Thumbnails not showing

[bex]

Hi,

I'm sure im missing something really obvious, but am totally stuck on this one! I am trying to create a page of thumbnail section links. I have followed the instructions in the advanced users guide (several times!) but can't get it to work. I have put my products in subsections within sections, and have made sure the Act_SectionLine.html reads as the template in the guide -

<!-- SectionLine HTML begin -->
<!-- Insert HTML for the beginning of a section title -->

<DIV ALIGN="CENTER">

<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="5" WIDTH="160">
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREF="NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK">NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONIMAGE</A>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE">
<A HREF="NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK">
<B>NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONNAME</B></A><BR>
NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONTEXT
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

</DIV>
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT
<!-- Insert HTML for the end of a section title -->
<!-- SectionLine HTML end -->

I then checked 'Override Default Settings' in the layout tab of the section I want to use thumbs in and changed column counts to 3.

When I click on the section the links are in columns of three, but there is no thumbnail?

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks
Rebecca

[pinbrook]

URL please

[bex]

www.fabautoparts.co.uk

I havn't uploaded it yet though

thanks

[RuralWeb]

Have you put images in for the sections - if not then actinic will display an invisable gif

[bex]

Do you mean in the subsection under the page name?

[RuralWeb]

You need to define an image to be used for each section/subsection for then to be shown as thumbnails, without them you will just get text links

[leehack]

On any section you create Rebecca, there is an option to include an image. There is a specific field for it and it is just for this use. Are you using them?

[bex]

Yes, I am using them. I think im just being stupid Is the thumbnail image shown not the image that you put in the thumbnail section of the product? I can get the image I put in the sections to show, I just wouldnt call them thumbnails! I thought the thumbnails could only be up to 150 pixels? If I put a bigger imagen in, say 300 pixels it still shows?

[RuralWeb]

Thumbnails are used elsewhere - you need to put an image in the section - as lee says there is a field to put them in

[bex]

Ok, thanks

I was trying to cut a corner, but I guess that wouldn't work.

Thanks for your help

[RuralWeb]

I was trying to cut a corner

Then why not say that in your first post and save us all some time Messing people about will get you less help next time

[bex]

When I said that I wasn't trying to waste anyone's time - I just misunderstood how thumbnails were used in actinic. I was trying to get images to show as small pictures before going to the product without having to create a new images each time as my images in the products page are quite large - I thought a smaller size of those would be shown using the thumbnail section. Now I need to create a new picture for each section link. I hadn't put images in the sections because I thought it could use the image I had put in the thumbnail section of the product - hence they weren't showing. I didn't mean to mess you about or mislead you, sorry if that's how you took it. You help was appreciated.

[pinbrook]

No worries Bex.

Actinic has a steep learning curve. I also wish there was a feature wherby you could flag a product image to use as section image.

[acompton]

I also wish there was a feature wherby you could flag a product image to use as section image.

That smacks of automatically setting up one-page-per-product.