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    Working on a dev site and I discovered why images didn't show up in categories, nothing set to main. Set a few to "main" on a couple of product pages and now the large image view works and they are working in the categories. Now the issue, over 1,000 products, please tell me there is a way to assign the top listed image on each product as "main" or ill be working on this manually lord knows how long.

    Thanks
    Last edited by Datagg; 09-30-15, 11:44 AM. Reason: added
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    Re: Set images to main in bulk

    Originally posted by Datagg View Post
    Working on a dev site and I discovered why images didn't show up in categories, nothing set to main. Set a few to "main" on a couple of product pages and now the large image view works and they are working in the categories. Now the issue, over 1,000 products, please tell me there is a way to assign the top listed image on each product as "main" or ill be working on this manually lord knows how long.

    Thanks
    Did you already have them set up as a image type of a different name? If so you can export/import the data.

    Otherwise I would consider changing the way the image is called into the template to be the old way. Move forward with always using the image types though because in the long run it makes life much easier.
    Last edited by Mark Hood; 09-30-15, 12:35 PM.
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      #3
      Re: Set images to main in bulk

      Originally posted by Mark Hood View Post
      Did you already have them set up as a image type of a different name? If so you can export/import the data.

      Otherwise I would consider changing the way the image is called into the template to be the old way.
      Hi mark. No they were never set to anything... that wasn't a necessary thing from the old days, and current we just added images to the image machine with no placement. This really tosses a huge monkey wrench into this for us, i wanted to stop making manual thumbs, etc and just have everything done from one image and be done with it, Damn!!. Looks like im gonna just have to have a party here with everyone assigning "main" to top images. So hoping there was a quick way to address this. Oh well.

      On a dev site can more than one active user be logged in without being socked for chairs?..
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        On a dev site can more than one active user be logged in without being socked for chairs?..
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          Re: Set images to main.

          Hi Dan, we exported products and large images from the live site, created an export from the dev site for Products and included the Main Image Type (it will be empty). Then we copied the image path of the large images from the live site export and placed them into the "Main" column and imported to dev. Assuming you are not changing the names of the large images in the new store and that your products/codes are the same in each store it is easy to copy and paste. Then image machine will take over when someone visits the page. I hope this helps.
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            Re: Set images to main.

            Originally posted by 1873Peacemaker View Post
            Hi Dan, we exported products and large images from the live site, created an export from the dev site for Products and included the Main Image Type (it will be empty). Then we copied the image path of the large images from the live site export and placed them into the "Main" column and imported to dev. Assuming you are not changing the names of the large images in the new store and that your products/codes are the same in each store it is easy to copy and paste. Then image machine will take over when someone visits the page. I hope this helps.
            I think his problem is that he was already using the image machine for images but they never specified any image types making it much more difficult to export any data. I would venture a guess that Miva has a way maybe?
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              Re: Set images to main.

              Hi Kristin, thanks sounds like a solid plan. The only hickup I can see (perhaps im wrong) is that 75% of all my products have multiple images. So doing your method, wouldn't that make all the images "main".. As I wouldn't know necessarily up front which one was the top image for each product. Making them all "main" wouldn't that be a bad thing? I always new, and was the most worried about was these images once going over to the other side. I must admit that the export, and import thing never worked for me and always caused issues and frankly it scares the crap outta me.
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                #8
                Re: Set images to main.

                Mark is absolutely right. I would hope and pray Miva had some type of solution. That would make things so much easier as this just has my head in the clouds. I have reached out, yet as of this point haven't heard anything back.

                Thanks guys.
                Dan

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                  #9
                  Re: Set images to main.

                  Dan,

                  You'll need to create more Image Types. Then you will be able to assign the additional images. The only probably I have found with this method is for some reason when the images paths are imported, it doesn't keep "main" as the first image, or the second second, third third, ect. I would be a very happy girl if there was some way for the import assignment to understand that.

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                    Re: Set images to main.

                    Originally posted by lesliekirk View Post
                    Dan,

                    You'll need to create more Image Types. Then you will be able to assign the additional images. The only probably I have found with this method is for some reason when the images paths are imported, it doesn't keep "main" as the first image, or the second second, third third, ect. I would be a very happy girl if there was some way for the import assignment to understand that.

                    Leslie
                    Leslie, How does he get the image location out of his current system when no image types were ever specified?


                    The only probably I have found with this method is for some reason when the images paths are imported, it doesn't keep "main" as the first image, or the second second, third third,


                    When you import images do not do them all at once. Import just the main image column first (make sure you don't import any other images so you're ignoring all the other image columns).

                    Then do a second import for all the other images (or in the order you want them).

                    This will make it so that main is always the first image... When it imports images all at once it actually does them in order by the name of the image (pretty confident in that)
                    Last edited by Mark Hood; 10-01-15, 12:17 PM.
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                      Re: Set images to main.

                      Hi Leslie,

                      Not too sure what you mean. I did actually try to tackle this issue early last year I believe, and with Miva's help they created a few different types, like "CTGY thumbs", and another I believe... yet the entire plan fell flat as they couldn't get it to work. I just wanted to allow the image machine to do its thing so I didn't have to create additional images, like my thumbs that were all manually done. Thus calling for them via those folders. At the end I got image machine to work, but at this point it was just uploading images the non legacy way and that ended up working. Of course we still had to make separate thumbs, and go back thru all the past products and upload that way also. Wow what a few months that was...

                      At the end of the day i just wanted, well was hoping this would all work when heading to the other side... Took me a bit to figure out why zooms, or thumbs didn't show up in new theme.. Stumbled to a product, assigned it as "main" and bang it loaded up and zoom worked and it appeared on CTGY page. It was then my head began to spin as there are 1,000 plus products.. So this is the point im at now. Sorry for the history speech, but damn there certainly is allot of it, that's for sure.

                      Thanks all.
                      Dan

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                        #12
                        Re: Set images to main.

                        Mark, all has been imported already into dev by Jim last week. Actually, it was a carbon copy of site. Then i converted, then applied theme. Not sure if that changes anyhing or not at this point.
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                          Originally posted by Datagg View Post
                          Mark, all has been imported already into dev by Jim last week. Actually, it was a carbon copy of site. Then i converted, then applied theme. Not sure if that changes anything or not at this point.
                          Sort of does. There is still no way to automatically assign the image types without being able to get them into some sort of import file. Even then if the image is already in the image machine without assignment I'd be afraid it would copy a new version and double all your images.

                          Perhaps it would be easier just to change the way the image is being called in short of having an image assignment party. (Do it the way you used to)
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                            #14
                            Re: Set images to main.

                            Originally posted by Mark Hood View Post
                            Sort of does. There is still no way to automatically assign the image types without being able to get them into some sort of import file. Even then if the image is already in the image machine without assignment I'd be afraid it would copy a new version and double all your images.

                            Perhaps it would be easier just to change the way the image is being called in short of having an image assignment party. (Do it the way you used to)
                            That's just the thing.. I want to get out of that method and use the in box features of the new setup. My live site is riddled with mods, upon mods, code changes, etc since the very earliest of days. Its gotten so convoluted I ache to just use a setup without jumping thru hoops. That was the plan at least.

                            Do you Mark or anyone else know if there is a seat restriction on a dev site before you pay for extra chairs. Looks like (unless there is no way to set top images to "main") im going to have to speed this massive undertaking up by having a few in there at a pop.

                            Thanks for all your help guys.
                            Last edited by Datagg; 10-01-15, 01:45 PM.
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