'Design | Text' is where you can alter every piece of text (referred to here as 'prompts') in your web site and in the reports generated by Actinic (see Reports in Actinic).
Note: You will need to change every message in the web site if you are creating a site in another language.
There are three ways to access the prompts in 'Design | Text':
· Searching - Use the search facility to search the whole of 'Design | Text'. Enter the search string into the text box at the bottom right-hand corner of the 'Design | Text' window and click 'Search'. Click 'Next' to search for further instances of the search string.
· Go Straight to a Numbered Prompt - Each prompt has a unique 'Phase' and 'ID' value. These are shown at the bottom left of the 'Design | Text' window. If you know the ID of the prompt you want, you can click the 'Go to' button and enter it in the window that appears. Click 'OK' to locate the prompt in the database you have selected in the 'Database' drop down list (the vast majority of the prompts are in the 'Catalog' database).
· Browsing - You can browse through the tabs in 'Design | Text' to find the text you want to change. A description of the different tabs in this area is below.
o Web Site - These tabs allow modification of a large number of field labels, user-defined prompts and error and warning messages.
o Web Site (cont) - This is where you can configure all the prompts and labels on the online checkout pages. More information is in Changing Checkout Questions.
o Web (Shipping) - The same as 'Web Site' except it is purely related to Shipping prompts.
o Catalog Reports - Prompts used in the 'Summary', 'Detail' and 'Stock' reports etc.
o Order Processing Reports - Prompts used in the 'Packing List', 'Invoice' and 'Data Entry' reports etc.
o Sales Reports - Prompts used in the 'Transaction', 'and 'Sales Analysis' reports.
· If you need more room to edit a prompt, right-click and select 'Zoom' (or press [Shift + F2]). This will open a prompt in a separate window. The limit is 4096 characters.
· You can click the 'Restore Defaults' button at any time to change a prompt you have edited back to its original state.
· Wherever you see a '%d' or a '%s' in a prompt, it stands for a variable that will be substituted for some text from the Actinic application, or from another prompt. It is not a good idea to delete these as Actinic might get out of sequence with substituting values and therefore cause an error. Rather, use comment marks (start with '<!- -' and end with '- ->') to hide the values from Actinic.
· You can edit the prompts in 'Design | Text' to change your store to only ask for one address per order. For more details, see Only Allowing One Address Per Order.
· If you need more room to edit a prompt, right-click and select 'Zoom' (or press [Shift + F2]). This will open a prompt in a separate window.
· The prompt 'dd/mm/yy' in the 'Web Site | Shopping Cart/Receipt' tab can be changed as required (e.g. mm/dd/yy). This changes the way that the 'Product Date Prompt' will appear to your customers and in any reports printed.
o Any number of chars can be used as separator (e.g. 'Year: yy Month: mm Day: dd' is valid).
o All of yy, mm and dd should be included at least once ('mm/dd' is not valid).