Product Image Types = None

[MusicMan]

I have a client with close to 1MM products on his site. Over 77k products had their images uploaded without assigning an image type. Some products have multiple images too (all without an image type assigned).....
Is there a way to change at least one of those images assigned to "none" to "main" en mass rather than one at a time?

I can't help but think being able to export "IMAGE_TYPE:NONE" might somehow help....
You obviously can export "IMAGE_TYPE:MAIN" but is exporting "IMAGE_TYPE:NONE" even possible? Or on the list of things to add in future updates?

Thanks in advance!

[lesliekirk]

Re: Product Image Types = None

What I've done on a number of occasions it to remap the full-sized image field to the IMAGE_TYPE:MAIN in the import settings. I also create an Import just to reassign these.

[MusicMan]

Re: Product Image Types = None

Thanks for the quick reply Leslie!
I usually do the same thing too (take the legacy full size image and upload it to IMAGE_TYPE:MAIN).

The person who uploaded the images did the same thing (uploaded the Legacy full size image to additional images BUT without assigning an image type).

If I repeat the process and assign the image type MAIN, the image will be displayed on the product page twice (once for MAIN and once for NONE).
There's gotta be a fix for this???

[Brennan]

Re: Product Image Types = None

We've had to do something similar and we did it by writing a page template that outputs XML to update the image type.

Here is what we did at a high level:

1. Created a new page with the sitemap item assigned so we can have it loop through all products.
2. Then we used the toolkit function customimage to loop though all images and for the first image only output the XML to make it the main image type.
3. Import the XML via the standard XML import

The XML looks something like this:

<ProductImage_Update_Type product_code="test" filepath="graphics/00000001/s2k_silver_front.jpg" type_code="main" />

[MusicMan]

Re: Product Image Types = None

Hmmm.... Interesting idea.
I'll give that a try.

Thanks Brennan!