Last week I looked at how to insert images into a record in the electronic lab notebook  eCAT.  This week I’ll look at two other ways of importing images into eCAT, from the dashboard and from the record page.

Importing images from the dashboard

To start, just click on the Import menu item and then on Image

You will be taken to the import page, which looks like this:

You can choose to import images from your local computer by uploading them to the server, or you can import from an attachment store that your administrator has defined for you.

Importing from your local computer

To import from a local file, click “Choose File” or “Browse” (the exact text depends on your browser) and then select the file you want to upload. eCAT supports a variety of image types. The standard common images types are all fully supported – JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF etc. We also support a range of specific scientific types such as TIFF, Zeiss LSM, Zeiss ZVI, Delatvision, Biorad (.pic) and Metamorph (.stk).

If you wish to remove a file you have selected for upload, then click the red cross beside the file name.

Importing from an attachment store

To import from an attachment store, click the “Import files from attachment stores” button. Then click in a text box that says “Click here to select an attachment”. The following screen will appear.

Select a file to import from the attachment store, and then click “Insert” to add it to list of files to import. You can import more than one file from attachment stores at once by clicking the [+] button to the right of the text box saying “Click here to select an attachment”.

When you have image files selected from either the local computer or an attachment store, click “Import” to import the files. Some image types support a preview and allow selection of the size of thumbnail images you will see in your imported records. If the image type you are importing works this way then you will see a screen similar to the following:

When you have finished selecting the image sizes, click “Save” to save your settings. You will be taken to the target record if you are importing more than one image, or to the record that you have imported if you have imported a single image.

Importing images as children of a record

When you are viewing a record, you can click the “Import” option in the Children section of the main menu on the left hand side.

This will import the image as a child record of the record currently being viewed.

Tags: dashboard, eCAT, electronic lab notebook, eln, image, import, record

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