G Dubyah Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Thanks for the downgrade in the latest update ! Now instead of just browsing for an image and uploading it, you now have to drag it into a box, and then select it from the list to include it with a product, costs more time and is a retrograde step, can we have the old system or at least give us the choice !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Nice to hear that weeks of hard work is appreciated. p.s. If you click the drag area you can select instead but the uploaded files will still need to be selected from the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Dubyah Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 I have found that out, but it still seems to be longer way round to do things ! Perhaps you would like to upload the 200 new items per week I have coming into my shop !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Thanks for your feedback. Maybe we can see about getting it to auto assign too. 5 minutes ago, G Dubyah said: Perhaps you would like to upload the 200 new items per week I have coming into my shop !! Can't you upload all the images first (by drag and drop on the main image file manager rather than selecting them individually like before) and then import the products with a CSV file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Quote Maybe we can see about getting it to auto assign too. This would be very helpful. It does add an extra step now. Since I don't have a touch screen it's really not an improvement for me, either, but just a sideways move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Righty ho folks. Lets see about making it better for the next release. CubeCart should make you life easier if anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsandall Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Honestly, I don't even use the admin panel to manage images - for it to be competitive timewise with other solutions (see below), it would need to be able to upload entire folders of images at a time and then have the ability to auto-assign them to products based on the product code as well as the product code of any matrix entries for that product. Al's suggestion of using a CSV importing tool to import products would help with the products, though I am unaware of any tools that do so in a way that would also handle adding image relationships. For now, I use a custom script I wrote instead, staging my images offline and then running the script to auto-assign each of them to products based on filename:product_code matching. That can easily handle adding and assigning hundreds or even thousands of images in less than a minute. Then I upload the images via FTP (easy to do entire folders) and import the offline product and image table data to my live site. Way faster The script can also be run live, but I like to do all of my changes offline first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 6 minutes ago, bsandall said: Al's suggestion of using a CSV importing tool to import products would help with the products, though I am unaware of any tools that do so in a way that would also handle adding image relationships. You can have multiple images per product in the spreadsheet and it takes the first one as primary. Just comma separate each image. https://github.com/cubecart/v6/blob/master/admin/sources/products.import.inc.php#L109-L142 https://support.cubecart.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/32/41/how-do-i-use-the-bulk-product-import-tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Even without a touchscreen, the advantage to the dropzone for me is being able to load a series of photos all in one step. THAT is very helpful! But currently having to find each photo and tick the box for each photo negates the advantage. I can drag them from my photo editing screen to the taskbar icon for my browser and they show up in the box, but I didn't know I could click in the Dropzone box and browse. Thanks for that!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Just now, Dirty Butter said: I didn't know I could click in the Dropzone box and browse We need to make that clearer then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayz1 Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Running scripts and csv imports is beyond most people so needs to assign first image as the main image and subsequent images as additional. Off to do some staff training on how to assign an image now because one of them is looking confused.com!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsandall Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 9 minutes ago, Al Brookbanks said: You can have multiple images per product in the spreadsheet and it takes the first one as primary. Just comma separate each image. https://github.com/cubecart/v6/blob/master/admin/sources/products.import.inc.php#L109-L142 https://support.cubecart.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/32/41/how-do-i-use-the-bulk-product-import-tool That's pretty slick! I guess I never looked that closely at it, perhaps because the 'Import Catalogue' page in the admin panel is so sparse its usefulness is not apparent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 3 minutes ago, ayz1 said: confused.com Flagged as spam!! Hehehe. Just joking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I created a GitHub issue for this https://github.com/cubecart/v6/issues/1326 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Dubyah Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 2 hours ago, Al Brookbanks said: Thanks for your feedback. Maybe we can see about getting it to auto assign too. Can't you upload all the images first (by drag and drop on the main image file manager rather than selecting them individually like before) and then import the products with a CSV file? I could but it still doesn't reduce the number of actions required to post an image, and it means browsing through a whole lot more, that would however be made easier if you didn't have to use a check box, but could do so just by selecting image description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I'll get assign automated after upload.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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