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scry42
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - February 13 2015 : 11:58:13
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Greetings! My knowledge level in VP-ASP is very (read:VERY) basic, but it looks as if it is possible to do what I am wanting to do - tho I will need a little help from those of you who "get it."
One of my products is a .pdf file of plans that I am currently emailing manually to customers who purchase it.
I would like to have the site recognize the catalogid number for this product (183), and in the file that the customer receives as a receipt for their order, automatically include said .pdf file.
On another product, customers need to receive a .pdf file as well, though the pdf file is not the product, but information that customers need to know about the shipping of said product.
Can we oversimplify this process and make it happen?
What a blessing that would be.
Christy Hemenway Gold Star Honeybees Farmingdale, ME, USA www.goldstarhoneybees.com There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) |
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carfin
VP-CART Expert
United Kingdom
948 Posts |
Posted - February 16 2015 : 05:18:57
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Hi Christie,
the first pdf could be set up as a product, and in the product type field choose download. When the customer purchases the product it sends a download link. Saves you emailing each time
The information contained in the second pdf could be added to the description part of the product record prompting the customer to read before purchasing.
Regards,
Carrol www.deanston-electrical.co.uk |
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diegomilito
VP-CART Expert
Argentina
779 Posts |
Posted - February 16 2015 : 23:16:27
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christy, u better setup downloadable product, which a download link should show after payment. i done this before with my digital selling product, i tell u what i done before
- edit for product - in "Product Type" choose download - in "Download" field enter location of your pdf, say i put it images/xxxxx.pdf - xendoforderhyperlinks yes - xendofordervalidpayments paypal,visa,etc....... - xendoforderhyperlinkfield orderdownload
any question u can ask me. diego
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scry42
Starting Member
USA
4 Posts |
Posted - February 19 2015 : 19:33:11
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Thanks for all this help - sorry to be so slow in implementing and responding...
I was able to make the product downloadable, (Yay! )but only as a file that actually downloads, not as a live hyperlink that the customer can click on.
When I try to set up the hyperlink and click on it, it gives an error message: "Download is not authorized."
Any ideas?
Christy Hemenway Gold Star Honeybees Farmingdale, ME, USA www.goldstarhoneybees.com There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) |
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serjtankian
VP-CART Super User
Armenia
378 Posts |
Posted - February 20 2015 : 11:23:16
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i think you need to logged in as a customer to download the file
*serj* |
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scry42
Starting Member
USA
4 Posts |
Posted - February 23 2015 : 16:58:06
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An update for serjtankian, diegomilito, and carfin. Well - I have Secure Download working now. It was both simpler and more complicated than you would have thought. Settings changes are required in two places - the product itself, and Shop Configuration under 3 - Delivery & Shipping, under Secure Downloads. Here they are in the hope that this proves helpful for others:
On the Product: 1) Change the Product Type to Download via the dropdown menu 2) In the Download field, enter the location of the file to be downloaded, in this case it was: C:\Inetpub\vhosts\goldstarhoneybees.com\httpdocs\images\xxxxxxx.pdf
In the Shop Configuration, under #3 Delivery & Shipping - go into Secure Downloads and match these settings:
xdownloadblock = No (If this is set to yes, it shuts down the secure download facility. Used to stop hacker attacks.) xdownloadfeature = No xdownloadlimitcount = I have this set to 5 - it’s the number of times they can return to download the product xdownloadlimitdays = I have this set to 365 - it’s the number of days before it will no longer let them download the product xdownloads = Yes Xdownloadsemail = Yes Xdownloadswithoutlogin = No xendoforderattachmentfield = orderattachment (this is a default, not actually used in this case) xendoforderattachments = No xendoforderhyperlinkemail = Yes xendoforderhyperlinkfield = orderdownload xendoforderhyperlinks = No (If this is set to yes, it allows for UNSECURED hyperlinks at the end of an email) xendofordervalidpayments = AuthorizeNet AIM
These settings allow for a live (randomly generated?) download link on both the order confirmation page and in the email receipt sent to the customer. When this email is sent to someone else the download is not available, if it is copy/pasted to someone else, again, the download is not available. (:-)) The link will download the document for the number of times set under xdownloadlimitcount or for the number of days set under xdownloadlimitdays, whichever happens first.
serjtankian - Yes the customer must log in to the "customer service facility" in order to get to their download. But the cause of the "Download is not authorized" error message turned out to be that I was testing with a free product, but had not changed xendofordervalidpayment to read Payment not Required. If the product is free, that field must say Payment not required. If the product is NOT free, enter the payment method you will accept.
I can’t get over the feeling that there’s an additional layer of security that could be put in place here by using the xdownloadfeature field to send the Secure Download facility to a different location for the file, which sounds like it would be more secure, but I haven’t seen that work. If anyone had additional info on that, I''d be happy to hear it.
Also I used these "helpnotes" to advantage: http://helpnotes.vpasp.com/kb/25-Order-Attachments-and-Downloads/833-Order-Attachments-&-Secure-Downloads/
Thanks to all who contributed!
:-)
Christy Hemenway Gold Star Honeybees Farmingdale, ME, USA www.goldstarhoneybees.com There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) |
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diegomilito
VP-CART Expert
Argentina
779 Posts |
Posted - February 26 2015 : 03:38:34
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that sounds cool... i got time to read the helpnote, thanks too. diego |
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