[DONE v1.3.6] manually typing of images doesn't work!?

I have been ftping images into the correct folder then manually typing the image name into the products image field with no probs since my site opened... now suddenly it doesn't work!?

In Firefox the image simply doesn't show or seem to be added, in IE once you manually type the name and select no the preview button doesn't work?

Any ideas what is going on and how to fix it?

The only possible change that could affect it is that I finally upgraded FF this week.. we are still running zen 1.3.0 while we sort through how to uprgade.

thanks

Kate

I am sorry to be pushy here but this is a BIG problem for me.. anyone with ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Kate

i would suggest easy populate...so you can do it as a batch at once...

other than that, if your manually typing the names in anyway, why not just upload the pic at the same time?

This is being worked on for v1.3.6 ...

Moving to Bug Reports 'cause it's kind of a bug, kind of a browser limitation

thanks so much for the replies..

The reason I can't upload the pic at the same time is that pics have already been uploaded by someone else.. I am just putting the items in the store not on the server.

What I don't understand is why it used to work and now doesn't?

But thanks... a fix for this would be great!

Kate

Actually ... something changed in the browsers/php in how uploads are handled ...

Where we use to be able to type in text in the browse field ... first IE then FireFox suddenly would not allow this ...

This has been updated in the upcoming release of v1.3.6 to manage:
Browse for image
Manual entry of existing image
Delete Image from the database

Hi Ajeh, I've hit the same snag. Is there a quick code patch or a work around for this in the mean time?

Thanks

Not sure if this is the same problem as I was having (sounds like it, but I'm a newbie)

Anyways, when I went and browsed for pic and click preview. I would get a blank box with an X in it.

If I manually typed it as discussed in prev. threads, I would get the No Image Pic displayed.

For some reason, it stated working today IF I did the following.

1. Browse for pic, and click on the one I wanted.
2. Click preview, then update.
3. Manually FTP the image file to /images dir.
4. Go back and preview Item I just added, and the picture is there.

When looking to fix this, I checked all the attribs, they were set correctly. I checked the database, and the file names were getting appended correctly. and suddenly it started showing the pics, if I followed those steps. Didn't matter if I used IE or Firefox, though did notice yesterday, if I manually typed in the file name, I couldn't click preview, while using firefox......

benz001:

Hi Ajeh, I've hit the same snag. Is there a quick code patch or a work around for this in the mean time?

Thanks

Sorry it was not a quick fix ... but we hope the new release will be ... :cool:

Thanks - for anyone interested, the workaround I ended up using was:

1. FTP the image files up first (into images, images/large as required)
2. Log on to phpMyAdmin and browse to the storeX_products table
3. Using the SQL view export this to excel CSV format and save as a file
4. Open it in excel and add the image names in for every product
5. Save it as a CSV file
6. Back in phpMyAdmin upload the text file and replace existing table

TIP - Name your images so that their names can be derived from the product codes, then you can use an expression in excel to create the correct names. My image files were legacy ones and it took *hours *to match them up to the correct products (=VLOOKUP and the storeX_products_description tables helped)

Also watch out for date fields in the CSV file, excel reformats these as excel dates and stuffs them up totally when you re-upload. There is a way to turn this off, but I just reset the dates on all my products anyway.

Apologies for the duplicate notice posting; however, 1.3.6 was released yesterday.