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The Anatomy & Elements of BuyObjects

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BuyObjects are made up of the following three main sections:

A) The Form, which in Source, has a starting Form tag: "<form>" and a closing Form Tag "</form>", and appears as a rectangle with a little "F" in the corner  in Layout View. (See Fig. 5)

B) The BuyObject Field Elements, (white area in Fig. 5 below) which includes several required fields, plus optional fields, such as popups, radio buttons, checkboxes, submit button (or submit image) and GoShip fields. Note that in the Group BuyObject, the Form will contain several Fields Groups.

C) A Single Cell Table containing both the Form and the BuyObject Field Elements. Each BuyObject is contained in a single cell table, so that it can be placed and sized on the page, whether the layout uses grids, tables, floating boxes or plain HTML. Without the table, the form field would expand to fill the entire width of the page.

The BuyObject Field Elements are labeled and color coded below, for ease of identification.

item: This is where you enter your stock
number or SKU ("Stock Keeping Unit")

  custID: Leave this field completely empty. The
  cart assigns a unique Customer Identification code.

  quantity: There can be only one quantity field per
  buy object, but you can use either a hidden field or
  a text field for it.

  product: the product name or description,
for example: "Tin Plated Hurricane Lamp".

Submit Button or Submit Image: There must be at least one submit. There can be more, for example in a long Group BuyObject containing many BuyObject Field Groups.

  price: the unit price of the item. Do not
  include monetary signs. (No $ )

  GoShip: These four fields, length, width, height and
  weight are for the optional GoShip custom shipping
 calculation interface, which provides real time
  shipping calculations for UPS, FedEx, AIRBORNE
  EXPRESS, DHL and the U. S. Postal Service. They
  do nothing unless you subscribe to GoShip.

  nontax: This field is for taxation. If the
  item is tax exempt, you enter "yes". If it is
  taxable, you enter "no".

      
Fig. 5: BuyObject showing all the Sections: (A) the form, (B) The BuyObject Field Elements (white area) containing text fields, popups, radio buttons, checkboxes and submit button or submit graphic, and (C) the single cell table all of it is in.

Related subjects: BuyObject Rules

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