Hello,

I am a .NET developer working with nopcommerce in my next project. One of the requirements I have is that each product variant must have a set of images of its own. Has anybody had any luck in implementing something like this using the existing nop framework????

If you do, do you have any recomendations on how to go about it? Should I just go ahead and code my own image management library and forget about using existing libraries?

By the way I love what you have done with nopcommerce, its great to see well coded .NET open source.

Regards,

Abelardo Duarte
Bogotá, Colombia

I am curious about this too.  Please let me know if you find a solution.

Thanks,
Chad

I am just confused about your question, you mean 1 product variant  to 1 image or 1 product variant to multiple images. Right now we can add each Image for each product variant.

But you can add many images for a product, by selecting the product, and goto Picture tab, add many pictures as you want. Typical example is build your own computer. follow the link  here  or copy paste http://demo.nopcommerce.com/Products/67-build-your-own-computer.aspx


Hope this helps.

Thanks
Venkat

Thanks Venkat but yes, I need multiple images for each product variant. The thing is that the products the store sells are shoes, where one model has many colors and sizes. So think of the model as the product and the combinations of products and sizes variants. Example: 1 shoe model, 3 colors, 3 sizes = 9 variants.

But there is a catch I was thinking during the afternoon... I don´t want to have an image upload tab for each variant because, as variants depend on sizes, I would have a separate set of images for every size! Again, lets say that a type of shoe has 3 colors and 3 sizes; the admin would have to add images for every color 3 times, one for each size, for a total of 9... a store admin nightmare if there are 60 products, 6 colors and 6 sizes of each. :s

For that reason I´m thinking it is better to modify the current product image tab so that the software knows that a specific image corresponds to a particular variant color attribute. The new product image upload tab would have extra columns where the admin selects a variant attribute type and value for each image... Something like that.

Abelardo Duarte
Bogotá, Colombia

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aduarte,

for your example all you have to do is upload 1 image of each colour (eg 3 colours = 3 images) to 'unnamed product varient'

eg

upload 3 images (one of each colour)  to the 'unnamed product variant'
then give that product variant two sets of attributes ie
size drop down list : size 1 , size 2,  size 3 etc
color drop down list : brown, red, green

in v1.5 you have a product copy button so if you create the attributes first for one product then you can just copy this product for every shoe in your store - you would need to change the images, but it would be very fast and easy

I don't see a way to upload multiple images in 'unnamed product variant'. Can anyone please show me where to do this?

Hi did you find a way to do this? I'm also trying to do the same

@ Hillng

presume that for 'unnamed product variant' you simply mean that you have only one product variant (the default one)

eg    ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=54


click the pictures tab and  use the '+'  bedide the 'upload' button

Hi haydie,

The product has one variant. The variant has size and color attributes. Am trying to associate one image for each color. For the life of me i can't see how this can be done.
If you just add pictures to the actual product then it's not really associated with the color which is what i'm trying to do. The only solution i can think of in this scenario would be to modify the source which could get messy.
As an example if you log into the online demo here - http://admin-demo.nopcommerce.com/
and then goto
http://admin-demo.nopcommerce.com/administration/ProductVariantAttributeValues.aspx?ProductVariantAttributeID=18
, this is where ideally i'd like to be able to add an image.

The reason i'm trying to do this is so on the front end (http://demo.nopcommerce.com/products/50-etnies-mens-digit-sneaker.aspx), when selecting a color form the dropdown it will update the main photo with that color.
Any ideas?

thanks