Extra Screens (Miva Module)

Purpose of Module

The Extra Screens module allows you to have an unlimited number of additional information screens within your store. The new screens can optionally contain the navigation bar, category tree, global header, and global footer.

How to Install
  • Installing the Module
    1. Unzip the module's ZIP file to your hard drive
    2. Log into your Miva admin utility
    3. Expand the navigation tree next to Modules
    4. Click the link "Add Module"
    5. Click the "Upload File" graphic
    6. Click the "Browse" button
    7. Browse to the location where you stored the files from extracted from the ZIP file
    8. Select nbxtrascrns.mv (or nbxtrascrns.mvc for the compiled version)
    9. Click the "Upload" button
    10. When the graphic has been uploaded, the small "Upload File" window will disappear, leaving you with the main Miva admin screen visible
    11. Click the "Add" button on the main Miva admin screen

  • Associating the Module with a Store
    1. Log into your Miva admin utility
    2. Expand the navigation tree next to Stores
    3. Expand the navigation tree next to the store with which you wish to associate this module
    4. Click the link "Utilities"
    5. In the assigned module list, you should see an entry for "netBlazon's Extra Screens"
    6. Check the checkbox next to this module and click Update
How to Configure
  1. Log into your Miva admin utility
  2. Expand the navigation tree next to Stores
  3. Expand the navigation tree next to the store with which you wish to associate this module
  4. Expand the navigation tree next to "Utilties" (the "Utilities" under your store, not the primary domain's "Utilities" link)
  5. Click the "netBlazon's Extra Screens" link
  6. Click on the circular "Add New Screen" icon to create an extra screen
  7. On the second page, enter a unique code for the screen in the first textbox. This code should not be one of the standard Miva Merchant screen codes, or any code used by any other third-party module. This is the code you will use to link to your extra page (such as http://www.youstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Store_Code=yourstore&screen=YOURCODE)
  8. Enter a title for your page. This title will appear in the browser window titlebar when a customer views this page.
  9. Optionally, use Internal Description to enter information about the new screen. This text is not visible to the customer.
  10. Choose whether you wish to display the Global Header, Global Footer, Category Tree. and Navigation Bar by checking or unchecking the appropriate boxes. You may also uncheck the Activated checkbox if you want to keep the data for a screen in your database, but do not currently want the screen to be active.
  11. Enter the html to be displayed on the page in the Contents area. You should not enter <html>, <head>, or <body> opening and closing tags, as these will be generated by Miva Merchant. Simply enter the HTML that would normally be displayed within your <body> tags.
  12. To link to your page, use the same URL format as other pages in your store, but set the "Screen=" portion of your URL to the screen code for this page. For instance, if your store's product pages have a URL like:
    http://www.yourstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=yourstore&Product_Code=yourprodcode
    then enter the URL to your extra screen as:
    http://www.yourstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=YOURCODE&Store_Code=yourstore
    where YOURCODE is the screen code entered in the module's admin interface. Note that you do not need to include the Category_Code or Product_Code variables in the URL. Also, if you have only one store in your domain, you may omit the Store_Code variable from the URL as such:
    http://www.yourstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=YOURCODE
    for better Google spidering.
  13. Click the Update button to save your changes
  14. You may add as many screens as you need. You can also click the circular Edit Screen Info button next to any screen in order to change its information. You cannot edit an extra screen's code, however. If you need to change a code, you must create a new entry with the appropriate code, and copy the data from the old entry to the new one.
  15. To remove a screen, check the checkbox next to the appropriate screen under the Remove column. Then click the Update button.
Support
For questions or problems with your Extra Screens module, please send email to miva@netblazon.com.