FotoWeb
This is the FotoWeb area. All FotoWeb guides - technical and user guides - are available here.
- Navigating and searching to find your assets
- Learn the basics of navigating archives, folder structures and any taxonomies in FotoWeb. To learn more about what you can do with your assets, refer to the Working with your assets guide.
- Working with your assets
- This guide helps you understand how to organize your assets using FotoWeb's main interface. It deals with organizing collections, sharing content with others, processing files in workflows and much more. The guide focuses on the use of the system and links to the configuration where appropriate.
- Selecting assets
- Choosing a cover image for an archive
- Copying or moving assets between archives or folders
- Cropping and downloading pictures
- Deleting assets
- Downloading assets from FotoWeb
- Downloading a rendition of a certain page in a document
- Duplicating assets
- How asset markers work
- Keyboard shortcuts in FotoWeb
- Pinning assets
- Printing images
- Processing assets using Actions
- Quickly downloading an image preview using Quick Renditions
- Rating assets
- Reference to all features available on the action bar
- Renaming assets
- Rotating pictures
- Setting asset status
- Shopping Cart - Approving or rejecting orders
- Shopping Cart - Placing orders
- Sorting archive content in FotoWeb
- Editing asset metadata
- Adding metadata to your files is paramount to keeping your asset collections in order. This guide explains how to add metadata to assets in the main FotoWeb interface and how you can configure taxonomies to improve archive navigation and facilitate metadata entry for users.
- Uploading files to FotoWeb
- How to configure file upload to FotoWeb and how to use the different upload methods.
- Enabling users to upload files
- Uploading files from a browser
- Uploading files with FotoWeb Desktop
- Defining metadata requirements for uploaded assets
- Preserving metadata on upload
- Problem: Upload information is not added when assets are uploaded
- Uploading files from the Selection widget
- Uploading files that have XMP sidecar files
- Which metadata fields does FotoWare write information to when a user uploads files?
- Albums - Creating and sharing collections
- Albums let you create collections of assets that are independent of the archives they were added from. These collections can be shared with FotoWeb users and groups, as well as external people you need to share files with from time to time. This guide deals with all aspects of using and managing albums in FotoWeb.
- Placing assets in a CMS
- The CMS Export module in FotoWeb offers the possibility to export any picture or graphics file to a CMS. Learn about the use of the CMS export in this guide.
- Using the FotoWare Plugins
- Learn about the plugins that let you use Fotoware in your favorite apps!
- User installation of the FotoWare plugins
- Placing assets in Office documents and presentations
- Enabling the FotoWare plugins for Adobe Creative Cloud on your computer
- Placing assets in InDesign layouts
- Checking out files for local editing
- Managing files that are checked out
- Uploading files with the FotoWare plugin
- Cropping images using the FotoWare plugins
- Editing images with the FotoWare plugin
- FotoWare plugins do not display asset previews
- Problem: FotoWare Plugin action buttons are not available in Firefox
- Working with the FotoWare Extension for Illustrator
- Working with the FotoWare Extension for Photoshop
- Working with the FotoWeb Pro interface
- Learn how to perform common tasks in the Pro interface in FotoWeb and how to use it to manage your asset collections.
- Installing FotoWeb
- This guide provides an overview of system requirements and routines for performing a fresh installation, or an upgrade, of a FotoWeb system. It deals only with the actual FotoWeb installation - for a fully functional system FotoWeb also relies on Index Manager, which is covered in a separate guide.
- Before you install FotoWeb
- FotoWeb system requirements
- Installing FotoWeb from scratch
- Updating FotoWeb to the latest version
- Apache web server support in FotoWeb has been discontinued
- FotoWeb Licensing
- FotoWeb services and system architecture
- How does FotoWare use the SMB protocol?
- How does the audio / video transcoder work?
- Planning an update from FotoWeb 7.0 to 8.0
- Re-running the FotoWeb Upgrade Wizard if an attempt to upgrade failed
- Scripting the FotoWeb Upgrade Wizard
- Starting and stopping the FotoWeb service
- Supported audio and video files for decoding
- Viewing system and licensing information
- What is FotoWeb?
- Configuring archives
- Learn all you need to know to start creating and managing your archives in this guide.
- What are archives?
- Creating an archive
- Adding search filters to an archive
- Assigning a crop profile to an archive
- Assigning a watermark to assets in an archive
- Choosing where files are stored when copied, moved or uploaded to the archive
- Cloning, editing or deleting archives
- Converting all pictures uploaded to an archive to JPEG
- Creating archive navigation using SmartFolders
- Creating a metadata view
- Enabling folder and taxonomy navigation in archives
- Enabling Google and other search engines to find your archives
- Enabling processing of files that are downloaded
- Enabling users to comment on assets in an archive
- FotoWeb refuses to start - Index Manager is not running
- Setting archive access and permissions
- Setting permissions on several archives
- Setting the order of archives in the user interface
- Configuring workflows
- When building a workflow system using FotoWeb or integrating FotoWeb into an existing workflow, Actions and Markers are the key components. Learn how to configure them in this guide!
