Purpose: Manage the images displayed on various pages of the public-facing www.lcso.org website.

Required Permissions: Access to this tool is restricted to IT and Digital Media.

  1. "Add a New Image" button (green): Opens an image editor for a new image.
  2. Edit Image button: Opens an image editor for an existing image.
  3. Images which are marked as being Carousel images can be reordered here, with the left/right buttons in the top left of the carousel preview. The order you see these images here is the order they are displayed in the carousel rotation on the public website. (The order of images in the grid above is by their image id, an arbitrary distinction.)
  4. If you would like to view the public page these images are the source for, click this button to open it in a new tab.
  5. Why do images have a number associated? These images ID's are used by the image calling api for the website, so the web developer needs to be able to identify those ID's from this page.


Image Editor:

  1. New image file input: Load a new image file from your computer. A preview of the new image will display, but changes do not apply until you click Save.
  2. Image Description: this is for internal purposes, use it for notes-to-self or meta-info about the picture (e.g. date taken, people in the photo, etc)
  3. Carousel Image checkbox: If you would like the image to be included in a carousel rotation on the page, check this box. It is possible that the web developer has disabled the carousel rotation on the target page, in which case this checkbox won't apply, but most pages managed by this tool utilize an image carousel.
  4. Save: Want to keep your changes?
  5. Remove: This image will no longer display on this Image Management page. If the web developer has made a specific inclusion of an image ID, it will still appear on the public page until subsequently removed at that level. So you cannot accidentally delete a picture, this option is primarily to clear out unused photos over time.
  6. Close the editor: Discards any unwanted changes. 


Original Author: Douglas Clelland