Pictures are usually created in a picture book, a folder adapted to pictures, that enables you to view your pictures in a slideshow, for instance. But they can be used in regular folders and in workspaces directly.
In Nuxeo DM, pictures (created in a picture book, in a workspace or in a folder) have some specific features available:
- rotation
- picture specific metadata extraction
- different size presentation
In this section, we will see how to:
Manage picture books
Picture books are folders adapted to hold only pictures. As so, you have some specific parameters that you need to fill in when you create a picture book.
A picture book can only hold pictures and other picture books.
Create a picture book
You need to have at least Write right to be able to create a picture book.
To create a picture book:
- In the Content tab of the workspace, click on the New Document button.
- On the window Available document types, click on the desired document.
- Fill in the document's creation form.
- Click on the Create button.
Picture book creation parameters
Field |
Description |
|---|---|
Title |
Name of the picture book |
Description |
What the picture book is about |
Slideshow duration |
Time in seconds during which each picture of the pictures in the book will be displayed during the slideshow |
Views |
Different views and formats available for the pictures available in the picture book.
|
Edit a picture book
You need to have at least Write right to edit a picture book.
When you edit a picture book, you edit some of its properties: title, description and slideshow duration. You cannot edit the picture views available in the picture book.
To edit a picture book:
- Click on the Edit tab of the picture book.
- Edit the edition form's fields.
- Optionally type a comment to keep track of why you edited the picture book.
- Click on the Save button.
Modifications are saved and the fact that you edited the picture book is tracked in History tab.
View the content of a picture book
Beside the Content tab that enable the same features as in a workspace or a folder (selection of documents), a picture book has a View tab displays the book's content as thumbnails. It is the picture book's default tab. However, the regular Content tab used on all folderish content is available on picture book as well, to make it easy to have a synthetic view of the pictures author, versions, ect.
In the View tab of the picture book, click once on a picture to select it (keep CTRL touch pressed if you want to select several pictures) and click twice on it to consult it. Selected pictures are displayed on an orange background.
A Slideshow tab is also available on picture books, in which the pictures are displayed in a slideshow.
Manage pictures
Pictures can be created in picture book, in folders and in workspaces. You can add pictures using all document creation means:
When pictures are created, the EXIF and IPTC metadata of the pictures are automatically extracted. You can consult them in the Picture metadata tab. EEXIF and IPTC metadata are not editable.
When they are created, pictures are displayed in the View tab, that enables some picture management specific actions. Should the picture be wrongly oriented, you can rotate it using the right and left rotation buttons available on this tab. It is in this tab that you can see the different sizes available for the picture (sizes available are defined for the whole picture book) and download it in the format you need. Default size is medium size.
Whatever the folder they have been created in, their behaviour and the actions available are the same: you will be able to preview and annotate them, link them to other documents, tag them, publish them and subscribe to email alerts. Note that workflow is not available on pictures.
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