Media
A media item is a reusable piece of content with a type of its own — it has fields, a name, permissions and a place in listings, exactly like any other record.
Media types
| Type | Holds | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Image | A picture | Rendered through image styles |
| Document | A file | Datasheets, certificates, manuals |
| Video | A file or an embedded URL | Local or hosted |
| Audio | A sound file | |
| 3D model | A model file | Rotatable in the browser |
| Chart | A data series and a configuration | Live, not a screenshot |
| Map | Points, areas and a base layer | Fed by a listing |
Types are described, not built in — see Media types for adding one of your own.
Image styles
An image style is a named recipe — a size, a crop, a focus. A field renders through a style, not at whatever size the photographer supplied.
Back office → Media → Image styles.
Change the recipe, not the pictures
Because a style is a recipe, changing it re-renders everywhere it is used. This is the whole point: you never re-upload a catalogue because a card grid got wider.
Where images actually live
Everything sits in one file tree, per organization, with quotas and access rules. See Files.
Charts
A chart reads real data and renders it live. Line, bar, area, pie, scatter — configured in the back office, placed on a page like any other media item.
Because it is live, a chart on a public page shows what the system holds now. Consider what that means before publishing one: a chart is a listing that does not look like a listing, and the same "should a visitor see this?" question applies.
Maps
Points from your records — branches, installations, service partners — rendered on a base layer, with the same filtering a listing has.
3D models
A model file renders in the browser and can be rotated. For machine documentation it replaces a page of photographs taken from angles nobody needed.
Styles for the public site
The public channel has a set of prepared presentations for media — galleries, sliders, grids, comparisons. They are configured, not coded, and can be seen together on the styles page of a site.