Hello:

In the Smith Cart How To forum, I talked about creating a parallel set of Smith Cart modules using the Smith.BuyNow.Custom type of naming conventions and then creating a Smith.Cart.Custom.dnn manifest file to install the parallel ascx and other UI files.

However, it looks like this method has hit a snag indicated in the following error:

AssemblyVersion: 5.4.1
PortalID: 3
PortalName: Custom
UserID: 1
UserName: host
ActiveTabID: 544
ActiveTabName: Agreement Details
RawURL: /Services/AgreementDetails.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://www.custom.com/Services/AgreementDetails.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: b4b7663e-6e7a-4af6-8c7d-f02844c31cc9
InnerException: Can't get ModuleId for given module name 'Smith.BuyNow'
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: Smith.DNN.Modules.ProductDetail.ProductDetails.GetModuleIdByName
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Can't get ModuleId for given module name 'Smith.BuyNow' ---> System.ApplicationException: Can't get ModuleId for given module name 'Smith.BuyNow' at Smith.DNN.Modules.ProductDetail.ProductDetails.GetModuleIdByName(Int32 tabId, String moduleName) at Smith.DNN.Modules.ProductDetail.ProductDetails.AddToCart(Int32 ProductID, Decimal Quantity, Decimal price, Boolean isRequired, Int32 bundleID, Boolean inBundle, Decimal myWeight, Int32 catID) at Smith.DNN.Modules.ProductDetail.ProductDetails.ibAddtoCart_Click(Object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.OnClick(ImageClickEventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:

It looks like the string 'Smith.BuyNow' is hardcoded into the aspx code. Is that correct?

Unless you know of a way around this, (such as changing Smith.BuyNow.Custom to Smith.BuyNow in the DNN Modules table) it limits us to one Smith Cart to one DNN Install. Apart from the different Custom styles for each client, the server certificate for HTTPS is also another constraint that tends to make us use one Smith Cart per DNN Install.

Regards,
Guy

Guy,
I'm not totally clear on what your trying to do but if you want to host many different carts in a single dnn install you can do that with one install the cart. If you want to style the cart differently by portal here is a "how to" article on it http://www.smith-consulting.com/Forums/forumid/13/threadid/3348/scope/posts.aspx . If make are your styling changes in the portal.css like the article describes when you upgrade your Smith Cart you wont lose any changes. and of course when you upgrade the cart all the data in the sql tables like products and orders is never overwritten and always preserved.

-Scott

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Scott Kelly
Project Manager

Scott:

I've found that changing portal.css is insufficient in a lot of cases where clients simply want to remove whole sections (like the tabbed bottomdiv in productdetail.ascx). The other place where customization is not supported are the actual graphic files for the buttons and things. If you would put css classes where ever you use images, then maybe it would be possible to replace/customize those images either with jQuery or css.

Regards,
Guy

Scott:

Last time I studied your SmithCart source in any detail was back before your version 4. I am encouraged to hear that you have put CSS flexibility in your source. I will reassess and perhaps revise my approach to customization based on these improvements.

Regards,
Guy