How do I link to my website?
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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.
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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:
- To perform a text search for, say "yamaha r1", take the URL above and add the following (note that spaces have to be replaced with a plus (+) symbol):
- &s=yamaha+r1
- To perform a search for, say, your motorcycles only, add:
- &t=1
- There are lots of other search terms that can be used. You can perform any search on your FindIt page by hand, note the URL that it produces, and use that on your website.
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. |
