Also Bought Lists as Thumbnails

[oracle]

Does anyone know how to make the items in the Also Bought List on the Shopping Cart page display with thumbnail images as well as text?

[pinbrook]

I'm just about to tackle this, as I agree the also boughts and related currently display full sized images whereas they should be thumbs.

My investigation so far has lead me to Normans PHP image resizer (documented in AUG). I shall be trying this today or tomorrow, so I will report back.

The thing that has puzzled me in my research was the images in bestseller mini list manages to resize by simply putting width=75

<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageFileName" />" width="75" alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" />

but if I apply width="75" to

<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageFileName" />"
border="0"
width="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageWidth" />"
height="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageHeight" />"
alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" />

which is the image code in the related products, it changes the width without the height.

So my question is How does the bestseller image get resized, as it does get resized correctly.

[wjcampbe]

Jo,

When you apply the 75 - do you also remove the height assignment?

[oracle]

I'm only getting a list - no images at all, big or small. I phoned tech support - they couldn't get it to work so I'm waiting for them to come back to me.

[RuralWeb]

I'm only getting a list - no images at all, big or small.

I didnt even know there was supposed to be images at all!! All the sites I have they just show as text - is there an option needs checking?

[pinbrook]

Ok almost there

Design Tree - Standard Product Related Product Item, click to edit (same applies to also bought)

Remove comments <!-- ProductImageLayout -->

to get the image visible. Thats the easy bit.....

Design Tree "Standard ProductImage", right click, create new layout. Call it "Standard ProductImage75"

Edit new layout, change width to 75, remove Height (Thanks Bill!)

Now I'mstuck - how do I assign my new layout? test2.pinbrook.net

[RuralWeb]

Oh no - can there not be just a little box to tick

[pinbrook]

actually its easier than I made it....

go to settings, site options, Product, choose Mini Product Related Products Item, as the layout for related, repeat for also boughts.

Downside of this is a crappy layout in a column where it would be better to lay the items out side by side.

But thats for another day.

[completerookie]

image re-sizer:
take a look at a FreeWare product called IfanView - what this product can do with images is truly amazing, It can be worked on a single image or batch processing - things like reduce all sected images down to 75px high (but ignore those already less than 75px)
you can automatically append the 75px on the end so you know its the 75px version of the image, auto-renaming functionallity, place all the output images in other directories - the list goes on and on.

I've played with this for years and don't bother with any re-sizeing software (even Fireworks whch I use togenerate th original images) - its too hard to play with compared to IrfanView

[leehack]

I bought a fantastic colour manual on Photoshop CS2 and towards the back of this it introduces you to batch processing and putting watermarks on your images.

I used it for the first time yesterday to process about 140 images, resize them and watermark them. I was well impressed at the 3 minutes taken instead of the 2 or 3 hours it would have been normally. The top 10 or so images were poor to start with and the client is in the process of retaking these, but the ones below this were perfect.

Anyone interested on seeing this, can do so here http://www.birminghammodelcentre.co....derSpares.html.

[Donna Kempster]

Hi all,

Have gone to mini product layout which is great and commented out the description so only get name, price and image - which is fab. However, would really like to be able to run them in a row rather than their current column format. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where to start looking? I have looked at the layout in the design tree and within the library but it's all beyond me to be honest!

I really think we could get a better uplift in the basket if we could display it this way so any help would be really appreciated. Thanks D

[RuralWeb]

would really like to be able to run them in a row rather

Chris posted the solution a while ago and put it in the AUG is I remember correctly

[Donna Kempster]

Excellent thanks, I'll see what I can find. Have been search all day and found this post which was lovely and simple to implement for me! but couldn't find anything else. Found something that did some jiggery pokery with the cart but that was too scary! I'll take a look in the aug and see if I can work it out.

[Donna Kempster]

Hi, have had a look at the AUG and can only find reference to the use of thumbnails in the cart and using a thumbnail in mini lists (eg best sellers) but not chaging the layout of the also boughts once they are thumbnails.

Has anyone else found it in the AUG or done something similar and could point me in the right direction. I've looked at the layout for the also boughts in the design tab but I couldn't see how it was controlled and therefore how to change it to be a row.

Thanks D

[dallen]

Changing the layout of 'also bought'

go to design -> library -> layouts and expand the "Also Bought Lists" tree and double click on "Standard Product Also Bought List". In the new window click on the line that says "click here to edit list layout settings". Under the "Edit Rows and Columns" tab, then under "First/Middle/Last" note that Middle Rows - No of Items is set to "1". This means that it will put each item in the list on its own row. Change the "1" to "Dynamic". All items will be on a single row now.