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I’m trying to wrap my head around how to use the image attributes.  I’m no developer so please bare with me.

Here’s an example of what we would like to do.  If we had a store selling herbal supplements we would need an image on the product page showing the product ingredient label.  We wouldn’t just want that image to show up among the other product images but separately next to the product description. 

When I add a new image attribute to the attribute set I’m using it shows up as a column with radio buttons in the image tab of the product management page.  Can we create a new image attribute, name it Product Label (product_label), and place that tag so that is shows the image with that radio button selected in that spot?

Am I over simplifying it?

It’s actually quite simple. We did something similar for a client in which we displayed a brand logo on the product pages. In short we created a new ‘block’ which looked for the logo attribute (as set in the admin console) and displayed it on the product detail page. The block looked something like this:

We also needed a template file which called the getLogo() method on the Block class:

Finally we needed to modify the catalog.xml to include the new block we had created on the product details page

I’ve simplified it all a bit but that’s the general idea ... create a block and template then modify the layout file to include the new block. Of course if you’re not a programmer this will all seem like chinese to you! But maybe you can find a developer who can help you

Matt

Thanks for the feedback, Matt.  That is a bit Chinese to me but I think I get the idea.  In this situation did you have a logo image uploaded and specified on each product management page or does it insert the logo based on the selected manufacture attribute? 

I assume we could set it up so it would reference the newly added “custom” image attribute we were able to add the attribute set?

Any other help on this?  I’d be interested in hiring someone to help us implement this on our site.

SlamMan - 28 October 2009 05:03 PM

I’m trying to wrap my head around how to use the image attributes.  I’m no developer so please bare with me.

Here’s an example of what we would like to do.  If we had a store selling herbal supplements we would need an image on the product page showing the product ingredient label.  We wouldn’t just want that image to show up among the other product images but separately next to the product description.

It is really easy to show image of the attributes at the product page with the Improved Navigation extension to make the page visually attractive and improve user experience.

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