Adding a Media to a Post

You can add different types of media like images, video, audio, 3D Models, documents, and Drawings to any type of community item like Posts, Questions, Ideas, wikis, and WeDos. The behavior described in this scenario applies to any type of community item supporting an embedded media. For example, an idea. You can add a media from your community gallery, upload a media from your device or, if your media is an image, paste an image directly from the web.

On the cloud only: You can also add a media from 3DDrive,

3DDrive content can be accessed:

  • in a dashboard: if it has been added as a widget to the same tab along with 3DSwym, or if the Content right pane has been opened from the top bar.
  • In the 3DSwym app, if the Content right pane has been opened from the top bar.

Before you begin: See 3DSwym Roles to know more about your Create, Read, Update and Delete rights while working with Media or posts.
  1. Select either of the following:
    • If you add a media to a new post, click Attach or drop a media either from your device or, on a cloud environment, from 3DDrive into the Drop here section of the post.
    • If you want to add a media to an existing post, on the upper-right corner of the post, select Menu > Edit and click Attach or drop a media into the Drop here section either from your device or, on a cloud environment, from 3DDrive.

      The post appears along with the Rich Text editor.

  2. If you clicked Attach , select either of the following:
    • In the Add media from... menu, select:
      • one of your communities, to display the media available in the selected community.
      • My Media, to display your personal media only.
      • All Media, to display all the media available in all the communities of your platform.
      • 3DDrive, to select one or more media from 3DDrive. For more information, see Social and Collaborative: 3DDrive.
  3. Select either of the following:
    • If any, select one to n media in the gallery then click Add # Media.
    • If no media is available, you can do either of the following:
      • click Upload new media or drop them from your device to the Drop here section, and click Add # Media.
      • select one or more media from 3DDrive in the Add media from... menu.
    Tips:
    • To filter the media of the gallery by type, click any of the Picture , Animated Picture , Video , 3D Model or Document icons in the top right corner of the section.
    • While editing your post, you can easily:
      • drop one or more local media to the Drop here section of the post.
      • remove a media by selecting it and pressing the Del key.
      • hover your mouse over it to set its position in the text and its size using a context menu. The following commands are available:
        • Left. Aligns the media to the left and caps its width to 33% of the content editor width.
        • Small and Centered. Keeps the image position and caps its width to 33% of the content editor width.
        • Centered. Centers the image and keeps its original size. The width limit is 960 pixels.
          Note: If the media is a video or a 3DXML file, it will be directly played within the given content.
        • Right. Aligns the media to the right and caps its width to 33% of the content editor width.
      • paste text and images directly from the web. The images embedded in the text become available in the Gallery when you save your content.
        Note: Images cannot be copied in an on-premises environment. Only those that are declared in the source page as standard images, that is with an IMG tag, will be pasted.
      • Add a Caption. Adds a brief description to the selected image. Click the Caption text below the image to add your own text.
      • Insert a link. Adds a link to the image. Enter the URL of the external or internal target page that will appear when someone clicks the image. To retrieve the internal link of the content you want to share, click Share on the targeted content and in the Share by link tab, click Copy link. For more information, see Sharing Content.
      • Unlink. If any, removes the link of the image.
      • Edit. Displays the image editing toolbar that allows you to access some basic editing commands like cropping or flipping the image.
      • Use as post thumbnail. If there are at least two images, lets you select an image as the thumbnail of the content where the image is embedded. By default, the first media of the page is chosen as the content thumbnail. To set another image as the current thumbnail, hover over the other image and click Use as post thumbnail. This command remains inactive if the image is already the default and current thumbnail, otherwise it lets you set the current image as thumbnail or restores the default one.
        Note: This behavior is also available on different content types like Questions, Ideas and Wikis.

The media is added to the post.