Uploading images in asset builder

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi All,
I have an asset builder that I want a non technical person to use on their iPhone.



The builder page is really easy to use and it creates news item, but I want to give the end user the ability to take a photo on their phone, then upload that photo via the asset builder page. The catch is that the photo will be large so I want to set up a trigger that will reduce the photo down to 200px wide.



I'll then use a paint layout to get the image to display within the news item.



I vaguely remember hearing about how to do this, ie the trigger would create variation of that image and make it a child of the original image. Then I would need the special keyword to make the image display via the paint layout.



Can anyone fill in the blanks on how I should set up this trigger and then which keyword I would use to make it display?



Thanks

Tim

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I found the keyword that I need to use when getting the image variety to display on the front end: %image_v_<variety_name>%
but still not sure show to configure the asset builder to let the non technical end user upload an image on the same screen where they enter the news body text


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Hi All,

I have an asset builder that I want a non technical person to use on their iPhone.



The builder page is really easy to use and it creates news item, but I want to give the end user the ability to take a photo on their phone, then upload that photo via the asset builder page. The catch is that the photo will be large so I want to set up a trigger that will reduce the photo down to 200px wide.



I'll then use a paint layout to get the image to display within the news item.



I vaguely remember hearing about how to do this, ie the trigger would create variation of that image and make it a child of the original image. Then I would need the special keyword to make the image display via the paint layout.



Can anyone fill in the blanks on how I should set up this trigger and then which keyword I would use to make it display?



Thanks

Tim

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Hi Tim


You would need to do this in three steps:

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  • An asset builder to add the news item
    [*]A link to an Image asset builder on the Created body of the News asset builder, you will need to get the second asset builder to create the image as a child of the news item dynamically using additional create location of the created news item asset id %created_assetid%
    [*]Then on the paintlayout you can have an asset list that displays the image/s that are children of the news item
    • 4

    I think you might have some trouble uploading from iPhone.

    5

    Yeah, you cannot upload things using Safari in iOS. You could however build a custom iOS app to do this, which would be pretty easy.