line of code at the very end of the file and save it. After that make sure that warning.gif image is in the images folder of current theme.

The path for skin file: App_Themes/[Your Theme Folder]/style.skin
The path for image file: App_Themes/[Your Theme Folder]/images/warning.gif

[mazhar]

One more thing after removing the ShowWarningLabel from HTML don't forget to remove the following line of code as well.

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ShowWarningLabel.Visible = showWarning;

[jmestep]

One more note: After you remove
ShowWarningLabel.Visible = showWarning;

you need to add this in it's place:
WarningImage.Visible = showWarning;