v8 doesn't seem to upload product thumbnails

[CarlSaunders]

I have thumbnail images of products stored in a thumbnails folder within the acatalog directory. In v7 Actinic automatically uploaded these images to the server. In v8 I have to upload all thumbnail images manually to the server. Is there a way to change this?

[Bruce]

Carl,

In the Design Tab click on a product image in the preview.

Locate the following code:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsProductImageDisplayed%22%20%2f%3e">
<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageFileName" />"
border="0"
width="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageWidth" />"
height="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageHeight" />"
alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" />
</actinic:block>

Replace all those lines with the following:

<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ProductImageFileName%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22%29%20
AND%20%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ProductThumbnailImageFileName%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22%22%29" >
<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageFileName" />" border="0"
width="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageWidth" />"
height="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageHeight" />" alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" />
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ProductThumbnailImageFileName%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductThumbnailImageFileName" />" alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" />
</actinic:block>

Apply the changes to the layout.

The layout will now use the 'Thumbnail' image, if available.

Kind regards,

[CarlSaunders]

Misunderstanding

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your reply, but that was not what I was asking. The problem I have is that thumbnail images do not upload automatically to a separate folder withing the acatalog directory on the server.

I do not want to use thumbnails on product pages. I want to use thumbnails only on search results pages. It is NOT a problem with displaying them. It is a problem with having to upload them manually to a different folder within acatalog.

v7 does it fine, but v8 doesn't.

[cdicken]

I'm afraid this is a known bug in Actinic v8, but it will be fixed in the next maintenance release - due out in a few weeks.