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When in Fotomoto a picture is set to 'Not for sale' the main buy button is still visible in the main controls beneath the image. Although the seperate buy buttons (buy print,etc..) will not be shown, the main buy button can be clicked and an empty Fotomoto screen will become visible...
Maybe it's better to or disable the buy button in the main controls or to give a message when it is clicked while the image is not for sale..
The way it is now, may be confusing for customers.

Actually, the buy button in the maincontrols does usually get removed if the image is not for sale. However, since the maincontrols do not update themselves for each picture when browsing a folder, it will sometimes stick.

I would want to question though, is it normal to mix photos for sale and photos not for sale in the same folder? This is the only situation where this will occur, because if a folder is accessed where images are generally not for sale, the icon in main controls will not appear.

We were considering only adding the purchase button by default in imagebuttons, but chose to add it into main controls also. You can easily disable it by going to settings -> controls.maincontrols -

In worst case scenario, you have a mixed folder of images for sale and strictly not for sale, and the visitor might get the cart-icon still available in main controls - If he clicks it, a Fotomoto window will display with no items. I spoke to Fotomoto about this, and they were going to change the window to display something like "Sorry, this image is not for sale" ...

No, I would not have this mix... This probably happened because one of the photos in the folder was not set to "Not for sale'... I don't see this anymore, now all the photo's in the same folder are 'Not for sale'... so, it works correct.

I was confused, because some folders did not show this buy button (as was correct, because all of them were set to "Not for sale'). But I didn't know the mechanism of: 'one photo still for sale => buy button is displayed for all of them, but is only functional for the one that is for sale'.

That would be an option... but personally I choose for all or none for sale.

That brings me to another question: in the Fotomoto blog is also said:
How can I disable a specific folder for Fotomoto?
Is it through specifying the folder parameters array 'controls.maincontrols.items' so fotomoto is not part of it?
Or are there other means?

Actually, its not entirely like this. The maincontrols are created for the first image that is viewed in the folder. If this image is for sale, the buy-button will display, and it will "stick" when clicking through the other images also (regardless of their state of sale). Likewise, if the first image viewed is not for sale, then the buy button will not display either. The controls will update if you go to and from thumbnails mode, or exit/enter the folder. This is therefore only an issue when you have mixed items for sale and not for sale in the same folder.


Good question - For now, you can add to the parameters from admin:

This will prevent the images from trying to get added to the Fotomoto Dashboard (although you could always set the default collection to be "not for sale" so that all new images get added there). It also prevents any chance of fotomoto interface elements displaying (although they would not display in any case for images that are not for sale).

Yes, that works allright.
For me this is the simplest thing to do... I set Fotomoto to add new images as 'For Sale' and protect the folders that contain images I do not want to sell with the above folder parameter.