How do I link to my website?

Summary

You can link to your FindIt vehicle advertising website or Platinum O+ e-commerce website from your own website, or host it in an "iframe". To do this the most effectively the information here will be useful to you or your web developer.

More Information

Where is my website?

First of all, to find your FindIt or e-commerce website:

• Go to " Reports & Parameters Maintenance Options Platinum O and Catalyst FindIt Online Control Panel".
• To link to your website copy and paste the displayed URL into your web browser. It will be something like:

http://www.catalyst-findit.com/index.php?c=...(long number identifying your website)...

• To link directly to your FindIt vehicle listing, take the URL above and add:

&dest=search

• To link directly to your e-commerce shop, take the URL above and add:

&dest=listing

How do I change the layout?

You can adjust the layout of the screen to a certain extent to fit your main website style:

• To change the width of the page to, say, 800 pixels, take the URL above and add:

&w=800

• To show the website "navigation" panel on the right-hand side instead of the left, add:

&nav=r

• To hide the website "navigation" panel completely, add:

&nav=h

• You can hide the usual page heading images by adding:

&h=n

• You can set the amount of results per page in your searches by, using 25 as an example adding:

&rpp=25

Valid amounts: 10, 25, 50, 100

Can I show vehicles matching a search?

You can have links on your site that would show only certain vehicles by performing a search:

&dest=search

Add this to go straight to the FindIt (vehicle) search results, or omit it to go to the home page.

&dest=listing

Add this to go straight to the Platinum O+ online store page.

&vat=ex

Add this to show VAT-exclusive prices by default in the Platinum O+ online store.

&s=yamaha+r1

Searches for vehicles with "yamaha" and "r1" in the details, features or notes. You must use only letters and numbers, and separate words with a plus symbol (+).

&t=4

Searches for type "4" (motorhomes) only. The different types are currently:

• 1: Motorcycles
• 2: Cars
• 3: Caravans
• 4: Motorhomes
• 5: Agricultural Machinery
• 6: Boats (not currently used)

&n=y

Searches for new vehicles only.

&n=n

Searches for used vehicles only.

&l=42

Searches for vehicles at the dealer's site "42" only. To find the appropriate id of a site: go to the dealer's home page, choose the desired site from the "Location..." selection, hit [Search] and find &l= in the page URL.

&bth=4

Searches for 4 berth caravans or motorhomes. The number can be from 1 to 9.

&mincc=1400

Searches for vehicles with engine size no less than 1400cc.

&maxcc=2000

Searches for vehicles with engine size no more than 2000cc.

&minp=4000

Searches for vehicles with price no less than £4000.

&maxp=8000

Searches for vehicles with price no more than £8000.

&miny=1999

Searches for vehicles manufactured in 1999 or after.

&maxy=2002

Searches for vehicles manufactured in 2002 or before.

Can I control what gets shown on my e-commerce pages?

You can customise the information displayed on your web shop in the following ways:

• To show VAT-exclusive prices by default, take the URL above and add:

&vat=ex

Note that once a customer creates an account and logs in, the site will automatically include VAT in prices, or not, depending on their registered country and business VAT details.

How can I change my style?

If you would like to change the style of the linked "iframe" this can be done using a '.css' file that you will need to create using the elements from the "FindIt" or "e-commerce website".

If you would like to know what an element is on the page then (using Firefox or Chrome) you can right mouse click on an item/section and got to "Inspect Element" then enter this into the '.css' file you create.

• This '.css' file will need to be hosted by you.
• You will then need to inform "Catalyst Support" of the URL for the location of the file who will attach it to your account.
• Any further changes you may want can be done using this file, without any intervention from Catalyst.

When creating the '.css' file it is recommended to only include the elements of the items you wish to change. Which will help when to stop confusion of the elements you are changing.

Important: As this service is free for client's with a current maintenance or rental agreement your attention is drawn to the "Internet based Services" section of the current Platinum Terms of Use (Available from the "Login" screen of Platinum on the latest version of Platinum available here) which states that the Catalyst Copyright Footer should be visible on each page.

Can I search specific area's during search

Yes, you can use parameters to check certain area's of text, to limit your results.

The following options are available to use;

• make, model, description, colour, notes, features, type, fuel, gears, category

NOTE: All specific search options should added using the &s=[options] format and be separated by a space, while the search area and search term should be seperated by a colon (:)

Make

• make:Suzuki will search for a Suzuki

Model

• model:GSXR will search for all GSXR models.

Description

• description:fast would search for vehicles with fast within the items description

Colour

• colour:red would search for vehicles that are red

Notes

• notes:fast would search the notes for the term "fast"

Features

• features:airbags would search for "airbags" within the vehicles feature list

Type

• type:scooter would search for a vehicle that has been advertised as being a scooter. For a car, this could be saloon or cabriolet etc.

Fuel

• fuel:diesel would search for vehicles that run on diesel

Gears

• gears:6 would search for the term "6" within the transmission type

Category

• category:racing would search for vehicles advertised as a type of vehicle used for racing

All search terms entered/added without the first part ([here]:[not here]) will be searched for using the normal searching procedure.

EXAMPLES To search for a green honda YZF, you would use;

• &s=make:honda model:yzf colour:green

To search for a blue tourer, you would use;

• &s=colour:blue category:tourer

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