Help Please- Problems with Image Machine on Category Page
Hello everyone,
I am on my MIVA PR8-5.5 CSSUI development site. I am upgrading from my MMUI site so I have legacy images.
I am having problems with category and sub category pages displaying product images using image machine. I took and passed the developer training level 1 session, so I am somewhat familiar with all this. I have watched the image machine lesson videos many, many times as well as the helpful ones by Brennen Heyde including his one on Image Management Utility which I enabled.
I am completely lost on how to get the image machine to display the images on the Category and sub-category pages.
I enabled ctgy_imagemachine on CTGY page items. I entered my dimensions on category product list image machine dimensions tab. I have tried adding a new image and giving it the type of both main and also default and checking the custom product field for main or default but neither worked. I put in a new image under additional images on a product that had not previously had one and no image shows up on the category page but it does show up on the product page.
From my experiments it appears that the only image being called on the category page are the legacy thumbnail images.
I found this link in the forums
http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/forums/showthread.php?109355-Adding-Category-Product-List-Image-Machine&highlight=image+machine
and put the code below in my category page head code. (I can not find any other references to image machine on the category page code or the category product list layout code so I am thinking something is wrong with my code)
<mvt:item name="ctgy_imagemachine" param="head" />
I had to change category_listing_imagemachine in my code above to ctgy_image machine as there is not a category_listing_imagemachine choice on the category pages items tab. My assumption was things changed for the newer version I am working in.... OR should I have a choice under items tab for category_listing_imagemachine ???? - this could be my whole problem!!!
Please, someone let me know on this. I have spent days trying to figure this out to no avail. It is so frustrating.
Thank you!
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I am on my MIVA PR8-5.5 CSSUI development site. I am upgrading from my MMUI site so I have legacy images.
I am having problems with category and sub category pages displaying product images using image machine. I took and passed the developer training level 1 session, so I am somewhat familiar with all this. I have watched the image machine lesson videos many, many times as well as the helpful ones by Brennen Heyde including his one on Image Management Utility which I enabled.
I am completely lost on how to get the image machine to display the images on the Category and sub-category pages.
I enabled ctgy_imagemachine on CTGY page items. I entered my dimensions on category product list image machine dimensions tab. I have tried adding a new image and giving it the type of both main and also default and checking the custom product field for main or default but neither worked. I put in a new image under additional images on a product that had not previously had one and no image shows up on the category page but it does show up on the product page.
From my experiments it appears that the only image being called on the category page are the legacy thumbnail images.
I found this link in the forums
http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/forums/showthread.php?109355-Adding-Category-Product-List-Image-Machine&highlight=image+machine
and put the code below in my category page head code. (I can not find any other references to image machine on the category page code or the category product list layout code so I am thinking something is wrong with my code)
<mvt:item name="ctgy_imagemachine" param="head" />
I had to change category_listing_imagemachine in my code above to ctgy_image machine as there is not a category_listing_imagemachine choice on the category pages items tab. My assumption was things changed for the newer version I am working in.... OR should I have a choice under items tab for category_listing_imagemachine ???? - this could be my whole problem!!!
Please, someone let me know on this. I have spent days trying to figure this out to no avail. It is so frustrating.
Thank you!
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