Tridion UI Editing Multimedia Components

Question

I had a problem in that multimedia components, i.e. image components, are edited through the Tridion interface. When I use a generic content component that has an image field, it works fine without any problems, since I get JSON objects below:

<!-- Start Component Presentation: { 'ComponentID' : 'tcm:15-5444', 'ComponentModified' : '2012-12-27T12:07:29', 'ComponentTemplateID' : 'tcm:15-5364-32', 'ComponentTemplateModified' : '2012-12-27T11:30:49' } --> <div><!-- Start Component Field: {'XPath' : 'tcm:Content/custom:Content/custom:image[1]'} --><img src="/Preview/_images/15-5366Hero%20Banner.jpg" alt="Banner SE"></div> 

However, when using the image schema component directly with the component template, the following tags are displayed:

 <!-- Start Component Presentation: { 'ComponentID' : 'tcm:15-5366', 'ComponentModified' : '2012-12-18T13:21:46', 'ComponentTemplateID' : 'tcm:15-5364-32', 'ComponentTemplateModified' : '2012-12-27T11:30:49' } --> <div><!-- Start Component Field: {'XPath' : 'tcm:Content/custom:Content/custom:Component.ID[1]'} --><img src="/_images/15-5366Hero%20Banner.jpg" alt="Banner SE"></div> 

I know that I may not need to use "custom: Component" since this does not exist in XML, but can you understand what I'm doing wrong? Has anyone had experience using the multimedia component directly on the page and have the ability to display the left hand image selection sidebar?

Regards, Billy

Answer 1

The markup you pasted is the inline editing of the Component fields. You cannot use it for anything else.

You can embed editing the Component image metadata fields in the Tridion user interface, but you cannot download a new version of the image. To do this, you need Open in the form view .

Answer 2

To get the Library Panel in the Experience Manager (XPM), on the Home tab, select Insert Content > Insert Content to access the left images.

The multimedia diagram of your images must have a component template associated with it (this is specified in the scheme of components associated with the template). Although you look good because you already have the image as a component presentation.

At least on my virtual machine, thumbnails are displayed automatically.