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Managing Media

Kani Peiris
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Introduction

The Encapto Media Module is the area of the Cloud Deck where images that will display as part of a campaign, portal, or other Encapto feature can be stored and managed. In general, Media are created along with the items that are using them. For example, banners, logos, and background images can be uploaded during creation of a portal.

The Media Module offers an alternative means of both uploading images for use across Cloud Deck modules and of managing Media items that have been created in the course of using other modules.

 

Media Types

There are currently five media types used in Encapto:

  • Campaign assets – display in end user devices as part of a Campaign on connection to a network on which the Campaign is enabled.

  • Communication assets – header banners displayed in emails used for Email Auth Methods.

  • Backgrounds – display as a background to Encapto Portals.

  • Banners – display within Portal pages as banners across the portal page.

  • Logos – used in Portal branding.

 

Create and Edit Media Items from List View

To access Media Items, logon to the Encapto Wi-Fi Cloud Deck account.

  1. Click Media under ASSET LIBRARY.

    TIP: This view (not shown) shows folders for each of Campaign images, Backgrounds, Banners, Logos and Email branding.

  2. Click on the folder for the type of Media to be created or edited (not shown).

    TIP: This view shows all existing media of the selected type. If no Media have been uploaded a prompt will appear with a button to Get started. Clicking this button has the same effect as clicking the +New button.

  3. Search Media Items by name or tag in the search bar; or

  4. Click a tag to search Media Items by that tag.

  5. Select one or more Media Items using the checkbox, and:

    1. Delete the Item; or

    2. Edit tags on the Item (will become an Add tags button if multiple Items are selected).

    3. Rename the Item (only available for single selections).

  6. Click on a non-active area of a line item to edit the Item.

  7. Click a link under ASSIGNED TO to access the Item that the Media has been assigned to (this will depend on the Media type you are viewing – in the example in fig 1, Campaigns).

  8. Preview an Item.

  9. Click the +New button to add new Media Items of this type.

Create Media Items

To create Media items, click the +New button as described above and:

  1. Give the asset a name.

  2. Set the target devices as either laptop (landscape) or mobile (portrait) (for Campaign images only).

  3. Click the Upload file button and select the desired media file.

    TIP: Take careful note of the image size guidelines to ensure optimum display.

  4. Check the Optimise image checkbox and use the slider to apply compression to your image for faster loading.

    TIP: Image compression can also be achieved in most image editors – if image compression has already been used, ignore step 4.

  5. Save.

The new media file will now be available for use in its relevant Module.

 

Edit Media items

To edit any Media Item, click on the relevant folder type and click on a non-active area of the line item from the list view. From here you can:

  • Edit the name, tags and notes from the Details tab; and

  • Change the image from the Content tab.

The Media item will now be available for use in Campaigns, Portals and Surveys.