Effective
with Release 63, the National Office will no longer be making updates
to the "Quick Finder Component".
The Quick Finder component will allow the consumer to search for air, car, hotel, cruise and Dynamic Packages availability without accessing the advanced search screens. Quick Finder was developed to reduce the click path and allow the user to quickly get to the desired page.
Quick Finder was also designed with flexibility in mind. Clubs can use this new component to replace the current Fare Finder Tool or place on their own web site in the location of their choice.
The minimum search criteria to complete the search is displayed to the user within the Quick Finder screen. Each Quick Finder has the "Advanced Search Options" link that will direct the user to the search criteria page for the functionality selected. When the Quick Finder buttons for Fare Finder, Car Finder, Hotel Finder or Cruise Finder are selected, the appropriate destination search options are displayed for that functionality. In addition, the default dates displayed for each of the Quick Finders will default to the dates currently being used for the other Air, Car, Hotel and Cruise functionality throughout the site. The Flight Tracker functionality will remain at the bottom of the screen for each Quick Finder.
The Quick Finder functionality can be placed on any application or static page. The placement of the functionality on the page is also controlled by the club. The size of the Quick Finder screen is designed to fit in a height of 400 pixels and width of 270 pixels. The content within the screen itself is maintained by the Association Enhanced Site application and is not club configurable, but does reference the services.css style sheet. See the SETUP section below for new style sheet entries. These new entries have already been appended to your club's services.css Style Sheet with the implementation of Release 29.
With the Implementation of Release 45, clubs can now add Dynamic Packaging to the QuickFinder functionality. Please see Dynamic Packaging for additional information.
Below are instructions for both Association Enhanced Site and Independent clubs that want to implement links on their web site.
The following new classes have been added to the services.css Style Sheet to support the Quick Finder functionality. These new classes have been appended to your club's Style Sheet with the implementation of Release 29. Below are the two new classes and their default settings.
}
/* SETTING FOR LABELS SUCH AS TEXT BOX, DROP DOWNS, INPUT FIELD LABELS THAT NEED TO BE SMALLER THAN FIELDLABEL SIZE*/
.fieldlabelsmall, .FIELDLABELSMALL
{
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 8pt;
font-weight : bold;
color : black;
}
/* SETTINGS FOR LINKS ON PAGES THAT NEED TO BE SMALLER THAN LINK SIZE . */
.linksmall, .LINKSMALL
{
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 8pt;
font-weight : normal;
color: black;
}
.linksmall:visited
{ color: black;
}
.linksmall:active
{ color: black;
}
.linksmall:hover
{ color: black;
}
<IFRAME src="<APPREF PAGENAME=QuickFinder MODE=URLONLY></APPREF>" frameborder=0 height=400 width=270 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
</IFRAME>
<IFRAME src="http://www.aaa.com/scripts/WebObjects.dll/AAAOnline?association=XXX&club=###&page=QuickFinder &userid=encrypted userid&memid=encrypted memid" frameborder=0 height=400 width=270 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
</IFRAME>
To bypass the Enhanced Site login, Independent clubs need to pass the encrypted userid and memid within the URL. This application is designed to use the current "Remote Sign In" functionality established for the Air application in Release 22. Independent clubs that have implemented the Remote SignIn functionality should not have to make any changes to their site.
Clubs can also create their own Custom Quick Search component. Custom Quick Search will allow clubs to build a user interface to initiate Air, Car, Hotel and Cruise searches (comparable to AAA.com's Quick Finder). Clubs will have the ability to design the "look and feel" as well as the size and positioning of search function on their web site. The Custom Club Quick Search document will provide the values required to be passed to all of the individual applications.
With the implementation of Release 45, clubs can now add Dynamic Packaging to their Custom Quick Search. The Custom Club Quick Search Dynamic Packaging document will provide the values required to be passed for all of the individual packages.
For clubs that wish to force a login at the time the users enters the initial search criteria from their Custom Quick Search component a new page has been created. The new "QuickSearchSignIn" page will force the user to sign in prior to the search results being displayed. Using the Custom Club Quick Search document, the QuickSearchSignIn page name should replace the current QuickSearch page name on any module where clubs doesn't want to relax the login. The new QuickSearchSignIn page does work with the remote login functionality.