Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

[gmanning]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

I can't seem to get the imagemachine to resize my main_image. I have addes to the head:

<mvt:item name="product_display_imagemachine" param="head" />  

I have assigned the item to the PROD page:

product_display_imagemachine  

And I have made the template adjustments (though I upgraded to beta 3 and I think that made the changes anyway).

The only way I can get any image to display is if I set the legacy fallback image to Full-Sized.

Any ideas?

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Go to the Image Machine tab on your PROD page, do you have it enabled? Did you make the necessary CSS changes too?

[gmanning]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

I do have it enabled on the Product Display Layout Image Machine tab. I also have added the CSS styles from the 1st page in this thread to the cssui.css file.

EDIT :

I added an additional image to one product and i saw some of the functionality at work.

For now, I am just trying to get the main_image to work, not any swatches or additional images. I have loaded up large images for each product and they are referenced in the Full-Size product field. I just want to get the resized using the image machine.

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

The Image Machine will not do anything to images uploaded to the legacy full size or thumbnail locations.

[gmanning]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

The Image Machine will not do anything to images uploaded to the legacy full size or thumbnail locations.

Ahhhh, that explains the issue then!

Is there a way to import additional images for all SKU's in a feed format?

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

You could add any of the "_imagemachine" items to a new page and assign the item and add the head and body mvt:item calls to the template. Switching the component into advanced mode enables you to turn on individual product image types for display.

On the component's settings tab, you'll need to check the boxes next to the image types you want available and add the template variables within the foreach loop.

&mvt:product:imagetypes:YOUR_IMAGE_TYPE_CODE;

This would give you predictable results as long as you have each product's correct image assigned the type you want to display.

Regards,

I'm still trying to do this and I am wondering if perhaps I wasn't clear enough about what I am trying to do and perhaps it's not possible.

I use the ultimate feed generator module to export products to an xml file. With the new features of PR8 I no longer have a thumbnail image to export.

[alexwh]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

With the example below, there is a clear distinction between the functionality of the multiple image thumbnails and the attribute option swatches.

http://preston.coolcommerce.net/mm5/...ru_impreza_sti

Regards,

Can I get a copy of the product page layout coding you used for this example?

Regards,
Alex

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Can I get a copy of the product page layout coding you used for this example?

Regards,
Alex

It looks like the standard template provided in the first couple post of this topic.

[lvalesko]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

We need to control the delimiter and have been told that PR8 will allow us to do this.

Is this true?

If so, when will PR8 be out of Beta?

Thanks!

Any update on this??

Thanks!

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Same response as last time:

Yes that's true.

No eta other than as soon as we can.

If you need this feature today you should upgrade to the Beta. We're running our live store on it, and there's roughly 250 or so other live stores running on it.

[lvalesko]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Same response as last time:



If you need this feature today you should upgrade to the Beta. We're running our live store on it, and there's roughly 250 or so other live stores running on it.

If I can control the delimiter in Beta will I still be able to when it's out of Beta or is there a chance that function could be lost or changed when it comes out of Beta?

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Yes you can control it in the beta and know it will not change. You'll be able to upgrade from the Beta to Production upon release.

[alexwh]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

I can get the main image and additional images to swap and enlarge correctly. I can't get the swatches to display (I've added all the code in this thread). I am defining swatch images at the attribute option level?

Regards,
Alex

[pbrynie]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

I can get the main image and additional images to swap and enlarge correctly. I can't get the swatches to display (I've added all the code in this thread). I am defining swatch images at the attribute option level?

Regards,
Alex

If you're working with a store that has been updated to PR8, you'll need to edit the Product Attribute Template on PROD in order to handle the new attribute type "swatch-select". You'll also need an HTML element with the ID of "swatches" somewhere above the Attribute Machine body tag. There are posts in this thread that contain all of the necessary template changes.

Regards,

[lvalesko]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Our store is currently running on PR7. If we move up to the PR8 beta will there be any changes made to our current store? Don't want it going down or acting weird!

Just hoping it's as simple as upgrading to PR8 with no additional work or worries.

Thanks!