Controlling thumbnails

[gsam]

I have an image type with a description of 'Category Image' and code of 'cat'. I use the image type on my Category pages. How do I prevent the image type from showing up on the Product page?

Maybe a better question would be how can we control which images to include on the product page. I might have a product image that was created around a Christmas theme and another with a Valentine theme. I may only want to display the images at certain times of the year and I don't want to have to load and remove product images. Can we have an inventory of images and then control which images will be included on the product page?

[mcrmedical]

In our site we check for the image type in the image machine code on PROD and skip showing the ones we don't want shown. For us, these image type codes are hard coded, unfortunately.

For seasonal things we activate on our site, we've used the ready themes in a variety of ways. We use ready theme content items as a way to set a variable (g.forexample), add the ready theme item to the appropriate page templates, add code the page to check for the variable, and then turn the ready theme content item off and on. Basically, we've created a switch for certain features on the site that turns on images and adds content. For example, if a variable is set we may display certain images (like fireworks for Independence Day) and activate pop up messages. So, maybe you could use this type of method creatively with an image type naming convention to get what you want.

[gsam]

Thanks for the tip.