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XC 5.3 Thumbnail Trick
My apologies if this trick is something all of you already know. When I uploaded my prodcts via CSV, it stored the photos in images/products. XC5 then creates thumbnails automatically in various sizes and assigns them to another folder.
I think many of you had the same problem I had. The thumbnails quality looks a little pixelated. Not horrible, but could look better. The trick I used to fix that problem involved changing the thumbnail size in Admin>>Look and Feel>>Images. I adjusted the 'Products list image' for list and grid view, from the default 160px by 160px to 480 x 480. I think in order to have this work, the images have to be within a <container> having a max-width that is smaller than the 480x480 (I chose 50% of the 480 which 240px max-width). This will result in the 480x480 image being dynamically reduced in size, offering a much cleaner thumbnail. Sorry if this is beginner knowledge, but there is no documentation on suggested sizes to make it look optimal on XC5.3. Hope this helps some of us newbies out there
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Re: XC 5.3 Thumbnail Trick
Ugh,
I just upgraded from 5.2 to 5.3.1 and have the same problem. This is a bug as in the 5.2 version of the Variants Table View module would display the full size image, but the new 5.3.0 version of Variants table view now shows the '100pixel x 100pixel' thumbnail image which is then resized to the size you have set to display your product images. of course then the product images get completely pixelated which is terrible. I have opened a trouble ticket at this point I consider the 'Variants Table View' module completely broken. its bad enough that it doesn't support clickable images that then can blow up to a light-box like it used to do in the 4.x version of this. Hopefully the amazing x-cart development team can fix this quickly.
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Marc Washburn www.EverythingGraphic.com Running four successful X-cart 5.3.x installations and one 5.4.x |
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Re: XC 5.3 Thumbnail Trick
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The module is created by an independent developer, not the XC5 dev team. I've forwarded your message to the module author.
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Alex Solovev, Qualiteam --- User manual Video tutorials X-Cart FAQ You are welcome to press "Thanks" button if you find this post useful Click here to learn how to apply patches X-Cart Extensions |
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Re: XC 5.3 Thumbnail Trick
I want to thank the independent developer for fixing the image problem, I awoke to find an update for the module which fixed the problem (btw, you forgot to increment the version number as it is still listed as version 5.3.1).
If you are reading this, I would like to beg, plead, get on my knees and hope that you are open to adding these additional bug fixes and features to the module. The Variants Table View add-on that is available for x-cart version 4.x has these features and the fact that they are missing from the 5.x version is very sad and is causing us loss of sales. (please see the link below to the screen shots that will explain the issues in a more visual way)! List the bugs and features that we hope can be fixed and added to this module:
Screenshot of 4.x Variant Table View showing variant 'out of stock' http://i.imgur.com/YMKS54U.png Variant Table View 4.x showing 'hover over image' feature and how main (boss) image is independent from the Variant images. http://i.imgur.com/1MzMild.png
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Marc Washburn www.EverythingGraphic.com Running four successful X-cart 5.3.x installations and one 5.4.x |
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Re: XC 5.3 Thumbnail Trick
Hi, I am also looking for the features mgwashburn has mentioned above, particularly the mini add-to-cart buttons. Is there anyone who can direct me to a workable solution for this?
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Re: XC 5.3 Thumbnail Trick
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The mini add-to-cart buttons are an embedded feature of X-Cart 5. I am attaching screenshots of the setting you need to check and how it looks on the default skin and Crisp White.
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Alex Solovev, Qualiteam --- User manual Video tutorials X-Cart FAQ You are welcome to press "Thanks" button if you find this post useful Click here to learn how to apply patches X-Cart Extensions |
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Re: XC 5.3 Thumbnail Trick
Hi, and thanks for your reply!
The add-to-cart button you reference there is not what mgwashburn and I were mentioning in our posts. I am looking to add an "add-to-cart" button at the end of every row in the variant table module, not on a catalog page as shown in your screenshots.
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