Coping with callbutton issues

Unless you are using the old pre-transition callbuttons (which stopped working but then later became active again), your flirt-installed callbuttons do not change status when you change status. Code for those callbuttons is no longer distributed.

The link to callbutton code on your My Account page no longer is present. The link on our listings has not been coded, and if you click it the page ends up being refreshed. The only way to get current callbutton codes for your listings is to open a listing as if to edit it, submit twice without editing (unless you need to edit, of course), then click the link on the page that also has links to your account and help in getting started.

A callbutton whose code is obtained in this way while you were available is static code. It will always be set to available, though customers cannot complete a call by clicking it when you are unavailable. It will not send mail when you are Away.

I got this button while I was available:

   <a href=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/calls/new?listing_id=5734291″ title=”Yes – Taking Calls”><img alt=”D5_cb-call-now-136x40_v5″ border=”0″ height=”40″ src=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/niteflirt/images/D5_cb-call-now-136x40_V5.gif” width=”136″ /></a>

A callbutton whose code was obtained while you were away is also static code. It is supposed to send mail, and cannot change to “taking calls”. But the server is left off the code, so it refers back to your own server, and actually can never do anything if you place it anywhere but on your Niteflirt page. And why would you need to do that? There already is a ‘send mail’ option on your pages.

I got this code while I was set to ‘Away’:

<a href=”/messages/compose?message%5Blisting_id%5D=5734291&message%5Brecipients_list%5D=Principal+Angela+Quattrano”><img alt=”D5_cb-mail-away-136x40_v4″ border=”0″ height=”40″ src=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/niteflirt/images/D5_cb-mail-away-136x40_V4.gif” width=”136″ /></a>

If someone were to try to click it to send me mail, the address it would try to send mail to is http://help4flirts.com/messages/compose?message%5Blisting_id%5D=5734291&message%5Brecipients_list%5D=Principal+Angela+Quattrano, which is definitely not a real email address.

With the pre-transition codes, both the image and your availability are controlled by the Niteflirt server, not by the button. So the image changes when your availability changes, as does what happens when the button is clicked.

This pre-transition callbutton displays my correct availability status:

<a href='http://www.niteflirt.com/calls/PT_interimcall.asp?sid=XXXXXXX'><img border=0 src='http://www.niteflirt.com/calls/callimage.asp?sid=XXXXXXX&ImageType=1'></a>

I have changed the listing SID number to a series of x’s. Just substitute your listing SID number (found in the url of your listing).