Show image archive

Here you can access all the image material located in the central image archive, a common archive accessible to all users. Here you can add new images, create folders, set metadata for images and delete images.

You can also save images to a specific archive associated with a specific page. This archive is called Page images. These images cannot be accessed from the image archive, but must be based on the page that has images in its local archive.

You can upload the following file formats to the image archive. Add other file formats to the File archive.

Upload images to the image archive

To upload images to the image archive, click on the Upload icon. To place the image in a folder, first appoint the folder, and then click Upload. It is also possible to drag and drop the images into the folder afterwards.

Mandatory metadata on images

If you have mandatory metadata on a folder in the image archive and you upload an image there, the metadata view will be displayed for the editor.

You must then fill in the values marked with a red asterisk, as these are mandatory for the image.

Convert image to WebP format

For performance reasons, you can now right-click on an image in the image archive and convert it to WebP format. WebP is an image format developed by Google that uses lossless compression to reduce the file size of images. The format is approximately 30% smaller in size than an image in jpeg or png.

A new window appears where the images are displayed side by side and you can see the size of the different image formats below the image.

You will receive confirmation if you want to convert the image.

Create folder in the image archive

To create a folder in the file archive, click on Create new. Name the folder and click OK. To then place images in the folder, select the folder and click Upload.  Or, move existing images from the image archive to the folder. To do this, select one or more images (hold down CTRL when you select), and then drag the images into the folder.

Add image descriptions, captions and/or image sources to images

To fill in general alternative text (image description), caption and image source for an image, do the following:

1. Select the image where you want to add text.

2. On the right, select the Image description field. Fill in the value. Press Enter.

3. Select the Caption field. This text will be visible below the image if you select that option under the Texts tab.

4. Select the Image source field. This text will be visible below the image if you select that option under the Texts tab.

5. Done! These texts are now available for selection under the Texts tab in the image module.

References

Below, you can see where the image/file is used on the website. A list of information will then be displayed:

Delete image

To delete an image from the image archive, locate the image and select it. Right-click on the image and select Delete.

The image now goes to the recycle bin (until someone empties it). Thus, you can always go to the recycle bin and restore the image if you deleted the wrong image.

If you try to delete an image that is used anywhere on the website, you will get information about this:

You can either then go to the respective page and delete the image module before you take the image from the image archive or you can choose not to delete the image. If you delete the image and ignore the message, the web pages (deleted image) will receive red crosses.