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Using Alternate images in Rapido

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Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
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Posted on 17/10/2019 09:36:48

Hi guys,

I have started using the Alternate images in a few of our new solutions and I believe there are some things that might need fixing.

First of all, if you use Alternate images, the "No image" will never show up. That's because the system will always return a value for the default Image, even if the file itself does not exist.

Secondly, if you have 2 images defined in alternate images, the carousel of thumbnails will show 3 thumbnails. That's becauase the main image thumbnail is separate from the Alternative Images loop.

If I am missing some settings to prevent the above, please let me know. I could not find them.

All of the above findings were encountered in Rapido 3.1. I have not tested them against Rapido 3.2. And that's mainly because Rapido 3.2 is still using the old Image approach.

Thank you,

Adrian


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 22/10/2019 14:17:48
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Hi Adrian

Rapido has some logic related to images that will handle fallback - so you have to change that logic in order to see what you need.

Rapido 3.2 and DW9.7.2 has a lot of changes related to image patterns as well. So maybe take that as a base.

BR Nicolai

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 17/11/2019 16:30:40
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Hi Nicolai,

Coming back to this topic.

How is the PIM ImageCategories property implemented?

I see it in the backend in PIM but I need to use it in font-end as well since those categories make sense to be displayed separately.

I could not find any Loop nor any property on the LoopItems in GetLoop("Details")

Thank you,
Adrian

 
Steffen Kruse Hansen Dynamicweb Employee
Steffen Kruse Hansen
Posted on 18/11/2019 10:50:13
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Hi Adrian,

It depends on your Dynamicweb version if you have access to the Loop in the template, so you need to run at least 9.7.0.

https://doc.dynamicweb.com/template-tags/ecommerce/product-catalog/product/imagecategories

If you are not able to upgrade, it could probably be achieved by using the API, but it doesn't look like it's super simple

 

Best regards,

Steffen

 

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 18/11/2019 14:13:07
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Hi Steffen,

Thank you for the details. That's what I was expecting.

I am using 9.6.3 in my solution and that's why I could not find it so far.

I will try to upgrade and try again.

Thank you,

Adrian

 

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