Understanding View Types

Use view types to group images according to usage context, for example, by the image's size. You must first define a list of view types in the context of a catalog. When you create a new catalog (via the Business Manager or import), the catalog will automatically contain the following default view types:

You need to know the following about view types:

• A view type is a String id, with an optional name.
• View types must be unique per catalog.
• You must have at least one view type to be able to assign images.
• You can assign multiple view types to an image.
• Multiple images assigned to a view type can be viewed as a stack. The first image in the stack is assigned the virtual index number 0; the second is assigned the virtual index number 1, and so on.
  • You can't explicitly set an index number.
  • There can't be an unassigned index number between assigned index numbers.

  You can establish a relationship between different view types by ordering the view type image stacks. This means that related images must have the same position (index number) within the stack. For example, small for hover help and large for the product detail page, represent the same picture but are sized differently.

• You don't need to use all view types for every product.
• You can add a secondary image variation attribute, such as color. This enables you to specify an image for a combination of product attributes, for example, to show an image in view type large for red leather.