Fwd: Re: [opencms-dev] Images and best practices for OpenCMS 6.0

Jon Sharp jon.sharp at j2ssolutions.com
Wed Aug 17 09:13:47 CEST 2005 

I agree that #2 is an issue, as in other dialogs (eg to insert a link) 
there is a folder icon
that does an excellent job finding local content. Could this be added?

In the meantime an extract from my User Guide:  (there are graphics of the 
icons - which may not come out in the news group - so use your imagination!)


Inserting images

The image files must first be loaded into your local CMS folder or taken 
from the central 'Image gallery'.
To load into your local CMS folder from your PC:
    * navigate to folder of your pages
    * click
    C:/temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg
    , click Browse to go to the folder on your PC where your images are, 
select the image, click 'Open'
    * click 'continue >>'
    * ensure file type id is 'Image'
    * enter a title in the 'Title:' field and optional description, and 
click 'Finish'

To insert into your page:
    * click on image in CMS explorer view to open a new window
    * copy the URL in the browser address field
    * open page in editor and position cursor where you want image to be
    * click
    C:/temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image003.gif
     and paste URL into 'picture source' field
    * add 'alternate text' and layout details as desired
    * click OK - the image should be displayed. You can also move it around 
table cells etc by dragging with the mouse

To insert into your page from the Image Gallery:
    * click
    C:/temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image004.gif
     in the editor
    * click on the upper image names to display the image in the lower 
window (note that there are more than 1 pages).
    * click
    C:/temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image005.gif
     to insert the selected image into your page

To load into the Image Gallery from your PC:
You need to be logged on as administrator, then:
    * in the Explorer view changeSite dropdown to '/'
    * expand the 'system' folder tree:



At 16:11 16/08/2005, you wrote:
>Joachim,
>
>I'm a little confused with item #2. When I click the
>insert picture icon in the WYSIWYG HTML editor it does
>not upload the image. As a matter of fact the src
>attribute in the HTML source still points to my local
>drive. When I publish the page, it still isn't
>uploaded and when I look at the online project, I
>still see the src attribute trying to access my local
>drive.
>
>Am I doing something wrong? It appears that in order
>to use an image in an HTML page, you must load it into
>an image gallery and then insert the image from the
>image gallery.
>
>I am cool with the answers to #1 and #3.
>
>Ricky
>
>--- Joachim Arrasz <info at arrasz.de> wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:39:35 +0200
> > From: Joachim Arrasz <info at arrasz.de>
> > To: The OpenCms mailing list
> > <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
> > Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Images and best practices
> > for OenCMS 6.0
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > > 1. Is it considered best practice to store all
> > images
> > > in the image galleries?
> >
> > Only if you want to enable your redacteurs to work
> > with them.
> >
> > > 2. In the WYSIWYG HTML editor there is a button to
> > use
> > > images. This button accesses the images from my
> > local
> > > hard drive and not the VFS. Why do this since the
> > > images appear to have to be pulled from the VFS to
> > be
> > > used?
> >
> > This is the usual upload feature of opencms. You can
> > use this to upload
> > an image to the vfs and then add it to the page you
> > edit.
> >
> > > 3. Is it not correct to use images in the HTML
> > content
> > > and instead to access them from JSPs?
> >
> > No, this works fine, you have to differ between
> > theese features
> >
> > hth
> >
> > Achim
> >
> > --
> > Dipl. Inf.(FH) Joachim Arrasz -
> > joachim.arrasz at synyx.de
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> > Provider
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> >
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