Managing images

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 (go to RiSE > Page Builder > Manage images) and by all content items that reference uploaded images, such as Content HTML, Content Block, and Contact Profile Picture.

For clarity, content items 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.

  • Event images are stored in /Events.
  • Product images are stored in /Products.
  • Contact (individual and organization) images are stored in /Profile.

Note: Theme-related images are managed within appropriate theme folders.

To change the upload folder for your images, go to Settings > RiSE > Page builder configuration, and change the CM.ImagePath variable. You can set this in Page Builder configuration.

For best results, choose one of the following locations for your uploaded images folder:

  • On your web root: …\ASI\iMIS\Net\
  • In the SharedContent folder: …\ASI\iMIS\Net\SharedContent\

Note: The path to this directory must be the same on all servers that host your iMIS sites.

Before you can use image files in your content items, you must upload them to the server. You can do this while configuring a Content Html content item, 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 content item:
    1. In the editor's toolbar, click the Image Manager button.
    2. (Browse Files tab) Open the folder from which you want to upload a new image.
    3. (Upload Image tab) Click Browse.
    4. Select the local file that you want to upload.
    5. Click OK.
    6. Click Upload.

    • Note: To reuse an image hosted on an external server, use the Content Html content item and insert a standard HTML <IMG> tag to that image.

  • Using Image Manager – In Page Builder, select Manage images.
    1. Go to RiSE > Page Builder > Manage images.
    2. Open the folder in which you want to upload a new image, or click the New Folder icon to create a new folder.
    3. Click the Upload icon and browse to the file on your computer that you want to upload.
    4. Click OK.
    5. 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 have already uploaded.

Note: Do not use Image Editor with transparent images. The transparent background becomes black. To edit transparent images, right-click on the image and select Save Image As to save a copy locally. Edit the image with your preferred program, then upload the image to iMIS again, overwriting the original copy.

  • To upload images, you must have Content Upload content authority group permissions.
  • To upload from a network location, first map that folder to a drive letter on your workstation.
  • Theme images (used by Big Button Panel content item) do not auto-sync between servers.