Forums / Setup & design / Image datatype and image aliases
Pascal France
Monday 06 October 2008 8:11:28 am
Hi,
I use eZ Publish 3.9.3
When I use the default image class to import some images, I get 2 aliases of it: large and reference.1°/ Why do I get only these 2 alias while I don't use any override of image.ini and while the size of the original image is 3885x2565 ? I should also get small, medium and rss aliases.
2°/ Why don't I get alias if I create my own image class ? I haven't found any place in image.ini where to specify the name of a class which should be affected by the creation of aliases.Is it hard-coded somewhere ?
Pascal
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Gaetano Giunta
Monday 06 October 2008 11:18:31 am
1 - Maybe because images variations are created on-the-fly when you use them in a given template and the template is displayed?It sure would save a lot of space and processing time compared to "create all variations immediately for all images"...
2 - usage of image aliases is not tied to classes, but rather to templates
Principal Consultant International Business Member of the Community Project Board
Monday 06 October 2008 1:02:29 pm
Hi Gaetano,
Thank you for your reply.
As all aliases are created at the time we upload an image with the online editor, I was amazed not seeing all aliases in the storage directory after uploading an image from an image dataype.
I just tested the on-the-fly image creation and, of course, it works perfectly.