How to use project-level image rules

What are project-level image rules?

Project-level image rules are image rules that you can use at project-level. Image rules are like instructions you give Channable specifying which image template to apply to product image fields. Before project-level image rules, image rules could only be created per feed.

Limitations of feed-level image rules:

• Difficult to access: Requiring a feed setup to open the Image Editor involves a 3–4 click barrier. Project-level image rules enable 1-click template creation and better visibility in the Creatives tab.

• Meta links: It’s not possible to split image links (via commas/spaces) with rules to send multiple links to Meta in one field. With project-level image rules, this is possible because the Rules step occurs after the Image Editor where you can split these links.

• Inflexible "Pacman" logic: Feed-level image rules use an older rule infrastructure, which means that the first rule will apply to products and the subsequent rules will not be able to apply changes.

• Marketplaces: Workarounds using a "donor project" (exporting/re-importing) are necessary to use images in marketplaces.

  • Image rules active on project level means they occur before the Build step of a marketplace setup.

  • This means image links you wish to map will contain the image templates you created in the image editor and applied via the image rules . Learn more in our short video.

Note: Feed-level image rules are not affected by the addition of project-level image rules.

How to add project-level image rules

1. Go to [your project] > Creatives > Image rules. OR

   
2. From the Image Editor: Saving a new template for the first time:

   1. A “Template created” modal will show where you can click Apply template now to start using the template immediately.

   2. When you click Apply template now, your template is saved and you are redirected to the Image rules tab.

   3. In the Image rules tab, a rule will be created automatically with your new template already selected: If: All; Then: apply template

Important: Save & Run your image rules!

• With image rules on project level (Creatives > Image rules), the rules need to run to take effect, so you need to click Run Now (top right) or Save and run (bottom right).

• Saving a template in the image editor will not run the rules. After making changes to a template, navigate to the Image rules tab and click Run or Save and run to push those changes live.

  • The changes will go live at the next project run schedule (which depends on the your settings - hourly or daily)

Updating an existing template

When editing an existing template:

1. When you click Apply in the image editor, your changes are saved and you are redirected to the Image rules tab.

2. In the Image rules tab, a rule will be created automatically with your new template already selected: If: All; Then: apply template

OR

Saving a template for the first time without using it in a rule:

1. If you save a template without applying it in a rule, it will have the label ‘Not in use’ in [your project] > Creatives.

2. When you click Apply template, you’ll be navigated to image rules on project-level and a rule will be created automatically with this template selected.