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1/ Install, activate and test module amazontools
as the module is a prerequisite for Amazon filter.
2/ Go to Administer > Site Configuration > Amazon.
Select a country and type in your associate id.
[Save configuration]
3/ Install and activate Amazon filter.
4/ Go to Administer > Site Configuration > Input formats.
Configure format Full HTML.
Under Filters, switch on [.] amazon filter
[Save configuration]
5/ Go to Administer > Content management > Content types.
Edit Page.
Under workflow, switch on Allow Amazon.com related product link.
You can now use Amazon links in any Page set to input type Full HTML.
6/ Go to Administer > Content management > Content.
Edit a Page and add the following three lines of text at the top of the page.
[amazon title B0007M123K]
[amazon cover B0007M123K]
[amazon info B0007M123K]
You now have links to a product at Amazon.
After testing Amazon links you might switch on the links for other input types and content types.
Experiment with title, cover, and info.
Books have an ISBN and all other products at Amazon have an ASIN. When you browse
products, you see the ISBN or the ASIN. Use the ISBN-10 or the ASIN exactly as
displayed on the Amazon site. The following tag works.
[amazon title B0007M123K]
Whoever wrote the Amazon ASIN checking routine must be from a Unix background
because the following tag, using normal lower case, does not work.
[amazon title b0007m123k]
Amazon publishes the new ISBN-13 after the old ISBN-10 but the ISBN-13 numbers
do not yet work in the Amazon system. Both of the following fail.
[amazon title 978-0671039721]
[amazon title 9780671039721]