Image Variants

I have a Image Variant record created in Image Variants Table in Console.
The name of the Variant is "Image Variant for Publication 1".
I attached this variant to a Lookup Image field in the main table.
The name of the field in the main table is Product Image.
I generated the image variants in the Image Manager. I have assigned the images to the products in the main table.
Now I created another Image Variant called "Variant 2".
I am trying to assign this variant also to the same lookup Image field in the main table.
The System is letting me pick either "Image Variant for Publication 1" or "Variant 2".
I want to assign both. Is it a bug or am I missing something?
To test this:
I created Variant 3 and Variant 4.
I am able to assign Variant 1, 2 and 3 to the same field now. The difference is these three are new variants, for which no variants have been created in Image Manager.
Any assistance in this regard is appreciated.

Assignment of Variants in the console.
If the variants are new, I am able to assign, any number of them in the console.
But if the variant is NOT new, and some image variants are created in the image manager, and the images have been assigned to products in the Data Manager, then it is not letting me
in the Console, to pick both the old and some new.
The system behaves like all multiple new ones OR the old one.
For fields in the console, for which I am attaching the multiple new ones, it works fine.
Version 5.5 SP4 [5.5.35.16]
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get failed, the status code is -2147483647
Anyone know how to setup image variants?
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Forrest

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Hello.
I have a repository where I use different Image Variants. My problem is that when I upload an Image I have to manually go into the Image manager to generate the variants. I would like to have an automatic way of doing this. CLIX can not be used.
Does anyone have an idea how to do this?
Best regards
John-Kjell

Hi,
You can automatically generate the image variants.For this you import the images in data manager.In Data manager select the Images table right click in record pane and add a data group.If data group is already present then add the image to that data group or else add a data group (as a child) and then add tha image file to it.Select the option Store in Repository.Then click OK to import the image .After the image is imported in data manager the image variants are automatically filled.
In your console you have a field say images of data type Lookup image.
Then in your source create a field named images where you add reference to the images say href1,href2 etc.
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I am trying to extract image variants through MDM Java API. Currently, we have several variants per image.
I could not find the information on how to extract all variants for each image,
We have RetrieveBlobCommand class that has set/getImageVariant, I haven't tested. Suppose it has some functionality, it can update/get a single variant.
In my case, I have 3 variants per image and would like to fetch them. We have getImageVariants on SchemaRepository class but we need to know how to associate each variant with original image.
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I have defined in the Console, the required Image Variants.
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Now how do I link the image variants to the products?
Does the image variants have a different name than the original?
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Adhappan,
You do not ever need to link variants. You only link the originals and then decide which variant to pull when exporting, publishing,... The variant names are the same as the original.
For example, when you do an export and select to export images you can determine which variants you want to export. When in the Publisher you can tell it which variant to use to print. And for the web you can pull different variants.
Not real sure what you are trying to do with the Syndicator, but if you are trying to pull images from the repository I'd assume that there is an option in there to tell it which variant to use.
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Associating Image variants with image lookup fields

In the console reference guide you can find the following explanation on the use of Image variants:
"A variant defines the structure of the image but does not specify if the variant is actually required for a particular image.
Instead, each image lookup field in the repository has a Variants property that allows you to associate one or more variants with the image lookup field, and in so doing, identify which variants should be generated when an image is associated with that particular field.
For each variant, all the images associated with that variant will be generated according to the specifications of the variant and the crop/rotate settings stored for that image. MDM tracks the changes to the variant definitions, the variant associations, each image, and the crop/rotate settings for each image, and thus know when the variants need to be regenerated."
My question is the following:
Assuming that the definitions of the Image variants are made via the console and thus present in the Image variants table,...
Is it possible to change the Variant property of the image lookup field(s) in the main table through the Java API?
So that you could write a function that automatically associates specified Image variants with all the image lookup fields in the main table of a certain repository.
I hope somebody can help,
Joeri

Did you ever figure out your problem?
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Image variants width/length scale

Hi
This is from the Console Manual:
Image variants
Scale
Should the original image be scaled (Yes/No)?
Width
The maximum width of the scaled variant (integer value).
Height
The maximum height of the scaled variant (integer value).
what is the scale measure?
mm, inch, point etc. ?
/Kurt
Update:
found it in "layouts, default units" = "Inch"
Edited by: Kurt Jørgensen on Dec 1, 2010 10:50 AM

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Hi Adam,
From MDM Documentation (can be found here [http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmdm71/helpdata/en/49/0505fba870404ce10000000a42189b/frameset.htm]):
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Hi all-
I'm loading some CMYK images into my repository (5.5 SP05) and trying to use the default thumbnail variant in a web application. For some reason, even though the color space of the thumbnail is set to RGB, it doesn't get converted when the thumbnail is created. This results in a .jpg that is CMYK (and isn't understood by a browser).
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Tim,
Sounds like this may be a bug. Since the Thumbnails are set to RGB, and cannot be changed, it seems as though they should be generated in RGB color space.
One thing to try. Go into the images table, right click on an image in the records window, and select Generate Thumbnail. I believe it will actually regenerate the thumbnail. Maybe this will regenerate with the RGB color space. That's my only idea. Other than that you really don't have much control over the thumbnails.
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My customer has a requirement that all Web Variants be square in dimension. The example: We create a "Web Standard" variant, set scale to "Yes", set width and height to a maximum of 150x150; and the original is 300x150.
We want the variant to be generated on a 150x150 white palette, with the actual image centered at 150x75.
I've been through table 37 in the MDM Console Reference Guide but cannot come up with the correct combination of parameters to produce the desired results.
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Mark Werkiser

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