Inserting a thumbnail?
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When inserting an image into a content block, is there any way to insert an image's thumbnail rather than just the full size image?
Edit: I know I can go to the file manager and use Chrome's inspector to get the URL (eg. /application/files/1014/1764/5380/blahblah.jpg), but I'd rather not do this since if I choose to replace a file, it won't update the thumbnail on the page automatically.
Edit: I know I can go to the file manager and use Chrome's inspector to get the URL (eg. /application/files/1014/1764/5380/blahblah.jpg), but I'd rather not do this since if I choose to replace a file, it won't update the thumbnail on the page automatically.
Thanks for the response MrKDilkington, however both solutions are less than ideal since C5 already creates thumbnails when you upload an image. Creating the thumbnail isn't the problem, rather than having to create another copy of the thumbnail, I'd like to just insert one of the ones that C5 creates when you upload an image. See the attachment along with this reply. It seems redundant to create the thumbnails again since these already exist on disk, for example at the path: /application/files/thumbnails/file_manager_detail/7814/1807/2722/bla.jpg
My assumption is that this may be a feature that doesn't actually exist, so I may just use Chrome's inspector to get the URLs of those thumbnails so I don't have to create them manually for all my images. Thanks for the reply though!
My assumption is that this may be a feature that doesn't actually exist, so I may just use Chrome's inspector to get the URLs of those thumbnails so I don't have to create them manually for all my images. Thanks for the reply though!
You have a few options if you want to display a smaller version of an image in the content block.
1. After inserting the image in the content block, click the image to enable the image "Edit" mode. When the image is in "Edit" mode, you can grab the lower right edge to drag resize the image. This does not change the actual size of the image, just the size it displays at.
2. There is also an image editor in the File Manager:
First, you need to make a copy of the image you want to edit.
- in Dashboard > Files, in the File Manager, click on the image you want to edit
- after clicking, you will see a menu, select "Copy" to create a copy
Second, edit the copy of your image.
- click on the copied image (it will have the same name, but a different Added and Active date)
- after clicking, you will see a menu, select "Edit" to open the image in the image editor
- now you can resize and crop your image
- after editing, click "Save"