Normally when you “Add” an image into a Article within Tridion, the interface defaults to displaying only multimedia files when you are searching.
To get to the search window, it is always located at the bottom left of the screen as “Search view”.
If you wanted to search for specific sizes or a date of when the files were published it becomes tedious unless you utilise the search facility available.
Images within Tridion are usually identified at first by their file name alone, who they’re created by and the folder they are located in (Size 02, size 05, etc.).
When you perform a straight forward search when inside an Article component for an image, only images will be shown.
The results pane to the right of your search window will display the images found once search is complete. If you scroll across, you can see the general sizes of files based upon their folder location:
Narrow down images through default search
Note: Ignore this if you only look for images through the Article component search.
If you wanted to search outside of the Article component for an image (through “Search View” in the default Tridion interface), you have to narrow down the location you would like to search– otherwise your results will include other types of components.
You need to browse to the images folder. To do this click the browse button to the right of the “Search in” box, and the browse window will appear. Navigate to 02c -> Building blocks -> Content -> Images.
You can now either press OK, or if you wanted to search for a specific size of an image go into the images folder and select the folder size you want, and press OK.
Now anything you type in the search box will display images only based on the folder you’re in. To return to searching out components, click on the drop down list and select the “\”.
General Search Criteria
If you are just performing a general search, here are some things you can search for depending on your faculty:
- fcet, amd, sciences, law, business, health – matches mostly images within the specific shorthand faculty name
- news – matches all images used in news stories
- campus – matches some mixed search results of some campus images
- portrait – matches all portraits
Advanced search
You can also search for images by date modified and author of the image component. To do this, you need to click the advanced tab within the image pane, and select the ‘date modified’ checkbox, and select the date period you wish to search through.
You can also leave the name field blank (uncheck the name box) if you cannot remember the name of an image file you have created but know you created it or someone else created it in a certain period, and it will search for all images located within the time period.
