Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

[Tom Gleason]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Greetings.

I updated everything to the PR8 Beta. I was getting the thumbnails and a popup closeup version initially with gifs but the quality of the thumbnail gifs were so bad compared to the jpgs that I wanted to use jpgs.

My problem is that when I upload my jpg additional images I am getting "Error: Unable to determine image file format". I am uploading as Photoshop, optimized for web, jpgs. All extensions have been added/permitted in the Domain Settings. The only version that worked were .gifs. I contacted support and he was able to upload his own jpgs and they worked.

So I tried exporting the images from Fireworks and they uploaded however as I have been trying to work through this I now can no longer get the closeup version to popup and it is no longer making the three different size versions in my graphics folder. I now typically just end up with a "?" where the graphics should appear.

It seems like things are just degrading.

Not sure where to go from here and would appreciate any thoughts. I did update everything as stated in this forum and as I noted, it worked initially with gifs, but now nothing.

Thank you very much for any assistance!

[Tom Gleason]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

In reference to my post, I was able to get the jpgs to upload properly switching from Photoshop CS5 to CS3.

However the closeup function is still no longer working.

[Tom Gleason]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

In reference to my post, I was able to get the jpgs to upload properly switching from Photoshop CS5 to CS3.

However the closeup function is still no longer working.

Resolved. Reentered the code in this forum for Product Display Layout.

[JamesH]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Help, I am really lost here. I am starting this upgrade from scratch with a new store. Is it possible that I can just get all these modified files so that I can just FTP them into my store. Since I'm starting from scratch and I have no modules added to my store I could just drop these in place and be up and running.

If I can't just get the files, if you could open a new sticky thread that is read-only and place the entire contents of these modified files in there so they can be found in one place and copied and just dropped in place by replacing the entire contents of the file.

[JamesH]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

[quote=pbrynie;377299]To enable the Image Machine on pages with multiple products the HTML elements defined in the Image Machine settings tab must exist in the page template with dynamic identifiers. By default, they are:

main_image_%product_id%
thumbnails_%product_id%
closeup_div_%product_id%
closeup_image_%product_id%
closeup_close_%product_id%

In the templates, they would look like this:

(Where in the templates do I place this? What about the CSS for this?)

<img id="main_image_&mvt:product:id;" />
<div id="thumbnails_&mvt:product:id;"></div>
<div id="closeup_div_&mvt:product:id;">
    <img id="closeup_image_&mvt:product:id;" />
    <a id="closeup_close_&mvt:product:id;">close</a>
</div>

Both of the mvt:item calls would also need to be included in the page template:

In the head tag...

<mvt:item name="category_listing_imagemachine" param="head" />

...and within the product foreach loop...

(Where in the product loop? I have tried several locations and I can't get this to work? One spot sent my store into an endless transfer loop.)

<mvt:item name="category_listing_imagemachine" param="body:product:id" />

Help, I would really like to get the images working so I can start working on my store.

[pbrynie]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

This first page of this post shows where to place this new code as well as the default CSS classes for the elements.

Regards,

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Could someone please spell out a little slower EXACTLY how to get main and thumbnail images to display on a MMUI category page becase I have spent hours trying this.

I have in my head section

<mvt:item name="ctgy_imagemachine" param="head" />

Inside the for each loop

<mvt:item name="ctgy_imagemachine" param="body:product:id" />

Where the image should display.

<img id="main_image_&mvt:product:id;" />
<div id="thumbnails_&mvt:product:id;"></div>

When I view source I can see this

<script>
var image_data410527 = [
{
"type_code":    "codea",
"image_data":
[
"graphics/00000001/85521alg\x5f200x105.jpg",
"graphics/00000001/85521alg\x5f42x22.jpg"
]
}
,{
"type_code":    "bottom",
"image_data":
[
"graphics/00000001/MRL-Wsole35718-060110.tif\x5f192x200.jpg",
"graphics/00000001/MRL-Wsole35718-060110.tif\x5f40x42.jpg"
]
}
]
var im410527 = new ImageMachine( '\x38\x35\x35\x32\x31', '', '\x6d\x61\x69\x6e\x5f\x69\x6d\x61\x67\x65\x5f\x34\x31\x30\x35\x32\x37', '\x74\x68\x75\x6d\x62\x6e\x61\x69\x6c\x73\x5f\x34\x31\x30\x35\x32\x37', '\x63\x6c\x6f\x73\x65\x75\x70\x5f\x64\x69\x76\x5f\x34\x31\x30\x35\x32\x37', '\x63\x6c\x6f\x73\x65\x75\x70\x5f\x69\x6d\x61\x67\x65\x5f\x34\x31\x30\x35\x32\x37', '\x63\x6c\x6f\x73\x65\x75\x70\x5f\x63\x6c\x6f\x73\x65\x5f\x34\x31\x30\x35\x32\x37', '', '\x42', 200, 200, 0, '\x42', 500, 500, 1, 42, 42, 0, '' );
im410527.oninitialize( image_data410527 );
</script>

However nothing actually display on the screen. I have tried several different products some with additional thumbnails and some with out but nothing ever display.

