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VM3 Importing Category Pictures #7297

Open atrus opened this topic Sunday, 19 April 2015 · 6 replies
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Hi Roland,

Noticed the following when tried to import some category pictures for VM3:

By default, when pictures are imported are not published. So i checked for a 'publish' field for the pics in the category import template but i could not find any; there is a publish field but this is for the category itself. Maybe i'm missing smth? (There is a 'publish' column in the media table)

Maybe the same applies to product categories also? Need to check!

Rgrds,
Chris

CSVI 7.16.1, Virtuemart 3.8.2, Joomla 3.9.18, PHP 7.2.31

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Hello Chris,

The field published is used to set the published state of the images. Have you used that?

Kind regards,

RolandD

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Hi Roland,

Hmm, i already have it in my import file but i thought this is for the categories published state, or not?

Rgrds,
Chris

CSVI 7.16.1, Virtuemart 3.8.2, Joomla 3.9.18, PHP 7.2.31

Support

Hello Chris,

This field is used for both categories and images. The idea behind it is, if you want to publish the category, you may want to publish the image as well.

Kind regards,

RolandD

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Hi Roland,

Thanks, i will try it.

Just a suggestion for the future: if you are uploading multiple images currently you cannot control their publish status individually through CSVI. Or imagine you have products or categories with many pictures and at some point you need to unpublish (not delete) a series of images. There is no way you could do this with current version of CSVI; suggesting a different field like file_published that could also take multiple values like Y;Y;Y;N;Y;N;N;Y... ;)

Rgrds,
Chris

CSVI 7.16.1, Virtuemart 3.8.2, Joomla 3.9.18, PHP 7.2.31

Support

Hello Chris,

Or imagine you have products or categories with many pictures and at some point you need to unpublish (not delete) a series of images. There is no way you could do this with current version of CSVI;

You can do that with the Media import or am I missing something?

Kind regards,

RolandD

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Hi Roland,

Hmm, you are right, should be possible, will look into it and let you know if i find otherwise.

Rgrds,
Chris

CSVI 7.16.1, Virtuemart 3.8.2, Joomla 3.9.18, PHP 7.2.31

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