CoreMedia Content Cloud allows you to manage images in the CoreMedia system that will be included in products and SKUs of the commerce system. You have to add a product or SKU to a Picture item.

For the Connector for HCL Commerce adding images is a two-step process. First you have to add a product or SKU to a Picture item and afterwards you have to add a specific URL to the product definition in the HCL system.

You don't have to assign every SKU to a picture content. If an SKU is not assigned to a picture content the asset management searches for the picture content assigned to the master product of the SKU or uses the default image for the site.

Assign a Product to an Image

In order to map an image from the CoreMedia system to a commerce product, you have to link from a Picture item to a product. Proceed as follows:

Figure 6.37. Assign a product to a picture

Connector for HCL Commerce specific

The Assigned Products property is the same that is used to fill the Asset Widget as described in Section 6.2.3.8, “Adding Content with the Asset Widget”. So, when you use both approaches in parallel, the product image in the PDP will be replaced with the content of the Asset Widget. All other occurrences of the product image (teaser, thumbnails...) will be replaced with the first image defined in the property.

Add the Image URL to the Product

Connector for HCL Commerce specific feature

In order to let the HCL Commerce system request the image from the CoreMedia system you have to add a CoreMedia URL to the product definition. The URL has the following format:

http://<cmshost>:<cmsport>/blueprint/servlet/catalogimage/product/<storeId>/en_US/thumbnail/<SKUNumber>.png

http://<cmshost>:<cmsport>/blueprint/servlet/catalogimage/product/<storeId>/en_US/full/<SKUNumber>.png

You will get the URL from your system administrator.

Now, you will see the new image from the CoreMedia system displayed in the HCL Commerce.

Figure 6.38. Set Product Image URLs in Management Center

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Adding Default Image

When there is no image defined for a category, an SKU or a master product, the system will look for a default image. Proceed as follows, to define the default image:

Figure 6.39. Set default catalog picture in Studio

Now you have defined a default image for your site.