Revision as of 16:11, 10 September 2015

1 Overview

The Information Centre can display images and multimedia but how do you do it cleanly and correctly?

This article discusses a number of different media types and options.

2 Images

A web page is not like a Word document. Embedding pictures is not as easy. A bit of work has to be done first.

There are a few options.

2.1 Option 1 - Unsecure images

If you have a general image you want to include get the URL of the image. This can be done from Google Images or many other sources.

Go to https://www.google.ie type in your keywords Click on Images Click the image you want Click "View Image" Copy the URL of the image from the address bar

Alternately you can use a feature of Firefox of Chrome called "Copy Image Location"

With the URL you can now put this into your Information Centre message.

Lets take an example URL. The bxp logo from the main http://www.bxpsoftware.com website. The URL is http://www.bxpsoftware.com/wp-content/themes/bxp/images/headerLogo.png

Open your Information Centre message.

Main Menu > Information Centre > General > Add Item to the Information Centre >

Go to the body and locate the icon.

In source put in the URL and put in a description as well

When done click ok

This is a quick easy solution. However consistency wise its not ideal. This approach assumes all of your users have full access to the Internet. It also assumes that the owner of the image will not remove it. On the net and in business this is not always the case.

2.2 Option 2 - Custom images

So if you can save the image to your machine first, then you can upload it into a custom folder in bxp. This custom folder allows you to upload any amount of images for this kind of use.

Main Menu > System Access Management > System Management > Custom Folder - File Upload >

Here you upload your image. bxp when it has finished transferring up the image will display on screen the new URL to get to that image.

I can now use that URL the same way we did above.

The challenge with this is approach is that that URL is accessible by the whole world. It is not locked away inside bxp. It is unlikely that the world would access it, as we do a lot to keep search engines away but that is no guarantee.

You can try our test image here

2.3 Option 3 - Secure images

There is a far better option. If you upload the material to an eCourse page you can create the URL from the uploaded asset.

Create a book for your assets. Upload your image to the page. The page will look like this.

The URL of the asset will look like this https://ww3.allnone.ie/client/client_xxx/main/file.asp?strType=eCourse&intFile=7715&strSystem=2

Unless you are logged into bxp you will not be able to access this URL.