Equipment Images
ELTON allows you to display full-size images and thumbnails for each piece of equipment. These images can be linked from any publicly available URL, not just those stored within Salesforce.
Before adding images, you need to add different fields to the Equipment page layout or list views. The new fields are:
- Image URL (Equipment and Equipment Type): This is the text field that you enter the URL for locating the image file.
- Equipment Image (Equipment): This is the large image view field.
- Thumbnail Image (Equipment): This is the small image view field (excellent for List Views)
To add the fields:
- Go to Setup.
- On the Object Manager tab, search for the Equipment object.
- Go to the Page Layouts tab.
- Search for the Image URL field and drag it to the Equipment details. You can also include the Thumbnail Image field. Note: Typically, you'll only use one of the image fields (Equipment Image or Thumbnail Image) on a single page layout or list view.
- Click the Save button to finish.
- Open the desired equipment page.
- Paste the copied image URL address into the Image URL field. You can use any publicly available image.
- Save the record to finish.
If after adding an image you see an image holder and a No image available message, the image URL is either incorrect or not publicly available.
If the Image URL field is blank on an equipment record, ELTON will display the image from the linked Equipment Type (if the equipment type's Image URL field has a value). If both fields are blank, no image will be displayed. You can override the inherited image by adding a URL directly into the equipment record's Image URL field.
You can save the image URL on an equipment type and all its Equipment records will use that image. This is handy if you have multiple pieces of equipment that look alike. You would only need to add the image on their equipment type and all the equipment would display the same image. To this end, use the Equipment Type field as an item master and then put each serial number in as an Equipment record linked to the Equipment Type.
You can still override the image URL for an Equipment record by just adding a value to its Image URL field. If the Image URL field is blank on the Equipment record, ELTON will display the image from the Equipment Type record.
Image defaults are 150 X 150 pixels for the equipment image and 50 X 50 pixels for the thumbnail. Still, you can modify the size of the image and thumbnail:
- Go to Setup > Custom Code > Custom Settings.
- Find the ELTON Logic Control Settings label and click the Manage link.
- Click the Edit button.
- Use the Equipment Image Height and Equipment Image Width fields to determine the size of the Equipment image and the Thumbnail Image Height and Thumbnail Image Width for thumbnails. We recommend using a square size, which is the most suitable for the Salesforce interface.
- Click the Save button to finish.
