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clicking two submit butttons

Asked by: jgdescort

I have bought a third party chat program and vendor provided me with the code and image for chat to add into my html code. Once the image is clicked the control is redirected to vendor's site for chat. Everything works fine but I don't get any tracking information i.e what page user is clicking this button. Log file shows 'leaving the site' and nothing more. I would like to place my own button on top of vendor's button so when my button is clicked I can write a cookie and then trigger a click event so it work as usual for the vendor. Is it possible to do this? I am using html and classic asp for my shopping cart. Thank you for your help

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2008-02-19 at 13:09:08ID23175730
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Answers

 

by: hamidovtPosted on 2008-02-20 at 00:21:31ID: 20935908

It is difficut to say anything without really seeing what you have done... Could you please send the code you were supplied by the third party? I mean the code you have described as "vendor provided me with the code and image for chat to add into my html code".

 

by: jgdescortPosted on 2008-02-20 at 08:43:45ID: 20939483

Thank you for the response. Here is the code (id is replaced by fake id )

  <a id="_lpChatBtn"  
href='https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=12345&byhref=1&imageUrl=https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hcp/Gallery/ChatButton-Gallery/English/Small/2a' target='chat12345'  onClick="lpButtonCTTUrl = 'https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345/?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=12345&imageUrl=https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hcp/Gallery/ChatButton-Gallery/English/Small/2a&referrer='+escape(document.location); lpButtonCTTUrl = (typeof(lpAppendVisitorCookies) != 'undefined' ? lpAppendVisitorCookies(lpButtonCTTUrl) : lpButtonCTTUrl); window.open(lpButtonCTTUrl,'chat12345','width=475,height=150,resizable=yes');return false;"
><img src='https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345/?cmd=repstate&site=12345&channel=web&&ver=1&imageUrl=https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hcp/Gallery/ChatButton-Gallery/English/Small/2a' name='hcIcon' border=0></a>            

 

by: hamidovtPosted on 2008-02-25 at 01:02:03ID: 20973739

Hi there,

Sorry for replying late, I was out of office for couple of dayes...
HTML you have does the following: when someone clicks the button javascript does some stuff with cookies and finally open the chat window  (https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345/?...) If you want to do some operation before this, the best you can do is to make some kind of between page and do those operations on that page and afterfward do the job your scipt is doing... To put this all togeteher make a page redyrect.asp (you can call it differently) and put the your onClick code in it:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('chat window will open!!');

//open chat page
lpButtonCTTUrl = 'https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345/?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=12345&imageUrl=https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hcp/Gallery/ChatButton-Gallery/English/Small/2a&referrer='+escape(document.location);
lpButtonCTTUrl = (typeof(lpAppendVisitorCookies) != 'undefined' ? lpAppendVisitorCookies(lpButtonCTTUrl) : lpButtonCTTUrl);
window.open(lpButtonCTTUrl,'chat12345','width=475,height=150,resizable=yes');
</script>

This page does the operation you button click did... You can add some code before of after this to do the stuff you wanted.

The code had

  <a id="_lpChatBtn"  
href='https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=12345&byhref=1&imageUrl=https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hcp/Gallery/ChatButton-Gallery/English/Small/2a' target='chat12345'  onClick="lpButtonCTTUrl = 'https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345/?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=12345&imageUrl=https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hcp/Gallery/ChatButton-Gallery/English/Small/2a&referrer='+escape(document.location); lpButtonCTTUrl = (typeof(lpAppendVisitorCookies) != 'undefined' ? lpAppendVisitorCookies(lpButtonCTTUrl) : lpButtonCTTUrl); window.open(lpButtonCTTUrl,'chat12345','width=475,height=150,resizable=yes');return false;"
><img src='https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345/?cmd=repstate&site=12345&channel=web&&ver=1&imageUrl=https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hcp/Gallery/ChatButton-Gallery/English/Small/2a' name='hcIcon' border=0></a>      

should be changed to open your redirect page:
  <a id="_lpChatBtn"   href="" onClick="window.open('redirect.asp'">open</a>
 
  or even simpler ...
 
  <a href="redirect.asp">open</a>
 

 

by: jgdescortPosted on 2008-02-26 at 14:11:40ID: 20989525

Thank you for your response. I will try this approach and see if it works.

 

by: jgdescortPosted on 2008-03-05 at 05:10:38ID: 21049907

This did not work the way I expected.

Along with requiring a visitor to click multiple times, a couple of other problems showed up.
The chat window, after you click ok on the 'Chat window will open' message, gets blocked as a pop-up by both IE7 and Firefox 2.

When you ok the pop-up the chat window opens fine, but when you close the chat window you're left with the blank redirect page.

 

by: hamidovtPosted on 2008-03-05 at 05:39:01ID: 21050127

Hi,
Wel that is quite expected... However

"The chat window, after you click ok on the 'Chat window will open' message, gets blocked as a pop-up by both IE7 and Firefox 2." is the problem you had with you previous HTML as wel, because you already had "... window.open(lpButtonCTTUrl,'chat12345','width ..." in your onClick...

"When you ok the pop-up the chat window opens fine, but when you close the chat window you're left with the blank redirect page." can be solved. I assumed that after logiing you will close the page, you could do that with window.close();





 

by: hamidovtPosted on 2008-03-05 at 05:57:02ID: 21050258

alernative is that you use ASP code:

 - In that case you should use some kind of hidden input field (<input type="hidden" name="buttonCliked'" value="false" ID="buttonCliked">) and set its value to true onl clik of your button and make page submit (
onclick="YourFormName.buttonCliked.value='true'; YourFormName..submit();" )

 - Your asp code has to have something like
<%
if Request("SubmitAll") <> "true" then
  write log
  response.redirect "'https://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/12345?cmd=file&file=vis....."
end if
%>

you have to have some classic ASP knowledge to be able to implement this, but this solution will overcome poup blocker and empty page problem. however chat window will take over the existing page, so it will not open with 'width=475,height=150,resizable=yes' paramethers as specified with window.open(...   The disadvantage of using window.open is the poup blocker problem...

 

by: jgdescortPosted on 2008-03-12 at 05:16:15ID: 21105033

Thank you for your suggestion. At this point I can not use asp because that requires too many changes and I don't have resource to do it.

 

by: hamidovtPosted on 2008-03-12 at 05:23:58ID: 21105106

Actually it is quite simple for someone who knows classic ASP, so it would not require much resources. I think if I would be phisically located in your working environment I could do that in 4 to 8 hours... But that is not the option since you are in US. If possible, just hire a local  ASP expert...

 

by: jgdescortPosted on 2008-04-16 at 06:01:36ID: 21367210

Third party chat program vendor provided me with the code to track on their site with Google analytics so I have decided to go that route. Thank you very much for your help.

 

by: hamidovtPosted on 2008-04-16 at 06:07:27ID: 21367274

That is OK with me.

Although you have not used them, I have provided you multiple solutions and explained many aspects of this problem.

Could you please accept one of my suggestions?

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