Adding an Exhibition Product Long Description

Adding an Exhibition Product Long Web Description

In the Long Description screen, you can define the long description that displays in the Product Listing and Detail modules on the web, as shown below. For example, you may want to add a Table of Contents or a brief synopsis of a book product.

If your organization wants to make an exhibition product available on the web, the only thing that the web users can do from the web is buy the product. Currently, the system does not support the ability for a web user to “register” for an exhibition registration product. Additionally, you should provide information in the long web description to inform web customers about the actual cost of exhibiting at the exhibition, because only the cost of registering for the exhibition will be visible to web customers, not the cost of booths. Finally, exhibitors are never required to pay the full cost of the exhibition up front; typically they only pay half the registration fee at time of registration and then they pay the remaining amount after booths are assigned. However, until an exhibitor workflow is implemented in e-business, the registration price that will be displayed to customers will be 100% of the registration price.

To add a long description:

1. From the Personify360 main toolbar, select Products > Product Central.
The Product Maintenance search screen displays.

2. Click Search to find a product or click Create New Product.

3. From the eBusiness Links task category, click Long Description.
The Long Description screen displays, as shown below.

4. Click Add.

5. Select the Language from the drop-down.
Only one long description per language can be added.

6. Click Edit Text.
The HTML Editor Dialog window displays.

The HTML Editor does NOT support the use of the IFRAME tag.

7. Enter any HTML text or graphics in the text box.
You can also select the Code Window radio button to enter your description in HTML code.

8. Click OK.

9. Click Save.
As of 7.5.1, if a long description is added to the product, a green check mark will display in the task menu next to the Long Description task, as shown below.

Screen Element	Description
Add	Button. When clicked, a row is added to the Languages table and the corresponding fields are enabled to add a language and description.
Delete	Button. When clicked, the highlighted row from the table and the information entered in the Languages and Description Text fields are deleted.
Language	Drop-down. Identifies the language of the text. This allows descriptive text to be shown on the website based on the language of the customer. Values are populated based on the options defined on the Language Maintenance (APP004) screen. You can only create one long description record per language for each product.
Edit Text	Button. When clicked, opens the HTML Editor Dialog window. This allows you to edit any previously created descriptions. You can enter the brief description using a Design Window or a Code Window. The Design Window displays the HTML text editor tools, which are used to format the text similar to Microsoft Word. Some benefits of HTML includes the ability to emphasize text, use block quotations, and use diagrams or mathematical formulas. The problems with using HTML include compatibility issues, privacy attacks, increased spam, and large message sizes. The Code Window is used to enter the brief description in unformatted plain text. Even though this method is unformatted, it can be used without very much processing readable by simple computer tools, such as line printing text commands in Windows DOS window type.