Personify360 supports the upload of multiple images for products and umbrella products for display on your e-Business site. You may want to have multiple images of your product, allowing customers to click on each image to view it in a larger size. This includes a default image and two additional thumbnails, clickable to show alternate images, as shown below.
If
no image is set up, a “No Image Available” image will display on your
site, as shown below.
Images have a big impact on a consumers' decision to learn more and, ultimately, purchase a product. The time spent taking photos of products and loading them into the system will affect how well your organization's ability to sell products and services is. Additionally, you should provide your photos in the highest resolution possible and the system will resize them. By default, the system resizes the large image to 250 x 250 pixels and the thumbnail image to 150 x 150. However, this default can be changed by editing the width and height of the "LARGE" and "SMALL" codes defined for the PROD_IMAGE_SIZE system type. For more information, please see Defining System Types and Codes.
For
individual umbrella products under a general umbrella
product, please be sure to upload images that are specific to the
product option and choice. If you do NOT have the appropriate images,
it is recommended that you use the same images defined for the general
umbrella product. The reason for this is because when a web user clicks
on a product option and choice from the right navigation on the product
detail page of the umbrella product, the system displays the product images
and product alerts for the associated individual product under the umbrella
product. Therefore, a web user might expect to see what his/her selection
might look like when purchased.
To set up product images:
1. From the
Personify360 main toolbar, select Products > Product
Central.
The Product Maintenance search screen displays.
2. Click Search to find a product or click Create New Product.
3. From the
eBusiness Links task category, click Maintain Product
Images.
Please note that this task will not appear until you have set up eBusiness
Control for whatever product you are working on. For more information,
pleases see Defining a DCD
Product to Display on the Web.
The Product Images screen displays, as shown below.
4. From the
Default Image section, click Browse to upload
an image.
This is the first image a customer will see in the product listing in the
online store.
Personify360
supports all image files types, but will convert the image to .png when
uploaded.
5. As of 7.6.1, if necessary,
enter Alt Text.
The alternative text for an image is a descriptive representation of the
image as defined within the <IMG> tag as an ALT value. Search engines
use alt tag as a ranking factor in their image search results. If defined,
when the page with the Product
Detail .NET web control is loaded in a browser, the defined value
is included as the Alt content of the image in the page HTML, as shown
below.
If there is not a defined value for the Alt Text of the image, when the
page with the Product Detail .NET web control is loaded in a browser,
the product short name will be included as the Alt content of the image
in the page HTML.
6. From the Alternate
Image I and Alternate Image II
section, click Browse to upload
the alternate images that will display as two smaller thumbnails that
you can click to display as a large image like the default.
The new images will display in the boxes. If you would like to delete an
image, click Clear.
7. Once you have finished uploading your images, click Save.
Images will
be renamed in this format once they are uploaded: [productID].Def.[image
size].png. This is so that the system can logically place the images
where they are desired within the system. "Def" might also be
"Alt1" or "Alt2" depending on which image you are
uploading.