Cant seem to override product image size

[gary in jersey]

for a second template i created to display secondary products, i would like a thumnail size image.

I marked the product image size <!-- NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEHEIGHT --><!-- NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEWIDTH -->,

and all images displayed as expected, the 150x150 they actually are,

then in the second temp that i want to display a thumb i added <img src="NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE" height="75" width="75" />

this does not work. how come...?

[NormanRouxel]

NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE is a call to expand Act_ProductImage.html.

Put Act_ProductImage.html back to its original code and try replacing (in your Product Template) NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE
with

<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE -->
<IMG SRC="NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEFILE" width=75>

PS If you leave out the height=75 then you will get properly scaled 75px wide images regardless of the size / aspect ratio of the image. If you know all your images are square then it's best to put in the height field as it helps browsers lay out the page quicker.

[gary in jersey]

thanks again norman

worked fine, todays quest to create a different image for the front page every time the page loads, (random better, will settle for in an ordered fasion if it is much less work) off to source some info on this....!

[NormanRouxel]

I did a patch that does just that a week or two ago. It's on the Forum at http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=16995. See item #17.

[gary in jersey]

can i do exactly the same for the section image

the abouve fix referencing the imagefile does not work for section templates,
is there a variation on this..?

[NormanRouxel]

Which of the 2 above posts are you referring to?

[gary in jersey]

sorry norman

ive made another section template and im in the same situation wanting to insert a thumb image but cant find a way to size the section image down from my regular 150x150 in other sections

[NormanRouxel]

The NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEFILE is only valid within Act_SectionNavImage.html and cannot be used within custom SectionLine templates. You'll have to do the obvious and use smaller images for these Section links.

Alternatively (and it's a horrible hack) would be to use JavaScript to alter the sizes. E.g. In your custom SectionLine template replace

NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONIMAGE

with

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONIMAGE'.replace(/=\d+/g, "=25"));
//-->
</script>

and change that 25 to the size you want for the width and height.

[gary in jersey]

thanks will resize images

wiil probably never change them anyway so ill only have to do it once.
my only concern was that adding more and more images every time i do any changes(and im talking over a long period) will slow the upload time down ,
i dont really know how much affect this may have, i guess theres sites out there with a lot more images than i will ever have...

[NormanRouxel]

Adding more images, products, etc shouldn't have any sigificant impact on upload times as Actinic only uploads new images, and changed pages on an Upload. Existing images and pages that haven't changed are simply left in place.

It's only Refresh that re-uploads everything and that isn't usually ever needed unless you have server problems.

[gary in jersey]

still puzzled

resized an image to 60x60 and placed it in new section temp, now its getting stretched out to 150x150 dont know where it could be getting this call,
act_sectionimage is origonal, and the new temp looks ok to me....

<!-- SectionLine HTML begin -->
<!-- Insert HTML for the beginning of a section title -->
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONIMAGE NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONTEXT -->
<link href="actinic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />




<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- Insert HTML for the end of a section title -->
<table width="95%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="thinred2">
<tr>
<td width="60" height="60">NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONIMAGE </td>
<td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr bgcolor="#CDEEFF">
<td width="15" height="30"></td>
<td><p><A HREF="NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK"><span class="lightblueheader">NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONNAME</span></A></p></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#ECF9FF">
<td height="30">&nbsp;</td>
<td><A HREF="NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK"><img src="button_view_section.gif" width="125" height="22" border="0" /></A></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT
<!-- SectionLine HTML end -->


you can see this minus the image file here http://www.newblades.co.uk/acatalog/...s_by_size.html

[gary in jersey]

sorry fixed

had edited act_sectionNavimage, and forgot

dare say im now going to find out why i edited this file wreckon im going to find a lot of oversized images now...