Product Image Lookup by Sku for Variant Sku?

[DBounlom]

Is the product image lookup by sku feature supposed to work with variants? For instance, I have a single option of color, with two different color variants. AC is not picking up the pictures in the /assets/productimages folder. I am sure the product images are labeled correctly.

For instance, if the sku is "test" then I have the image labeled as "test.jpg" and the image swatch set to "test_t.jpg" The main product image shows up. I then add an option titled "color" and I title the two variants as "black" and "blue." The images then do not show up on the product page. Within the "edit options" of my "color" option, I have "show swatches" check marked. The swatch url and image url for the black and blue color variants I left blank. I populated the Sku field as "-black" and "-blue". The images I uploaded to the /assets/productimages folder are labeled "test-black.jpg" and "test-black_t.jpg". I don't know what is wrong. Does AC not populate these swatch and image url fields? Thanks for any help.

I am running AbleCommerce 7.0.3 build 12458

[mazhar]

Image look up currently works only for master products not at variants level. I have created an enhancements report for this ability. You can track progress on this here http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8507

[DBounlom]

Hi Mazhar,

Thanks for replying, and thank you for creating an enhancement report. Is there currently an easier way to specify in mass URL's for variant images other than XML? I know Dataport exports product files as XML and CSV files, but as far as I know you cannot do it in CSV yet. Do people really import URL data into AC with XML? It seems to me that putting all this mindless data in an XML editor such as Oxygen XML Editor with the hierarchical tree format would be nauseating. Is there a more efficient method that I am unaware of? Thanks!

[mazhar]

Currently there is no other way except editing the XML file to manually adjust variant images. Alternatively you may write some custom script to automate this job.

[moustafa]

Hi,

I can't log in to this bugzilla instance b/c I don't have an account. Is this feature working now for variants?

If not, then if I understand correctly, this can be done via DataPort by manually modifying an XML file. Is this correct?

Thanks.

[AbleMods]

That is correct. Dataport will allow you to export/import the variant products in your store.

Manually editing an XML file can be a tedious task at best.