Create Media Portal

In the organization settings, navigate to Media Portal and click + Create Media Portal . A dialog window opens with numerous options (mandatory fields are marked with *):

• Name – is also the page title (relevant for search engines)
• Description – meta description for search engines
• color set – color can be selected via color picker or HEX code
• Album background color – likewise
• Home page layout – choice between image stream and album overview (one section each) and albums and images (two sections)
• Cover image layout – Full size or two-thirds (will be cropped for the top two-thirds of the page)
• URL – character string for subdomain (preferably short and concise, no umlauts or special characters)
• Title text – text below the logo
• Title image darkening – None, Light, Medium, Strong (darkening is recommended for light-colored images, search field is then more visible)
• Font – Catamaran, Open Sans or Futura
• Image size – Normal or Large (refers to the size of the preview images in the stream)
• Album heading – heading for the album overview section
• File heading – heading for the image stream section
• Footer text – text for the footer, e.g. © Sample company 2023
• Select cover image – select file from hub or upload file
• Select logo – likewise
• Select favicon – likewise (a favicon is a small icon for web browsers)
• Select header logo – likewise (appears to the left of the search bar when the search is active)
• File sorting – Name, Recording date, Upload date (in ascending or descending order), user-defined (manual sorting under Media Portal > Albums)
• Album sorting – Name, Creation date (in ascending or descending order), user-defined (manual sorting under Media Portal > Albums)
• Secure publishing – if activated, only media that have been explicitly marked for public playback are transferred. For details see here
• Activated – button switched on = Media Portal can be accessed under the specified URL

When you finally click on Save, the system first checks whether all mandatory fields have been filled in; if there are no errors, the Media Portal is created and a status entry is generated (provides an overview if there are several portals).