Importing Additional Image Fields Not Under /mm5/

[netblazon]

I have a customer whose product images are located outside the /mm5/ directory structure. Instead, they are under httpdocs/images/whatever...

Is it possible to import these into the additional image fields? I have tried both of the following but neither works:

/images/ImageName.jpg
../images/ImageName.jpg

or will it not work unless the images are physically located somewhere under /mm5/?

Thanks,
Susan

[PCINET - Andreas]

Re: Importing Additional Image Fields Not Under /mm5/

The script works only if they are below mm5. They don't get assigned when they are not below this folder. There maybe a way but I don't know it :)

What I usually do is go to the server admin interface (plesk) and copy them to the right place.

Hope to see you at the conference!

[netblazon]

Re: Importing Additional Image Fields Not Under /mm5/

Ugh, that's what I was afraid of. Thanks, Andreas. Yes, I'll see you there!

[netblazon]

Re: Importing Additional Image Fields Not Under /mm5/

Andreas (or anyone else) - any idea if it would work if we left them where they are, but created a symlink from the location under /mm5/ to the existing location?

[Brennan]

Re: Importing Additional Image Fields Not Under /mm5/

That shouldn't be the case. You can have the images in any directory you want as long as the path is correct in the spreadsheet.

[netblazon]

Re: Importing Additional Image Fields Not Under /mm5/

Hmmm... right now I'm seeing that the image itself doesn't even load, though I can see it on the FTP site. Something is weird about that whole directory. Let me go try it with a different path.

[netblazon]

Re: Importing Additional Image Fields Not Under /mm5/

Brennan, yep, it works with a relative path:

../images/ImageName.jpg

For some reason some of my files can't be loaded even though I see them on the server, and those were all of the ones I was trying to import. So it's a completely different problem. Thanks for your help.

Susan