I am using ImageCache and ImageField to create my image gallery and it works great except that I have two emtpy spaces where images should be at the beginning of my first gallery. It doesn't happen with subsequent galleries. Not sure what is going on. I have tried deleting all images flushing the image caches and trying again but still the same problem. I don't currently have the image module installed (although I did previously, but it was uninstalled before ImageCache install). I also have fckeditor installed (though I am not using it for the custom image field I have created).
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Comment #1
dman commentedDo those gaps represent images that should be there (and are not being displayed) or are they false positives showing up in your view?
That is, do you EXPECT to see more than the number of images that are currently shown?
It could be that imagefield is failing to display images that don't yet exist, and imagecache has never made them because it's never been asked for them. That's a guess, I don't know what imagefield expects
Comment #2
drewish commentedComment #3
drewish commentedThis issue is being closed due to lack of feedback. Please update to the latest version of the module and see if the problem still occurs. If it does and you can provide more information please re-open this issue.
Comment #4
kiwibytes commentedHi, I am also facing this issue. I don't think Imagefield is trying to display images that don't exist as images exist with every content type, I am sure about that.
Also, the place of empty images changes from time to time.
You can see this problem in the
Most viewed stores
block on this site:
mydailvouchers.com
I have another example here in the Random Templates block:
acheapwebdesign.com
I have created both of these sites and both problematic blocks use views displaying image teasers linked to nodes.
Comment #5
dman commentedWell, I do see a blank as item #1 for mydailvouchers.com : Most viewed stores
When you are editing : view-Most-viewed-content , do you get the blank space in the UI preview also?
Can you tell what the EXPECTED item that should show up there would be, and what is different about it? Try adding a small text link to the display, so you can find the node that's returning this blank.
PS, the way you've upscaled all those lo-res logos is pretty horrid, You are just magnifying the jpeg artifacts.
Comment #6
kiwibytes commentedYour questions gave me some ideas of what needs to be checked first.
I had assumed that since image field is only being used with "vouchers" content type, then it should only list images of vouchers, so I missed out specifying node type in filters.
So probably another node type (node/add/.. or search/node/...) was being listed that had higher access count in access logs.
Now I have added a filter "Node type: Vouchers" and it is corrected on maydailyvouchers.com.
I am sure I have committed a similar mistake on aCheapWebDesign.com which I will look later.
Thanks for your help, we can't be sure what was the problem with the original thread starter but my problem is solved :)
BTW, the images are added by the client (website owner), taken from the respective websites. Alhough I have guided the client about the size and quality of images to add, it is beyond my control (or concern) what he adds there.
Comment #7
dman commentedI suspect this was the same thing the OP had - needed to add a node-type filter into their view, and be sure the results were ones that actually had images.
I mention the logo problems, mainly because I checked and saw the 'original' websites did actually have better-resolution originals there for right-click download, and the pre-imagecache ones you've got in the images directory are crap to begin with:
Original from shop:



(Then something odd happened)
Then this was uploaded to Drupal:
Which then was manipulated by imagecache into the crunchy:
Perhaps you can at least advise how to right-click/save-as directly from the site rather than screenshotting, putting it on a wooden table and photographing it with a camera-phone, faxing it to the Ukraine and back or whatever is currently happening to it.
Comment #8
kiwibytes commentedI will advise the client (website owner) to add images in light of your recommendations.
But I will take no responsibility if he still doesn't get it!