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  • Posted in Plugins
  • Started 2 years ago by arkirkland
  • 6 posts by 4 users
  • Latest reply from CathyHajo

  1. arkirkland Posted 2 years ago

    I am experimenting with Omeka and ExhibitBuilder with a collection of historic costume. We have great hopes for it as a tool we can share with our students. I was excited to see that the data entry stage allowed me to enter more than one image for each item, as I have many images (detail shots, etc.) of each costume. However, when I went into ExhibitBuilder, I found that only the first image for each item was available to be used in an exhibit. Is there something I'm missing? Is there a way to access those other images from within ExhibitBuilder?

    My best solution so far has been to enter each image as a separate item, but that requires entering the same data multiple times. Also, a collection of 43 images is different from a collection of 8 objects, for which each has several images.

    Any advice? Or is this something that we need to recommend for future development?

    Thank you!

  2. SheilaBrennan (Omeka Outreach Team) Posted 2 years ago

    Hi arkirkland,

    You are correct that the Exhibit Builder does not allow you choose from all of the files available within one item. At this point, you would have to make each image an item. Or,provide some explanatory text in the exhibit about accessing the other images since clicking on the first image takes the visitor to the full item and will show all of the files.

    You will be happy to hear that we have a ticket in for that feature in the dev queue for a future release.

    Good luck with the projects,
    Sheila

  3. kkay Posted 2 years ago

    There is an awkward work-around if you are comfortable with html and poking around the database.

    In my exhibits I wanted to include some images that, for various reasons, we didn't want to catalog as items. Plus I wanted links to some pdfs and non-image items that are cataloged. For those things I added html <img> and < a > tags directly into the DB table that holds exhibit text (unfortunately you cannot currently just add html in the text area of ExhibitBuilder because the WYSIWYG editor strips it out -- I've commented on this on the Dev site).

    So for your purposes you could continue to add catalog multiple images as one ITEM, but for exhibits add html and refer to the web path for the individual pics you'd like to include.

    Let me know if you need more detailed instructions.

  4. SheilaBrennan (Omeka Outreach Team) Posted 2 years ago

    Thanks for reminding about this workaround.

  5. arkirkland Posted 2 years ago

    Thanks so much for these recommendations!

  6. CathyHajo Posted 2 months ago

    Hi - We have the same question and I'm hoping that there is now a way to get around it without using the workaround.

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