I should add that these images uploaded do work on the PROD page.
Yes CTGY_image machine is assigned hence all the fun code I think

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

PR8 hates me and my MMUI store :)

PROD page integration.
I can not get select attributes to display with the select swatch drop down. I know I have set this up somewhat correctly because when I change the selection the main image changes. It also displays the attribute swatches when switched to a radio button.

Please confirm that the given example of PR8 attribute template was 100% complete because I do not see the call for an image like CSSUI has?


CTGY page > Still can not get thumbnails to display as shown in previous post.

[pbrynie]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Regarding the PROD attribute swatches issue:

The only changes made to the product attribute template in PR8 were to include the case of encountering an attribute type of "swatch-select". They are drawn exactly as the normal "select" types are drawn, as the Attribute Machine is what's actually responsible for finding the "swatches" element on the page and generating the clickable swatches.

These are the types of changes that have been made to the attribute template:

<mvt:elseif expr="( l.settings:attribute:type EQ 'select' ) OR ( l.settings:attribute:type EQ 'swatch-select' )">

You'll notice that these changes won't affect the way the form elements are drawn, it just catches the case of encountering a new type.

Also, make sure you aren't getting any JavaScript errors and that the call to the Attibute Machine in the body is after the "swatches" element on the page. This "swatches" ID was added to elements in the PR8 Product Display Layout template changes for both MMUI and CSSUI.

Regarding the CTGY additional images/thumbnails isssue:

Make sure the call to the ctgy_imagemachine item in the body's foreach loop is after the elements such as

"main_image_&mvt:product:id" and "thumbnails_&mvt:product:id;"

Make sure you're not receiving any JavaScript errors, in which case there is probably a mismatch between the IDs in the Image Machine's settings and the ones in the template.

Regards,

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Regarding the PROD attribute swatches issue:

The only changes made to the product attribute template in PR8 were to include the case of encountering an attribute type of "swatch-select". They are drawn exactly as the normal "select" types are drawn, as the Attribute Machine is what's actually responsible for finding the "swatches" element on the page and generating the clickable swatches.

These are the types of changes that have been made to the attribute template:

<mvt:elseif expr="( l.settings:attribute:type EQ 'select' ) OR ( l.settings:attribute:type EQ 'swatch-select' )">

You'll notice that these changes won't affect the way the form elements are drawn, it just catches the case of encountering a new type.

Also, make sure you aren't getting any JavaScript errors and that the call to the Attibute Machine in the body is after the "swatches" element on the page. This "swatches" ID was added to elements in the PR8 Product Display Layout template changes for both MMUI and CSSUI.

Regarding the CTGY additional images/thumbnails isssue:

Make sure the call to the ctgy_imagemachine item in the body's foreach loop is after the elements such as

"main_image_&mvt:product:id" and "thumbnails_&mvt:product:id;"

Make sure you're not receiving any JavaScript errors, in which case there is probably a mismatch between the IDs in the Image Machine's settings and the ones in the template.

Regards,

Thanks I have tried this six ways from Sunday with no luck.

PROD page - Could it have anything to do with the fact that I do not use Miva's default location for graphics? The main images are displayed on the PROD page and they swap with the change of the. If I switch to a radio button the swatches appear but they do not appear with select swatch attribute.

[pbrynie]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Do you have an element with the ID of "swatches" somewhere in your PROD template?

[lvalesko]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

We need to control the delimiter and have been told that PR8 will allow us to do this.

Is this true?

If so, when will PR8 be out of Beta?

Thanks!

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Yes that's true.

No eta other than as soon as we can.

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

Do you have an element with the ID of "swatches" somewhere in your PROD template?

I am getting there slowly. I finally have alternates of the main products images available on the category tree. However the css for the thumbnails does not display them correctly for me. The missing information that was not originally stated in the display code was that

Make sure the call to the ctgy_imagemachine item in the body's foreach loop is after the elements such as

I have still not been able to get the product page to correctly swap out thumbnails with a swatch select drop down. If I switch it to a radio button it works.

If I have also assigned images to the main product then magically upon attribute selection a tiny thumbnails displays under the product instead of within the td-swatches.

[Mark Hood]

Re: Miva Merchant Production Release 8 Public Beta

I am getting there slowly. I finally have alternates of the main products images available on the category tree. However the css for the thumbnails does not display them correctly for me. The missing information that was not originally stated in the display code was that

I have still not been able to get the product page to correctly swap out thumbnails with a swatch select drop down. If I switch it to a radio button it works.

If I have also assigned images to the main product then magically upon attribute selection a tiny thumbnails displays under the product instead of within the td-swatches.

OK so I FINALLY figured it out.

The missing step was a setting in the attribute machine that was not given as far as I know and was not changed with the update.

On the attribute machine tab >
Swatch Element: (needs to have the word swatches added)

Now I just need to figure out how to get the css to work correctly