How do you change the image of a product?

[billynair]

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.

[GJC Web Design]

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

[billynair]

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"