Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

I'm trying to link to pedigree details on the system but the url route on grassroots seems to change between sessions. Is there a way to send a link that will directly lead to the animal details without screenshotting the page or the recipient having to search the pedigree names/numbers?

As far as I know you have to search each animal. To find a herd enter the breeders membership number in breeder or owner.

I'm trying to cut out the search stage, but keep it interactive for the customer, to use in conjunction with the beef scheme.

Grassroots isn't the best at times, you need to know your way around it. Are you trying to let beef customers find members, not really sure what you mean.

Well each steer is supposed to have it's own number that links to the certificate but most customers can't be bothered getting their head around the search system - I would have thought that each beef steer should have it's own 'certificate', even if just a digital one, but can't really see how to do it without either having the customer search the system or produce one myself but that seems quite labour intensive. Not that many customers will want to trace the pedigree, but it's extra, visible assurance.

Rob do your customers bother about the certificate or do you just show them anyway.

Put the steer N 5 digit number in the reg number on the animal search, is that what you mean.

It seems to work for me. Found a couple of animals on system cut and pasted the links, shut programmes down, cleared browsing history then clicked on a pasted link and it bought the correct animal up. But then nobody is updating the database on a Sunday so will have a go over the next week - assuming that I understand your problem correctly?

Just try this link and see what you get; https://www.grassroots.co.uk/cgi-bin/ht ... 3389358346

It was working for me last night but this morning it takes me to http://grassroots.co.uk/

Rob R wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 4:48 pm Just try this link and see what you get; https://www.grassroots.co.uk/cgi-bin/ht ... 3389358346

It was working for me last night but this morning it takes me to http://grassroots.co.uk/

Yes, I have just retried my links and am getting the same result - they send me to the grassroots page. Perhaps the explanation lies here????

http://php.net/manual/en/features.persi ... ctions.php

Jac wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 5:59 pm

Rob R wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 4:48 pm Just try this link and see what you get; https://www.grassroots.co.uk/cgi-bin/ht ... 3389358346

It was working for me last night but this morning it takes me to http://grassroots.co.uk/

Yes, I have just retried my links and am getting the same result - they send me to the grassroots page. Perhaps the explanation lies here????

http://php.net/manual/en/features.persi ... ctions.php

Yes, that does seem to be what is happening. I'm not sure where that leaves me, short of saying to customers that they need to search the number, which isn't going to work as people increasingly want to spend as little time as possible reading text and working out search processes - much more reliable if they can just click a link you send them.

Copyright issues aside? What you could do is create a link page with a screen dump from the grassroots page of the chosen animal that way your user wouldn't know any different.

Yes, true, and that might be what I have to do, I was just hoping that there was a technical fix. The other option is to create a PDF of the page and have that as a file download. I had assumed that because we mark the beef scheme animals in deaths that this would be automatically generated, but if it is, I can't find it.

Jac wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 8:33 pm Copyright issues aside? What you could do is create a link page with a screen dump from the grassroots page of the chosen animal that way your user wouldn't know any different.

I've resolved to do this, as a PDF download, at least for the time being.

Have you tried doing a Post / Get request to the search box? Maybe you could automate a request through the link instead, and not have to worry about the PDC issue.