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 Hi Sven,

My customer threw me a curve ball at launch time: his old site is accessed by a phone app that sends the user to the website when the user wants to purchase a particular image. So. I need to provide a url construct for the phone app that points to a specific image by file name (in my case file names are numbers).

So, I tried revealing the actual url for a specific image by turning off Search Engine Friendly URLs and navigating to an image. Doing this breaks the images loading in both Events List thumbnail page and the Event thumbnail page. The links are there though and clicking on one brings up a url like this:

http://www.1414cconsulting.com/h3test/index.php?&mode=full&folder=tiergarten-ii&file=18215.jpg&option=com_eventgallery&view=resizeimage

Which is the image but not in a lightbox so there is no cart icon to click to buy.

Is it possible to come up with a url that brings up a specific image by file name in the lightbox so that tser can click the shopping cart and buy it? Even better could be the cart comes up as well (I'm currently using the internal cart).

I set up a test menu item Pageable List but no images are displayed? I tried a sync without change.

http://www.1414cconsulting.com/h3test/page-test

Am I missing something obvious?

Hi Sven,

After your post I took a look at the console and saw the slew of ugly errors. I had jQuery Easy enabled only for my main Gallery menu item. Enabling JQE for my test menu item cleared the problem. It also works for a hidden menu item which is good since I want the site to use a lightbox presentation and the single page display used only for calls from the phone apps.

The phone apps can only reference the file name of the image, not the category. I believe I can assign an image to only one category. Does this mean I need to create a new category and upload an additional copy of each image so that I have a category containing all images? The site will have around 1000 high resolution images. I can make copies at a lower resolution but It's still a lot of disk space as well as maintaining double inventory. Is there a way I can avoid this that you can think of?

Rgds