Glossary of Terms ^ Tags

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^back: Within a dialog, creates a hot link that returns customer to the prior page when the current page is access using the backable modifier. This command functions in a manner similar to the browser back button.

<tame> ^back: BUTTON-FACE-AREA </tame>

Note: Backable and ^back currently can not be used on the same page to support different links.

Note: Backable and ^back are designed for use within a dialog. Use dialog buttons for access between dialogs.

Example:

On the first page to present to the customer the following command is used:
<tame backable link: page2.tam NewPage>

On the second page, NewPage, the following command is used:
<tame ^back: OldPage>

On the first page the hot link "NewPage" will appear. When this link is selected the second page will be retrieved. The second page will have a hot link "OldPage" which will return the customer to the first page. The default button for ^back is .

See Also: backable, ^link

^buy: Creates a buy button on any tame page. Clicking on the button brings up the shopping cart.

<tame ^buy: ITEM BUTTON-FACE-AREA>: Note: The ^buy button can be used inside or outside of forms. Inside forms this button becomes a form submit button. Outside of forms it becomes a standard link.

Example:

<tame ^buy: example>

Presents a buy button for the product "example" using the standard icon.

<tame ^buy: example Buy Me>

Presents a buy button for the product "example" using the words Buy Me as the buy button.

<tame ^buy: example <img src=star.gif width=10 height=10>>

Presents a buy button for the product example using the image as the buy button.

See also: ^buyloop, ^buygoto, form buying, Example (sample.tam)

^buybox: Used within a form, this tag provides check boxes to select items for purchase. A ^buysubmit button is used to add the selected items to the customer's cart.

Example:

<tame form>
<tame ^buybox: example>
<tame ^buysubmit: Add Items>
<tame /form>

This example will present a check box for the item "example". When used with the ^buysubmit command the items are added to the customer's cart.

Modifier: checked

See Also: ^buy, form, ^buysubmit, Example (e3.tam), (sample.tam)

^buygoto: Creates a buy button on any tame page. Clicking on the button adds items to the cart and links to the page given by the DOCUMENT-LOCATION. The next page must be a tame page and have <tame tamehead> at the top of the page.
<tame ^buygoto: ITEM DOCUMENT-LOCATION BUTTON-FACE-AREA>: Note: The ^buygoto button can be used inside or outside of forms. Inside forms this button becomes a form submit button. Outside of forms it becomes a standard link.

Example:

<tame ^buygoto: example pgoto.tam>

This example adds the item "example" to the cart and moves the customer to the page "pgoto.tam" using the generic ^buy button.

<tame ^buygoto: example pgoto.tam DETAILS>

This example adds the item "example" to the cart and moves the customer to the page "pgoto.tam" using a button with the label "DETAILS."

See also: ^buy, ^buyloop, ^buysubmit, form buying, tamehead, Example (sample.tam)

^buyinputqty: Within a form, this tag provides an input box indicating the quantity of an item to be purchased.

INITIAL_QUANTITY:

The initial quantity of the item that will be displayed in the quantity box. The default is 0.

WIDTH:

The size of the quantity box in characters. The default is 4.

Example:

<tame form>
{descrip: example}{price: example}<tame ^buyinputqty: example>
<tame ^buysubmit: Add Items>
<tame /form>

In this example, the initial quantity box for the item "example" will be the default, zero, and the input box will be the default, 4 characters wide. The ^buysubmit adds the items to the cart.

<tame form>
{descrip: example}
{price: example}<tame ^buyinputqty: example 12 3>
<tame ^buysubmit: Add Items>
<tame /form>

In this example, the initial quantity box for the item "example" will be one dozen and the input box will be 3 characters wide. The ^buysubmit adds the items to the cart.

See Also: ^buy, form, ^buysubmit, form buying, Example (sample.tam)

^buyloop: Creates a buy button that loops back to the same page. Using this command on a page with a cart panel allows a customer to purchase several item from a selection list and interactively see the shopping cart updates.

Note: The ^buyloop button can be used inside or outside of forms. Inside forms this button becomes a form submit button. Outside of forms it becomes a standard link.

Note: Access to the cart should be provided on a page using this command with either a cart panel or ^viewcart tag.

Example:

<tame>
show_panel: cart.pan
HEADER
TITLE [A Basket]
COLUMNS remove item qty descrip price amount
BUTTONS checkstand clear redo
TEXTBUTTONS
</tame>

Click on the buy button to update cart.
<tame descrip: example> <tame^buyloop: example> $<tame price: example>
<tame descrip: widget> <tame^buyloop: widget Buy Me!> $<tame price: widget>
<tame descrip: thing> <tame ^buyloop: thing <img src=star.gif width=20 height=20>> $<price: thing>

In this example the item "example" will presented with standard ^buy button. The item "widget" will have "Buy Me!" as the link to add the item to the customer's cart and the item "thing's" ^buy button will be indicated by the star.gif.

