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Dealer Locator Ajax Sample Code

Overview

Add a Dealer Locator search to your existing public website by embedding including a little javascript to do an ajax call. In the ajax approach, you use a form similar to the one from the iframe approach, but use javascript to intercept the form submit and do an ajax request back to the channelsuite server. The returned html table is inserted into a <div> in your code and rendered by your browser without redrawing the whole page.

Steps

1. Contact ChannelSUITE tech support and request the DealerLocator zip file (ChannelSUITE customers only, please!) that contains the necessary .js and .css files. Unlike the iframe approach where the html styles are supplied by the channelsuite server, the html returned by the ajax approach uses styles specified on your site, giving you a lot more control over the appearance of your dealer locator results.

2. Include the prototype.js, DealerLocator.js and CSS files in your html <head> section.

<link href="DealerLocator.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="DealerLocator.js"></script>

3. Set up a form in your html to allow your website visitors to enter some search parameters. See the main dealer_locator page for info on the supported search parameters. The form element id parameters must match the search parameter names, and the onSubmit parameter must be specified as shown. In the following example we allow search by country. Please contact support for the list of available country codes.

  <form method=POST target="dealerLocatorFrame" onSubmit="return fetchit()" 
          action="http://<your channelsuite URL>/API/DealerLocator/">
    Please select your country: 
    <select id="country" name=country>
      <option value='' selected>Select...</option>
      <option value=1>USA</option>
      <option value=36>China</option>
      <option value=160>Taiwan</option>
      <option value=158>Sweden</option>
      <option value=30>Canada</option>
      <option value=81>Japan</option>
      <option value=174>UK</option>
    </select>
    <br/><br/>
    <div align=center><input value="Find Dealers" type="submit"></div>
  </form>

4. Place a div with id=“output-div” somewhere in your html page; the html code returned by the ajax call will replace the contents of output-div. Also, optionally place an empty iframe to use to catch normally submitted search results when javascript is not available.

  <div id="output-div">Results go Here!</div>
  <iframe name="dealerLocatorFrame" style="width: 95%;  border: none;" 
          src="" id="dealerLocatorFrame"></iframe>

5. Edit the DealerLocator.css file to match the rest of your site

6. Edit DealerLocator.js and change the url variable to

http://<your channelsuite URL>/API/DealerLocator

that should do it!

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