Thread: Image Resize on Product Import

G'day!

I'm building a .NET application to retrieve products and images from a ERP system, build an XML document and call the WSI to import this information. The XML is a simple Product Action="Add" command adding a ProductVariant per Product, and doing some entity mapping.


I also wish to add a single image (which I have converted to the 64-bit encoded string) three times, once each for Icon, Medium and Large.


My problem is there is a bit of a difference between pages in the WSI manual; namely the Product template and the Image Resize pages.

The Image Resize page says I can do something like this:

<Images>
<Icon Extension="jpeg" UseAppConfigs="true">base 64 encoded image data here</Large>
<Medium Extension="jpeg" UseAppConfigs="true">base 64 encoded image data here</Large>
<Large Extension="jpeg" UseAppConfigs="true">base 64 encoded image data here</Large>
</Images>

However the Product xml template only mentions the Extension and Delete attributes for these Product->Images->Icon/Medium/Large tags.


I've been playing around with it and all I ever get is three images of the same size for my products.


Can someone please tell me what I need to do to resize my images, either from the AppConfig or from my own Params (with Resize="true") within a Product import xml?

The best way do this is to make sure that your appconfigs are set properly, and then set the UseAppConfigs attribute of the Images node to true. Have a look at this thread.

Hi Alfred,


Thanks for the reply.


If I changed my XML from

Code:

<Images>
   <Icon Extension="jpg" UseResize="true" UseAppConfigs="true"> encoded data here... </Icon>
   <Medium Extension="jpg" UseResize="true" UseAppConfigs="true"> encoded data here... </Medium>
   <Large Extension="jpg" UseResize="true" UseAppConfigs="true"> encoded data here... </Large>
</Images>

to this:

Code:

<Images UseResize="true" UseAppConfigs="true">
   <Icon Extension="jpg"> encoded data here... </Icon>
   <Medium Extension="jpg"> encoded data here... </Medium>
   <Large Extension="jpg"> encoded data here... </Large>
</Images>

Everything works out fine.

Thanks again!

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