See also: ^buy, ^buygoto, form buying, cart.pan, Example (sample.tam)

^buyradio: Used within a form to display a radio button. This button is used to select items for purchase. To add the items to the customer's cart a ^buysubmit or ^buysubmitloop is required.

Example:

<tame form>
<tame checked ^buyradio: items "NONE"> Nothing today

<tame ^buyradio: items example>
<tame descrip: example>
<tame &CU price: example>/each

<tame ^buyradio: items widget>
<tame descrip: widget>
<tame &CU price: widget>/each

<tame tb: {^buysubmit: Purchase selected items}>

This will present a group of three radio buttons for "None", "example" and "widget." The "None" radio button will be pre-selected because of the checked modifier.

Modifier: checked

See Also: ^buysubmit, form, form buying, tb, Example

^buyselect: Within a form, provides a selection box from which to choose an item for purchase. The ITEM must correspond to the ITEM code in the product database.

ITEM:: A list of ITEM codes corresponding to the item entries in the product database to be presented in a selection box.

Note: Any of the following words or single characters can be used as one of the selection values to generate a null value. NONE, *, ., and #

Example

<form>
<tame ^buyselect: test NONE example widget>
<tame tb: {^buysubmit: Purchase selected items}>
</form>

This example will present a selection box with no item initially selected. When the customer activates the down down list "example" and "widget" will appear.

See Also: ^buysubmit, ^buyselect2, form, form buying, Example

^buyselect2: Within a form, provides a selection box from which to choose an item for purchase. The ITEM must correspond to the ITEM code in the product database.

[DISPLAY] ITEM:: A list of [DISPLAY] ITEM pairs where ITEM corresponds to the item entries in the product database and DISPLAY is a customer friendly description of the product to be presented in the selection box. The [ ] are used if there are embedded spaces in the display or item information.

Note: Any of the following words or single characters can be used as one of the selection values to generate a null value. NONE, *, ., and #.

Note: This tag will function only with browsers that support HTML 3.0 features.

Example

<form>
<tame ^buyselect2: test NONE [Great Product] 5000 [Productive Tool] 6000>
<tame tb: {^buysubmit: Purchase selected items}>
</form>

This example will present a selection box with no item initially selected. When the customer activates the selection list "Great Product" and "Productive Tool" will appear. Once an item is selected, the appropriate item code "5000" or "6000" will be sent to the system for processing.

See Also: ^buysubmit, ^buyselect, form, form buying, Example

^buyselectqty: Within a form, creates a selection box from which to select the QUANTITY of an ITEM to add to the customer's cart. This tag provides a restricted quantities list for an item. To allow any quantity input use the ^buyinputqty tag.

QUANTITY:: The list of numbers representing the quantity of the ITEM a customer can purchase.

Example:

<tame descrip: widget>
<tame select_quality: widget Color Yellow Green>
$ <tame price: widget>
<tame ^buyselectqty: widget 0 1 2 3 4 5>

This example provides provides details about a "widget" and then limits the quantity to purchase (0 to 5) with the ^buyselectqty button.

See Also: Example(e11.tam), select_quality

^buysubmit: Creates a button that adds items selected using ^buybox and ^buyradio to the customer's cart and presents the shopping cart.

Note: The ^buysubmit button can be used inside or outside of forms. Inside forms this button becomes a form submit button. Outside of forms it becomes a standard link.

Example:

<tame form>
<tame ^buybox: example> A Example product
<tame ^buybox: widget {*star*}> A great widget
<tame ^buysubmit: Add items to your cart>
<tame /form>

Presents two products for selection and provides a button, ^buysubmit, to add the items to the customers cart. For "example" the standard buy button will appear as the default . In the case of "widget", the TAMEIMAGE star,, will appear as the buy button.

See Also: ^buybox, ^buyradio, example (e3), define, form

^buysubmitloop: Within a form, creates a button that adds items selected using the ^buybox or ^buyradio command to the customer's cart. The button then loops back to the same page. When this command is used on a page with a cart panel, an updated cart is presented.

Note: Access to the cart should be provided on a page using this command with either a cart panel or ^viewcart tag.

Example:

<tame>
show_panel: cart.pan
</tame>

<tame form>
<tame ^buybox: example>
<tame ^buysubmitloop: Buysubmitloop>
<tame /form>

In this example the page will initially present a checkbox to purchase the item example with a buy button. When the buy button is selected an updated cart panel will be displayed at the top of the page.

^cancel: A dialog button that will cancel the current dialog and return the customer to the prior dialog. This tag is useful when a customer wants to exit an input form without submitting information.

Note: This tag is not yet available

Note: The top level dialog, normally the catalog, can not be canceled.

Example:

The default icon for ^cancel is