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Media Upload

The task uploads your images into the shop's media library. It runs before Products Upload, because into the shop a product carries only the reference to its image and not the image itself.

It is the one task of the channel that does not talk to WooCommerce but to WordPress. The media library belongs to WordPress, so a different interface and a different sign-in apply to this task than to all the others: User Name and Password from the channel, not Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. What that is worth for troubleshooting is under WooCommerce.

What gets transferred

For each medium in TRADElube an entry is created in the media library, with the file name and the file's content. The image sizes the shop needs for the listing, the detail page and the gallery are generated by WordPress on upload. No second step is needed for that.

The images are only assigned during the product upload. This task merely deposits them. Which image hangs on which product and which one is the cover is decided by the Images section in the plan of Products Upload.

How the transfer plan is built

One plan with a single section and two assignments, both mandatory: File Path takes the medium's name, File Content the file. Since there is only one section, you see no tab bar above the assignments.

Here, exceptionally, there is nothing to set up. The plan is fully pre-filled, and individualizing it pays off in one case only: when the file names in the shop are meant to differ from those in TRADElube. Then you replace the source of File Path with a script.

Special features and limits

An image is recognized through its file name. Where a file of that name already sits in the media library, TRADElube goes on using it instead of creating a second one. So two different images with the same file name are one single image in the shop.

A medium without content fails. Both assignments are mandatory, and a record carrying only a name has nothing to transfer. The traces then hold an error on exactly that medium, and the remaining images go through all the same.

There is no other direction. You maintain your media library in TRADElube.

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