User manual MACROMEDIA DRUMBEAT 2000 ECOMMERCE EDITION

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MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE ENCLOSED COMPUTER SOFTWARE PACKAGE, ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THERE MAY BE OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE. [. . . ] For Background Content, make sure File is selected and click the ellipsis button. 144 Chapter 8 3 In the Media Properties dialog, click the File Location Browse button and navigate to the background you want to use. 4 If the image does not appear as the background, uncheck and recheck the Background Image checkbox. For information about media assets, see chapter 7 Images in Using Drumbeat. Customizing Quick Store 145 Change the Navigation Buttons Before making modifications, be sure to take a snapshot or open a site based on the QuickStoreComplete Starting Point so you don't change the base site file. You can change these buttons to suit your storefront in the attributes for the element. The Image Button SmartElement is used for the navigation buttons so that each button has an on and off state. To change navigation images: 1 2 In the layout, right click an Image Button element and choose Attributes. For the Content attribute, make sure File List is selected and click the ellipsis button. Navigate to the image file you want to use for the off-state and click Add. (Adding images in this order ensures that the on-state image is on top. However, you can change the content order in the Multimedia Properties dialog). 3 4 Select and click Remove each Quick Store image file. 146 Chapter 8 Change the Link Styles Before making modifications, be sure to take a snapshot or open a site based on the QuickStoreComplete Starting Point so you don't change the base site file. You can change the Quick Store link styles to your own on the Master Template. To change link styles: 1 2 In Templates Manager, click on the Master Template to make its layout active. For Link Styles (including Visited, Active, and Hover), choose the desired style from the dropdown lists. To learn how to create your own styles, see Chapter 4 Navigation under Link Styles & Effects in Using Drumbeat or check the Drumbeat Help for the words in bold. Change Images and Text You can change images and text such as logos and descriptions right in the layout or from the element's attributes. You can learn about these techniques from the following chapters in Using Drumbeat: Chapter 5 Layouts Chapter 6 Text Chapter 7 Images Customizing Quick Store 147 Customizing the Quick Store Content The Quick Store content is derived from querying the products database. By changing the content in the products database, adding a new DataSource Name (DSN) and applying that DSN to each query in Drumbeat, you can quickly customize the content in Quick Store. Before making modifications, be sure to make a copy and rename the database. Customize Database Content Before making modifications, be sure to make a copy and rename the database. The bookstore database is located at <installation directory>/Drumbeat 2000/ Quick Store/SiteAssets/Databases. To customize the database content: 1 Open the copy of the bookstore database in Access and from the Tables tab click the Books table. The screen capture below shows all of the data fields in the Books table. 148 Chapter 8 2 Open the table in Datasheet view and replace the existing content with your product content. Book cover images are referenced from the books table in the Coverpic field. Remember to copy your product shots to the images folder under the publishing directory. An images folder is created by default when publishing. 3 Once you have finished adding product information to the table, save and close the file. Create New DataSource Name In Drumbeat, you are going to create a new DSN that points to your customized bookstore database. To create a new DataSource Name: 1 2 3 4 From Asset Center, click Add Assets and choose Queries. In the ODBC Data Source Administrator, click the Systems DSN tab and click Add. Then, name the Data Source and click Select and navigate to your customized version of the bookstore database. Click OK to close the dialog. 5 Customizing Quick Store 149 6 In SQL Query Manager, select the new DSN from the dropdown list. 7 8 Click Save Query. In Query Manager, repeat steps 6 and 7 for each query so that each query uses the new DSN. [. . . ] You will have to update your database to reflect changes in the rates. Parameters: BillingStateCol is the name of the column in the CustomerRS that contains the customer's billing state. MyStates is the comma separated list of state abbreviations representing the list of states in which you do business and for which you are responsible for paying sales tax. For example, if you have business locations in California and Nevada, you would enter "CA, NV" for this parameter. TaxCol is the name of the column in the TaxRS that contains the tax rate for a given state. [. . . ]