Image management
Document imaging is a process to capture, store, scale, and reprint images. The Document and Media Library provides a centralized repository to store images used throughout the portal, and it assigns a unique URL to each image. Image is one of the default document types (Basic Document, Image, and Video) in the Document and Media Library (DL). This section will show the kernel of image management.
Models and services
The following diagram depicts an overview of image management conceptually. An image (special document) called DL Image has a set of folders (called DLFolder)
associated with them. Each folder may have many sub folders associated with them. Thus the folders and their sub folders form a hierarchy structure. Each folder (or sub folder) may have a set of file entries called DLFileEntry
. Each DL Image has a unique URL that is to be referred to. More interestingly, each DL Image can have a thumbnail and, optionally, two custom thumbnails. In a real world scenario...