To help you to organize your site images where they cannot be overwritten during upgrades, iMIS uses one system-defined path for all of the image files that you upload. This setting is honored by the Image Manager (Content Designer > Manage images) and by all iParts that reference uploaded images, such as Content HTML, Content Block, and Contact Profile Picture.
For clarity, iParts that manage images specific to a feature organize those files into subfolders below your default. Any filenames ending with _T are thumbnails that iMIS generates for you.
■ Contact (individual and organization) images are stored in /Profile
Tip: Theme-related images are managed within appropriate theme folders.
To change the upload folder for images
To change the upload folder for your images, you change the CM.ImagePath variable in your SystemConfig table. You can set this in Content designer configuration.
For example, this SQL command changes the path to a folder called foo in the root directory:
Update SystemConfig set ParameterValue = '~/foo' where ParameterName = 'CM.ImagePath'
For best results, choose one of these locations for your uploaded images folder:
■ On your web root: …\ASI\iMIS\Net\
■ In the SharedContent folder: …\ASI\iMIS\Net\SharedContent\
Important: The path to this directory must be the same on all servers that host your iMIS sites.
To upload images
Before you can use image files in your iParts, you must upload them to the server. You can do this while configuring a Content Html iPart, or you can do this using Image Manager, which makes it easy to upload and organize a set of files.
■ Using the ContentHtml editor - While defining a content record, add a Content Html iPart and configure it to display the HTML editor. In the editor's toolbar, click the Image Manager button. In the Browse Files tab, open the folder from which you want to upload a new image, go to the Upload Image tab and click Browse. Select the local file that you want to upload, click OK, then click Upload.
Tip: To reuse an image hosted on an external server, use the Content Html iPart and insert a standard HTML <IMG> tag to that image.
■ Using Image Manager - In Content Designer, select Manage images. Open the folder in which you want to upload a new image, or click the New Folder icon to create a new folder. Click the Upload icon and browse to the file on your computer that you want to upload, click OK, then click the Upload link at the right of the Upload field. To cancel the upload, click the Upload icon in the toolbar.
Both the HTML editor and the Image Manager have a built-in Image Editor that can perform some basic edits to images that you already uploaded.
Caution: Do not use Image Editor with transparent images: the transparent background becomes black. To edit transparent images, save a copy locally (right-click and select Save Image As…), edit it with your preferred program, then upload it to iMIS again, overwriting the original.
Troubleshooting
■ To upload images, you must have Content Upload CAG permissions.
■ To upload from a network location, first map that folder to a drive letter on your workstation.
■ Theme images (which Big Button Panel uses) do not auto-sync between servers.