[ic] Images and the Admin UI

[Philip S. Hempel]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 09:49, Ton Verhagen wrote:
> Quoting Philip S. Hempel (pshempel at linuxhardcore.com):
> >On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:51, Ton Verhagen wrote:
> > > Quoting Philip S. Hempel (pshempel at linuxhardcore.com):
> > > >On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:45, Mike Heins wrote:
> > > > > Quoting Philip S. Hempel (pshempel at linuxhardcore.com):
> > > > > > I am using 5.0 pre cvs
> > > > > > Non-threaded perl 5.8.1
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here is my dilemma, we have a number of products that use the same
> > > > > > image.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Problem we have is in 4.9/5.0 the UI has changed in some way that 
> > allows
> > > > > > an upload of zero bit file essentially overwriting the original 
> > file or
> > > > > > zeroing out the file.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What we do to cause this is to upload the image into one item, 
> > then edit
> > > > > > additional items placing the same image name into the image of 
> > the other
> > > > > > products that use it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then you need to use a different widget than the imagehelper widget.
> > > > > The box you are typing into is not a text box, it is a file element.
> > > > > It is designed to upload a file, not input text info into the database.
> > > >
> ><snip>
> >
> > > Have you tried my suggestion of changing the 'Directory' entry on
> > > the 'Advanced' tab of the meta edit form as suggested in one of
> > > my previous postings?
> > >
> > > I use that solution frequently for my customers and it really works
> > > like a charm.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >I have and all I get is none as a drop down list, I checked logs and
> >nothing to show me why your proposal would not work. I tested it under a
> >demo store on the icdevgroup servers and it works. I see that this might
> >work similar to what I am trying to do.
> >
> >I looked in my logs and see nothing as in errors.
> 
> Has your catalog a sym link 'images' to the images directory in html space?
> 
> 

Underneath the catalog root is an images directory. I use the "image"
tag and I know if this does not work my images would not show up.

I can say this that in the admin UI display of many of my images do not
work. I can click on the links to them and see the image but many just
do not show up.

I am not sure if not being able to find the images for display is
related or not. I just can't understand how the image tag works for
everything under the store but not the admin UI, but I can't just click
on the image links and they are displayed.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ton
> 

BTW I am using a Debian install.
I have never in the past have had many problems, images just seems to 
be an issue for some reason.

Thanks again