Color Swatches feature?

[ADDISON74]

What do you thing about adding Color Swatches in the list for removing the orphan images?

[fballiano]

for sure, I never used the swatches so I'd have to look into that :-)

[ADDISON74]

Check this out: https://info2.magento.com/rs/magentosoftware/images/Magento_Community_Edition_User_Guide_Latest.pdf.

Pages 209 - 226 Chapter 16: Swatches

[fballiano]

from what I'm reading swatches images are in wysiwyg/swatches folder, which we should exclude from the processing right?

[ADDISON74]

You're right the swatch images are stored in this directory /media/wysiwyg/swatches.

Your extension checks already the contents of the WYSIWYG directory and lists all orphan files. The question is whether we should separate the swatches and treat them in a special way.

[fballiano]

in the meanwhile I pushed c76c077 which avoid processing wysiwys/swatches if swatches are enabled (during a wysiwyg sync)

[ADDISON74]

Excellent. Skipping this directory was very important to avoid any issues.

After investigating custom swatches feature here are more insides. Before using the swatches coming from this directory you have to do the following actions:

• Set up a new value for the attribute by edit it (e.g. Color = Red)
• Create an image file then uploaded it to /media/wysiwyg/swatches directory
• Choose the Color value from the drop-down list in product edit page.

In conclusion, a swatch image becomes orphan when its value it is not associated with an attribute value (e.g. attribute Color has no Red value, but there is a red.png file).