Cart Made Simple View Cart Help

[forextrader36]

I have Cart Made Simple V0.4.2 installed.

I have the cart summary displayed in the side bar.

When I click on 'View Cart' the contents of the cart always opens up in the current page.

The current template I am using means each page has the page name displayed as the header and therefore could be confusing to customers when the shopping cart contents are displayed under a the header of the current page.

Ideally I would like to display the contents of the shopping cart on it's own page.

I'm a beginner at all this so not sure if I am doing things correctly but one thing I have tried is changing this in the fe_showcart template

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document.location.href = 'index.php?mact=CartMadeSimple,cntnt01,cart,0&cntnt01product_id='+product_id+'&cntnt01attribute_id='+attribute_id+'&cntnt01qty='+newQty+'&cntnt01perfaction=update_product';

to this

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document.location.href = 'index.php?mact=CartMadeSimple,cntnt01,cart,0&cntnt01product_id='+product_id+'&cntnt01attribute_id='+attribute_id+'&cntnt01qty='+newQty+'&cntnt01perfaction=update_product&cntnt01returnid=59';

I created a page called 'Shopping Cart' which I think is page id 59 hence 'returnid=59' however this doesn't seem to be working and view cart still continues to open in the current page.

Another problem I can foresee if this was to work would be that then I would need to get the 'Continue Shopping' link to direct somewhere else rather than staying on the shopping cart page.

Any assistance, guidance and suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.

[Duketown]

forextrader36,

Why not go for preparing a separate page with the content:
{cms_module module='CartMadeSimple' template='normalbox'}

Duketown

[forextrader36]

Hi Duketown,

Thanks for your reply.

I already have:
{cms_module module='CartMadeSimple' template='normalbox'}
in the sidebar of my site template, but when I click on the 'view cart' link in the sidebar the contents of the cart opens up in the current page.

Also I don't actually notice any difference between using
{cms_module module='CartMadeSimple' template='normalbox'}
{cms_module module='CartMadeSimple' template='tinybox'}
or
{cms_module module='CartMadeSimple'}

[Duketown]

forextrader36,

What I meant was to prepare a new page with the tag.
In the site template prepare a {cmslink ...} (hyperlink) towards this newly setup page.

Duketown

[forextrader36]

Ok I think I know what you mean but i'm not sure how I would get it to work how I need it to.

Firstly I really need to display at least a summary of the shopping cart in the sidebar (number of products & total), but the entire contents of the cart would in fact be preferable (i'm only using the summary because I wouldn't know how to get the contents to appear).

I was currently using the tag {cms_module module='CartMadeSimple' template='normalbox'} in the sidebar.

The only thing I can think is if I was to make the {$viewcart} tag in the 'normalbox' template a hyperlink instead to a page called 'shopping cart' or something.

But then, on the 'shopping cart' page the customer would end up having to click another link (view cart) to view the contents of the cart which wouldn't be a very smooth user experience?

[forextrader36]

Should I presume that what I am trying to achieve is not possible by using these modules?

[forextrader36]

Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this and can help me with this please?

[forextrader36]

Please, is there somebody that could help me get a shopping cart set up.

It would be a complete nightmare to have to completely remove cmsms and start again with something else.