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Uploading thumbnails

You will learn how to create thumbnails from a preview image stored in your local machine.

This tutorial leads you through the process of creating new metadata entries. You will use the template system, add thumbnails, upload data, link to services and set access privileges to the metadata and data.

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Requirement: You need a large preview image of your data in the PNG, JPEG or GIF format. You can prepare this using your (GIS) processing software.

Open the metadata in Edit mode
Click the Thumbnails button at the top or bottom of the metadata form to open the Thumbnail Management window.

You have two options to generate the small and large thumbnail:

Using two different images for the large thumbnail and the small one;
Using the same graphic for both thumbnails

Option A:

Click Browse to locate the image for the small thumbnail;
Select Scale image if you need to rescale it: use the dropdown list of values in pixel to select the size of the graphic (180 px for both width and height is suggested);
Click the Add button;
Repeat steps 3 and 4 in the Large thumbnail section (suggested size is 500 x 800 px);
Deselect Create small;
Click the Add button;