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    Help Me Understand Image Type vs Legacy Product Thumbnails

    I probably poorly stated my question earlier (in this thread) so let me try this:

    How do I tell my category pages (CTGY) to display an image type from Image Machine instead of the legacy thumbnail? This video is great, but it only addresses point-n-click mode. I'm using advanced: http://www.mivamerchant.com/videos/s...-category-page

    I also found a reference for using Toolkit Function 145 (customimage, post by WCW), I tried that quickly but that didn't work. Since I believe there must be a more straightforward solution, I abandoned the idea of tinkering with that until it works and just came here instead. Any help?

    Here's a screenshot attached of my CTGY Product List Layout Tab in advanced mode. I've circled the stuff I believe to be important. I am thinking maybe there's a template change I need to make, but I can't find any instruction on this.

    What have I done wrong, what do I need to do? Is my quest a reasonable one? Many thanks!

    Mark
    Last edited by Mark Stephens; 08-25-14, 04:03 PM.

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    Re: Help Me Understand Image Type vs Legacy Product Thumbnails

    cssui?


    http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...t=pr8+template
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      #3
      Re: Help Me Understand Image Type vs Legacy Product Thumbnails

      mmui?
      http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...chine+template
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        Re: Help Me Understand Image Type vs Legacy Product Thumbnails

        MMUI.

        I appreciate your effort, Mark, but sadly the thread doesn't address the CTGY page. Only PROD.

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          I should point out, I have this in the CTGY head tag, too
          Code:
          <mvt:item name="ctgy_imagemachine" param="head" />
          Discovered that through this post
          http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...557#post403557

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            Re: Help Me Understand Image Type vs Legacy Product Thumbnails

            Originally posted by Mark Stephens View Post
            I should point out, I have this in the CTGY head tag, too
            Code:
            <mvt:item name="ctgy_imagemachine" param="head" />
            Discovered that through this post
            http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...557#post403557
            I'm not so sure anyone ever typed out the actual directions for doing this with mmui so maybe Miva can chime in

            It doesn't look like you have the ctgy_imagemachine item actually assigned in the list of items. You should be able to slightly modify the cssui directions with just changing the item names. You also need to have added the css required and this item is the cssui version which needs to be in the foreach loop of the products.

            <mvt:item name="category_listing_imagemachine" param="body:product:id" />
            maybe it's something like
            <mvt:item name="ctgy_listing_imagemachine" param="body:product:id" />

            you should see these tabs but it looks like you only have the dimensions tab
            Last edited by Mark Hood; 08-26-14, 09:49 AM.
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              Thanks Mark, you're being helpful and I appreciate that.

              So I have to point out conflicting information I've found about assigning the image machine to CTGY. In a comment on this thread,
              http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...904#post420904, according to Brennan at Miva Merchant: "The image machine only needs to be assigned to a page when you need the multiple image/swatch functionality, otherwise it should never be assigned."

              I don't need the multiple images function on CTGY, just the thumbnail. So I'm thoroughly confused as to what I need to do get a thumbnail on my CTGY screens in a MMUI store using an image generated by Image Machine. And I think it's a reasonable quest, surely others have done this, so I do hope Miva Merchant can enlighten me.

              I'll study the instructions for CSSUI as well.

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                Re: Help Me Understand Image Type vs Legacy Product Thumbnails

                Update (for posterity)

                I believe my troubles are originating with Sebenza's Category Template Manager, which is a module I've been using for a long, long time and didn't think about earlier. Even though I have the latest version of it, there may be a conflict. Don't know, don't care.

                Instead, I just now learned about Additional Display Pages! Perfect solution. I copied the code from one of my templates in the Category Template Manager, gave it a code of CTGY2, dialed it in with the appropriate image machine stuff, and then applied one my categories to have an Alternate Display Page of CTGY2. And that behaves exactly as I expect . . . and want. Since it doesn't reference the Category Template Manager, my suspicion is there's a conflict with that module. But with Additional Display Pages, don't need it anyway. I learned something good today.

                Now I deserve a shot of tequila.

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