Problems with integrating paypal button on xara webdesigner 6

Hi guys and ladies,

how are you? Hope everyone is doing well. I need help. I'm having major Problems with integrating paypal buttons on a xara webdesigner 6 site i'm building. Before it would be easy, with the ecommerce tab in the designs gallery, where you would simple press "insert" and there the button would appear. But all of a sudden now, the web browser opens up, (internet explorer, which is not my default browser) and you cannot right click and paste the html code onto the xara site for it to appear as a button. It should say paste html placeholder when you right click to paste, but instead when I attempt to put a paypal button on there , using the hml generated on the paypal page, it gets pasted as "unformatted text", literally the lettering of html, but no paypal button. Please, please please help!!! What do I do??? Please help!!!! Thank you all in advance!

Rob

Hello Rob

You might be better off visiting the PayPay site, logging into your account, and generating your script there.

It is really more direct and basically the same thing that Xara is doing.

Have you checked out Xara's widget guide on inserting these widgets, it has step by step instructions. This is a link to the E-commerce page http://www.xara.com/widgets/v6/e-commerce

I agree with Gary. Much easier and direct to just get the script direct from paypal site and drop it into your placeholder.(less "middlemen")

Ken

Hi Ken,
Thank you so much for your advice. The problem I have, is that the html placeholder does not come up! Instead, when I right click, it says "Paste unformatted text" and the html comes up, rather than the button. Its quite frustrating to be honest. I'd appreciate any advice on how to get the html placeholder to come up rather than the "unformatted text" thing.

Thank you Pete! The problem I have, is that the html placeholder does not come up! Instead, when I right click, it says "Paste unformatted text" and the html comes up, rather than the button. Its annoying. I'd appreciate any advice on how to get the html placeholder to come up rather than the "unformatted text" thing.

Hi Mentorman, Thank you so much for your advice. The problem I have, is that the html placeholder does not come up! Instead, when I right click, it says "Paste unformatted text" and the html comes up, rather than the button. Its quite frustrating to be honest. I'd appreciate any advice on how to get the html placeholder to come up rather than the "unformatted text" thing.

Hi gwpriester,
Thank you so much for your advice. The main problem I have, is that the html placeholder does not come up! Instead, when I right click, it says "Paste unformatted text" and the html comes up, rather than the button. Its quite frustrating to be honest. I'd appreciate any advice on how to get the html placeholder to come up rather than the "unformatted text" thing.

Hi Sith

There is no need to reply four times with the same reply, one reply thanking everyone by name is enough

Hi sith, when after I set up the placeholder,then copied the code for paypal into the htm section I found that when I first viewed the site (before exporting) I got nothing. It wasn't until the site connected to paypal that the link was activated and the paypal icons appeared in the placeholders. I could then adjust their exact positioning etc.Hope this helps
Ken

By inserting the button from the Paypal widget in the Designs Gallery it will handle all of this for you, follow the steps in the Widget Guide, it takes you through step by step. When you click Insert it will automatically create a placeholder and insert into it the code that has been provided by Paypal.

Alternatively draw a rectangle, right click it, select Web Properties > Placeholder tab and in the Replace with HTML code field paste the code you've copied from Paypal (iasumming you've not inserted it by the widget).

The reason you're getting the 'unformatted text' option is because you've not pasted the code into a placeholder, you're pasting some text from your clipboard into the document so it's asking you what you want to do with this text.