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August 24 2016, 11:02

Update on my blog about Hybris. I’ve added the ability to scale and crop images interactively in hybris. Yes, it’s not out-of-the-box. Strangely enough. And almost everyone needs it.

The process looks like this: the admin uploads a higher resolution image, selects via checkboxes which smaller resolution images need to be created, and adjusts the photo crop if the uploaded image’s proportions do not match the required ones. If after reducing an image to an icon too many important details are lost, the admin can select different scaling settings and crop the image differently for the icon field separately.

This is where the business part ends and the dark forest of technical details begins.

There were several challenges here. Since I used an external and modern plugin for cropping images (http://foliotek.github.io/Croppie/), and the hybris product manager is built on the ZK 3.6.3 framework for one-page application, released seven years ago, where they almost don’t let you do anything with external JavaScript, the task of marrying these different technologies was not easy. I had to put the external JavaScript in a popup, raise the context for the popup in the same extension, and come up with a mechanism for exchanging data with the old ZK (this part is the most unpleasant, as everything has already been thought out in newer versions).

Also, for resizing, I intentionally refused to use imageMagick and other external tools in favor of jScalr, which works well and is also multi-platform.

https://hybrismart.com/2016/08/23/image-crop-resize-in-product-cockpit/

August 22 2016, 01:25

I’ve released an update for the hybris Runtime Development Tools. This toolkit is designed to simplify and accelerate development on hybris. It will be clear not only to those initiated but also to the curious.)

The aim of these utilities is to shift from a web interface to the console. Usually, people do the opposite, replacing console commands with a web interface for aesthetics and convenience. But personally, I find the web interface painfully slow, especially when you need to perform the same operation 50 times a day. Plus, it’s not very customizable. The utilities allow solving many tasks faster and better than the standard Hybris interface. Most importantly, they can be used in conjunction with other tools, from Excel to Perl. For example, you can export all products and check in Excel if there are any anomalies in the data.

In the link below, there is a video where I demonstrate the capabilities of the new utilities. For a complete picture, also watch the video from the previous article on the blog.

https://hybrismart.com/2016/08/20/hybris-runtime-development-tools-update/