The process of adding images to the blog toolkit is very straightforward. The database itself is a mini content manager at the end of the day.

A key feature is that when you refer to the images in your HTML, there is no need to refer to them as:

<img src="database/view/document/$file/image.jpg">

Instead you just use:

<img src="image.jpg">

The system takes care of the rest. To me this is a big time saver plus is very helpful if you want to develop your content using a 3rd party HTML editor.

Adding your images

In order to add images, you need to go to the images view which can be accessed from the 'Content Management' group of options on the left hand navigator.

When you have gone into that view, you will see any images that are already contained within your blog database. By default the ProjectDX logo will be there. To add an image click on the 'Upload Image Files' button.

You will then see the standard windows file selection dialog. Click on the images you wish to upload to your database (using the ctrl key if you wish to upload multiple files). Then click the 'Open' button to confirm.

A confirmation box will then appear:

You may then need to click 'F9' to refresh your view. The images you just uploaded will then appear in your view.

By default when you upload images the description of your image is the file name. To change this, click into an 'image storage document'. There is a description field - put your image description here and click 'Save Close'.

There is also an advanced option of once you have uploaded an image, you can refresh it from the file system if you have changed it. I will be adding advanced options at some stage to do this automatically, but to do it manually you can use the 'Refresh Image' from the 'Actions' menu.

Note: whilst writing this documentation I notice this feature is not working!! - Will be fixed for the next release.

Questions? - steve.castledine@projectdx.org