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Hi Chad,
Thank you for this. Very helpful (I should have known setting rank would be easy!).
We currently have the images arranged in the record as we would like them to appear on eMuseum, but they’re getting scrambled in the display when they’re transferred over. That could be a problem on our end…
Again, thanks for your help!
Kaitlyn
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Media Xrefs have ranking and a display order.
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Display Order is set by using the up and down arrows in the upper right corner (marked 1 in the attached image). As a side note, the primary display does not always have the display order of one; it has to do with how your TMS instance is configured.
The Rank field is optional. Before Display Order was added to MediaXrefs, institutions used it for this purpose. Uniqueness and ordering is not enforced, and new entries have a rank of 0. Per the documentation:
You can rank your linked Media records. For example, a Rank of "1" may mean "publication quality": a Rank of "2" may mean "detail shot." Or, you can set the rank to determine the order that each Media record appears in custom Data View displays and reports. This ranking system is institution-specific; each institution determines its own criteria for ranking media.
You set rank by single clicking the rank column in the row of the media grid you want to set the rank for. A cursor will not appear, but whatever value you type will replace the current value.
I hope this helps.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:43 AM Weathers, Kaitlyn <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Hi all,
I have what may be a very silly question – but I’ve had no luck in trying to figure this out on my own.
We are working to create a virtual exhibition on eMusuem of an important collection of tools we were bequeathed a few years ago. The curator would like to include scans of the collector’s documentation with the records as it will be helpful to researchers. He would like the images to appear in a certain order on eMuseum (particularly in the thumbnail slider below the main image). I cannot for the life of me determine how the images are sorted when the TMS record gets transferred to eMuseum. I am assuming that media rank might play a role in this, which brings me to another question. How do you assign the rank? We have never used this field before, and I am unable to locate how to edit it!
Thank you all for your help!
Best regards,
Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn Gardy Weathers
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