I have a ton of images that I have uploaded to my Joomla's "Media Manager" area. How do I change the image of a current product from the one we have for it now to one of the images we have in the "Media Manager"?
I see options to upload an image from the computer using the product's "Product Images > Upload File" section, but how do we use a file that is already on the server in Joomla? We tried to use the "Used url" field, but it didn't work. We tried "http://[myurl].com/images/ktr/annivTN.jpg" as well as "images/ktr/annivTN.jpg" but is keeps reverting back to "images/stories/virtuemart/product/"
I can't imagine that there is no way to switch the image used for a product, but I can not find the option. Doing searches on this forum, Google, even StackOverflow only returns how to change the image size or using a different image depending on user input. Neither of these are what I am looking for so I am guessing that either this is so easy that no one has had a problem before, or that everyone just uploads their replacement image manually from their computer, product by product, rather than upload all their images and switching them out.
I am only doing the back end programming and design etc, and the lady in charge of swapping out the images is not very computer savvy, so I am hoping that there is an easy answer rather than having to manually upload each individual image by hand.
just upload them to the correct path and then they are available to select in the products image tab
the path is images/stories/virtuemart/product/
then sync your media via the VM media admin
OK, I guess that location makes more sense anyway. I found the "Synchronize media to VirtueMart" and it listed all the images.
I wasn't getting anything easier than typing the URL into the textfield and so I was going to reply with my problems, but trying to re create it, I stumbled on the images at the top of the "Products Images" tab. I am not sure why they were not showing before, maybe my server took a few minutes to wake up or whatever.
Anyway, this now works a lot more like I would expect it to work. Thank you "GJC Web Design"