Managing Photos

This article provides information on:

1. How to manually import photos from Lightbox
2. How to bulk edit photos in the Admin Extension
3. The available photo types from Lightbox

1. Manually importing photos from Lightbox

MediaVillage has a fully automated photo import, however, should there be a need to import photos manually, the system allows admins to do it.

What you'll need:

• The existing photo series NUP number(s) to pull from Lightbox (ex. NUP_123456)
• What photos you want to be uploaded and feedboxed in LBX
• Note: photos will be imported associated with a show

Importing photos:

1. Log in to the Mediavillage Airship https://airship.mediafly.com/mediavillage
2. Click on Admin 
3. Launch the Viewer: 
   
   
4. Click on Import Photos Tab and fill out the following info:
   
   

   ID	Field	Description
   A	Start Date / End Date	The window of time when photos were feedboxed in LBX
   B	NUP	NUP Series number

   
   
5. Click Call Lightbox button
6. Upon successful import, you'll receive the following success message:

2. Bulk editing photos in the Admin Extension

Bulk Edit is a powerful tool that allows authors to edit multiple photos at once. Photos can obtain new metadata, brand/associations, or publishing information (live start/end dates) from a bulk edit.

Bulk editing photos:

1. Launch the Admin Extension
2. Go to the Photos tab
3. Find the photos you want to edit. You can search by:
   
   • Keyword in the photo caption
   • NUP series number
   • Brand, Show, or Event associated to the photo
   • Status (published or unpublished)
   • Photo creation or update date
4. Click Apply Filters
5. Use the toggle on the right to switch into Bulk Edit mode:
   
   
6. Select images you want to edit by checking boxes left to the thumbnail
7. Click Bulk Edit 
8. Provide new values for photos. If there is a value you do not want to change for the photos in bulk, you can select to Exclude it (clicking Exclude will leave the values for each individual photo as they originally were). Once done click Save Changes

3. Photo Types

These are MV photo type definitions. Photo types will come as a part of metadata from Lightbox. If you need to update the type, keep in mind that the press is looking for specific types of art so keeping the type convention will assist them in quickly finding what they need.