I split this into a new topic into a separate thread, because its not related to the new release pending in any way ...
swamphox wrote:I would be interested to see how others have incorporated an buy button into their toolbar.
Sure, but keep in mind this isn't even an official beta yet, and the toolbar has been available two days?
swamphox wrote:In X2 you had no less than 4 ways to apply a buy now, shopping cart icon or some sort of link and it was very easy to add the link to the purchase site as you can see in the attachment. I am curious as to why in past versions, especially in X2, there were so many ways to allow linking to a shopping cart/ecommerce and in X3 it is non-existent.
Ok, it seems you are a bit early in estimating what X3 can and cannot do. First of all, I would like to breakdown this feature in X2: It's a button, with a shopping-cart icon, where you can assign a link. Nothing more, nothing less. Technically, except for having a shopping-cart icon, it's not really anything e-commerce anyway ... It just allows you to assign a custom link, and in your case, I assume you have some kinda system in place.
X3 Toolbar + image-sharing
First of all, did you click the help button for "toolbar items" in settings to see what you can do? The toolbar, which is used for sharing or anything you want, also affects the image-sharing button. I quickly added this from
settings.toolbar.items:
Yay, a sweet-looking buy button. What about the link? That is even easier, as you don't need to create it for each image. It's dynamic:
{
"id": "cart",
"icon": "shopping-cart",
"label": "Shop This!",
"url": "http://somewebsite/?image={{image_url}}",
"color": "#222222"
},
If you see the URL parameter above, it now can open a link, and dynamically include the image url as a parameter. No more having to create links separately for each image! How does this compare with X2? I would say hands-down victory to X3.
Oh, and if you REALLY want to create links per-image, why not just add them to the image-description?
I really don't see how, with some creativity, you can't make this work at least just as good as X2.