By mbacas on

I'm wondering if there is a way to hide an image gallery that was created with the image module? I want to use the image module to create my images for my product for use with ecommerce, but I'd rather the images not be displayed in the image gallery module.

Is there a better way to handle this?

Also, I'm using the image filter support to display the image. [image: node id]

This displays the thumb and lets the user click to see the larger image, but then they have to go back to the product. Is this intuitive for most web users? Is there a better way to handle this?

I was going to just modify the images changing them into products but that didn't seem to work.

Thanks for any ideas,

- Mark

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matt westgate commented

What I like to do is create an image gallery of product pictures and then convert them to products.

You can then view the products through the image module or through example.org/product.

An even newer approach is to link to the images in your products using the img_assist module I just wrote.

And here's an example of using the image gallery for products.

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mbacas commented

I must have something wrong with my taxonomy or something. When I try to do it the image module way, I can click on the "Add to Products" button and create the product. It shows up in the Admin|Store in the quantity of products. It even shows up if I click on the "list all products" in "create a new transaction" screen.

But if I do a website.org/product it isn't listed there. The 2 items that I created as products show up though. Oh, well.

And if I view the image it doesn't give me the "Add to Cart" option.

I had actually already looked at your "img_assist" and I'll probably see about using it.

Since I'd rather my images not be in an image gallery, I my questions would be:

1. Is there a module that would allow me to process a directory on my server like the "admin|images|directory upload fast" process to convert my images to nodes so img_assist can work with them?

I thought I'd have more than one question, but I guess that's it. Thanks again for the great ecommerce module and img_assist looks awesome as well.

- Mark

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matt westgate commented

Your using the CVS version of Drupal right? The ecommerce module depends on the new nodeapi 'load' hook to let node images also be node products.

If so, then it sounds like a theme issue rather than anything else. What theme are you using? I'll see if I can re-create the problem on my machine after you let me know.

matt

ps - about your question regarding img_assist. Once you have a gallery of images created with the image module, img_assist will also be able to see them. So loosely speaking, image.module already 'converts' images to node.

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mbacas commented

I installed it on top of my 4.4.1 system.

Is there documentation on how to convert to the CVS system? I tried this on my backup/test site but ran into issues. Is this possible to convert/update to CVS? Or does this have to be done from fresh install?

I knew about the image.module making the nodes, but I wish it didn't have to create an image gallery. Or that there was a way to "unpublish" or hide an image gallery, so I could use it behind the scenes for my site. I would still like to create galleries as I still have a use for that as well, so I wouldn't want all the images galleries to be hidden.

Is the standard way of backing up the SQL database to use phpMyAdmin and doing an export?

I'm game on trying to update to the CVS.

If I should wait for 4.5 is there a way to remove the ecommerce module (well removing the modules would be easy enough) and database entries? Or should I just leave it and just not use it?

Thanks for your help Matt,

- Mark

ps - love the ferrets. use to have some.

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green monkey commented

I have been trying to figure this out all morning. I have seen the difference in display at several sites. But, I just couldn't find the settings or node to display. I was sitting here thinking -- if I could only figure out a way to display the products like the way Image Gallery displays Galleries .....

duh, create an Image Gallery :-)

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geekarena commented

I was also faced with this issue using images for products with the ecommerce package. It appears that if you put the images in a personal gallery, they will not appear in the regular image gallery page, but can then be made into a product with the use of image assist module.

The only problem I now have is that the first (public) image gallery that was created for the images shows on the list of galleries, even though there is nothing now in it. How do I remove that gallery?

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tclineks commented

under admin/image -- edit then delete