We are using Optigold with a two-company license. We want to allow customers from both companies to signup online. I can separate most of the online signup pages by using the add.html page for one company and cd.html for the other. The problem with this is that I would like for a setup file to download automatically for customers from both companies (only cd.html allows this), and the last page in the online signup process (adddone.txt) is the same for both companies. We are using FileMaker Unlimited on Mac OS X as the back end web server for both companies. The same server is acting as the front end web server for one company, while a seperate FreeBSD server is acting as the front end web server for the other company.
Could you eleaborate a little? Which files, the .txt forms? And how will Optigold know to look in different directories, other than "/Applications/FileMaker Pro 5.5 Folder/Web" in Mac OS X? Thanks for your help.
They would be folders within the "Web" folder. You could replicate all the files in the Web folder (.txt files for example).
How would FileMaker know to look in the new folders? Would I move all the .txt files out of the web folder into these new folders to force it to look within subdirectories of the web folder? Or do I change code in the initial .txt file (addform1.txt) so it points to the next .txt file needed in the new directory? And how do I set up OptiGold CD signup preferences to supply information from two different companies so customers signing up for either service get the correct homepage, DNS numbers, mail settings, etc.? Also, when customers complete the online signup or CD signup process, they are being e-mailed a receipt to their username at the domain. The problem is we are not offering e-mail for this new company/service so these receipts are being returned. Is there a way to set OptiGold to not send an e-mail receipt if the customer does not specify an override or old e-mail address when they signup? We do not want to get all these receipts returned to us when they are e-mailed to a non-existent e-mail address since we do not offer an e-mail account on the new service.
FileMaker would look in the new folders if you started them in the folder. For example url/folder/add.hml The CD signup system currently only supports the primary company. What changes are you needing to make for the secondary company within the settings file? It's not possible to make the receipt sending conditional currently.
I understand the .txt things. Thanks for clearing that up. The only thing we wouldn't want customers from one company seeing in the CD signup process is the favorites we have set up for the second company. Is the only way to get around this to only use the CD signup process with one company. I figure for the second company we will offer them printed/html setup instructions since they will not get a setup file.
Another option would be to pass the CD signup output file through a script that alters it depending on the company (removing bookmarks for example). That would require a little bit of coding on your end though.