Default Section Image - BUG?

[TraceyHand]

doesn't it work if you tick the "allow empty value" box in the DefaultSectionImage variable then?
So you can leave the entry for default section image, in the Site Options, blank?

[leehack]

Nope tried that too, it's weird i tell ya, had me going bonkers for a while.

[cdicken]

Instead of the AND in the second condition, try it with an OR

[pinbrook]

I don't know what that means lol, did i do something, stupid?

Pls don't call me stupid...

[TraceyHand]

ok..right well it works for me

If I make the DefaultSectionImage so I can leave it empty. Leave the setting for the default section image, in the site options, BLANK...and leave the section image blank.
Place a blockif that I posted before around the sectionimage...and I get no image, no blank space, no default image (although I did have to clear the 2 entries in the defaultsectionimage too..the top level and something else..can't think off hand)

but anyway...it works for me..online and offline

so...you broken yours then, Lee?

[leehack]

Put a border on the 2 areas and you will see, remember this has to cater for when you have an image and when you don't have an image. One solution for both in other words.

[TraceyHand]

honestly, it's working for me
it shows the image when I reference one and nothing, no space or anything, when I don't.
I'll pm you a link so you can see.

actually, on reflection, it is rather flakey though

I added subsections and, even though NO image was referenced anywhere, it showed the default (well, the parent) image
However, I went into the DefaultSectionImage variable (to check it didn't have a "use parent" option ticked or something) came out of it without changing anything and now the section image has gone again.
So, it's working..but there's something a bit flakey somewhere

[leehack]

Instead of the AND in the second condition, try it with an OR

It's the AND that makes it work, the double condition is the solution not the problem. If i change that to OR then it fails, likewise if either of those conditions are removed it fails on either the preview or online (dependent on which one you remove). What I don't undersand is how actinic previews one thing and then uploads something different.

This code below fails if you remove one of the conditions on the second row:

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="136" bordercolor="<actinic:variable name="Palette2" />">
	<tr>
      <td align="center" bgcolor="<actinic:variable name="CheckoutEM" />">
         <strong><a style="color: <actinic:variable name="Palette1" />;" href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self"><actinic:variable name='SectionName'/></a></strong>
      </td>
   </tr>
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22SectionImageFileName%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%2e%2e%2ftheme%5fsection%5fimage%2egif%22%20AND%20%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22SectionImageFileName%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22theme%5fsection%5fimage%2egif%22" >
	<tr>
      <td align="center">
         <a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self">
         <img alt="<actinic:variable name="SectionName" encoding="strip"/>" src="<actinic:variable Name="SectionImageFileName"/>" border="0" /></a><br/>
			<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22SectionDescription%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22">
			<span class="highlight"><actinic:variable name="SectionDescription" /></span>
			</actinic:block>
		</td>
   </tr>
   </actinic:block>
</table>

[jont]

Lee - you are as mental as ever

[jont]

You will probably always need the 2 conditions as the online path is in the same directory but the offline hosts in the PreviewHTML and points to the image - typically a level beneath or at the same level in another folder.

You could cheat the fecker and place a copy of the image in the PreviewHTML folder