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Media

Once images are copied to the eMuseum home media directory, they should be immediately visible when the associated records are displayed in eMuseum. Make sure to review a few records on your eMuseum site to confirm that the images are appearing correctly and that the image sizes are acceptable. The three derivative formats (e.g., Preview, Thumbnail, and Postagestamp) are created automatically from the Full size image that you place in your eMuseum image folder.

Location

A path can be anything the operating system supports (e. g. file path, UNC path, network drive). A relative path will be located in the <EMUSEUM_HOME> directory.

The directory on the hard drive where media files are stored in.

The directory on the hard drive for caching transformed media.

Display Settings

Check to enable the full size image overlay, allowing users to click images using the full size format to enlarge them in a lightbox overlay.

Check to disable right clicking on images.

This option determines whether eMuseum should attempt to load tiled versions of the image in place of Full size images when available. When this option is enabled, eMuseum will search the /media directory for a folder that matches the name of the image to be loaded, which is the naming convention for tiled images.

This color will be used as background for the padding for image derivatives.

The count of simultaneously executed image transformations. A higher number means that more images can be processed simultaneously but also requires more memory.

Alternative Text

The field of the Media record to use as source for the alternative text.

The maximum count of characters of the alternative text. If the text is longer, an ellipsis will be added.

The character to use as ellipsis if the alternative text is longer than the configured length.

Source Settings

Check to allow eMuseum to search the /userMedia folder for image before going to /media. This allows overriding of specific images.

If this option is selected, media will not be fetched from the configured media directory but from the full, absolute path stored in TMS.

If this option is selected, the “image available” filter checks if the actual file exists. This will lead to better filter results but will increase the index time. If this is not set, only the database record is checked.