- Managing users and groups
- How to create user accounts and groups in FotoWeb or import them from your directory service. This guide also covers permissions.
- Managing usage consent
- Learn how to manage user consent in Fotoware.
- Consent management overview
- Getting started with consent management
- Creating a consent form template
- Requesting consent for use
- Managing pending and signed consent forms
- Asset linking
- Creating consent categories
- Consent management general settings
- Consent status of an asset
- Consent management archive settings
- Linking assets to consent forms
- Managing consent
- Setting the consent status of an asset
- Signing a consent form by email
- Signing a consent form by QR code
- Signing a consent form on behalf of another
- Working with consent forms
- Configuring site behavior
- This guide deals with how you create, manage and configure sites and site-related properties.
- Adding a site to FotoWeb
- Removing a site from FotoWeb
- Configuring site host name and IP address
- Configuring the site database
- Controlling metadata handling
- Managing site cache settings
- Configuring email notifications
- Choosing a default site language
- Setting default thumbnail and preview quality for the site
- Configuring default search behavior
- Configuring site activity logging
- Enabling upload of assets to the site
- Controlling what happens to deleted files
- Choosing metadata fields to use for tooltips in FotoWeb Desktop
- Adding a custom footer to a site
- Adding a custom welcome message to a site
- Adding contact and legal information to a site
- Adding support for custom file types
- Branding the site
- Changing a site's default page title
- Changing the location of the MongoDB database files
- Choosing the location of audio and video proxy files
- Choosing which CMS Export features users have access to
- Configuring a permanent redirect from your domain name to the FotoWeb site
- Configuring notifications when assets change
- Controlling video transcoder performance
- Controlling which metadata is included in assets during download
- Controlling which metadata is included in assets when requesting quick renditions
- Creating custom links in the FotoWare user interface
- Customizing emails sent from FotoWeb
- Enabling persistent user login (Remember me) functionality
- Finding and/or changing the encryption secret
- FotoWeb session handling
- How an administrator can terminate a user's session
- How to hide detailed error messages from non-administrative users
- Configure a notification when an asset is published or revoked
- Removing FotoWare badges from the user interfaces
- Repairing the MongoDB database after an unclean shutdown
- Requiring users to accept terms and conditions when downloading assets
- Requiring users to accept terms and conditions when logging in
- Setting custom background images for use on the FotoWeb login screen
- Setting the MongoDB instance that FotoWeb uses
- Tracking site activity with Google Analytics
- Tracking site activity with PIWIK tracking
- Version Control
- This section explains how version control works in Fotoware On-Premises.
- Logs and Reporting
- This guide explains the types of system events that are logged and how to create and schedule system usage reports.
- Securing your server
- This guide deals with how to secure your FotoWeb system and protect your content.
- Troubleshooting FotoWeb
- Tips and tricks for troubleshooting FotoWeb issues.
- A video or audio file fails to transcode correctly
- Cannot access camera roll in FotoWeb for iPhone or iPad
- FotoWare custom verbs in HTTP requests
- How can I change the web server used by FotoWeb from Apache to IIS?
- How to tell which build version of FotoWeb runs on your server
- InDesign plugin does not remember the custom location for storing placed images
- Login to FotoWeb is slow when using Active Directory integration (Legacy)
- Metadata is not applied when uploading several files with the same name
- Sharing an album or using CMS export gives an error message
- System logging in FotoWare on-premises
- The metadata editor fails to load in FotoWeb Pro
- The upgrade wizard hangs endlessly at "Starting MongoDB"
- The upload web interface fails to load
- User cannot log in to FotoWeb
- Verifying FotoWeb account privileges
- When logging in with a FotoWeb Pro user license, all I see in Internet Explorer is a blank page
- Why is the transcoded video proxy file larger than the original?
- Deployment of FotoWeb Desktop plugins and extensions
- This guide deals with the practical aspects of deploying FotoWeb Desktop in an organization.
- What is FotoWeb Desktop?
- Installing FotoWeb Desktop
- Deployment of FotoWeb Desktop using Group Policy
- Choosing a server connection in FotoWeb Desktop
- Edit, Crop and Open buttons don't show in FotoWeb
- How FotoWeb detects whether FotoWeb Desktop is installed
- Manually enabling the FotoWeb Desktop plugin for Microsoft Office
- There is no "Insert from FotoWeb" button in Word or PowerPoint
- Troubleshooting the installation of the FotoWare Extension for Adobe InDesign
- Where are the configuration files for the Adobe Extensions stored?
- Where does FotoWeb Desktop store checked out files?
- Picture conferencing with FotoWeb Screens (Legacy)
- Learn how to use FotoWeb screens to run picture selection processes with internal and/or external users who participate and contribute files using tablets or smartphones.
- Legacy APIs
- This guide contains guides for legacy FotoWeb API's.