• Introduction
• What is Live Blog?
• Using Live Blog
• The Live Blog interface
• Creating and publishing a live blog
• Creating content and using sources
• Using the timeline
• Configuring your live blog
• Users and collaborators
• Managing feeds
• Media archive
• Appendix
• Getting help
• About this manual

Media archive

The media archive, accessed by clicking on the Media Archive button, is a repository into which you can upload media files – images, audio and video. Within the media archive you can search for particular files, filter on a variety of criteria, and edit the metadata of uploaded files. As Superdesk develops, the files contained in the media archive will be accessible from all sections of the software. For now, the functionality is limited to the placing of images from the media archive into posts created in the Edit tab of Live Blog.

To upload one or more images from your computer, click on the Add Media button. This will bring up the Add Media dialog. Click the Browse button to upload items.

Use your web browser's file upload dialog to navigate and select the file(s) you wish to upload. In most browsers and operating systems you can use a combination of the Control and Shift keys together with mouse clicks or arrow keys to select and upload multiple files from a folder.

During the upload process, you will have an opportunity to add metadata – a title, description and caption – to accompany each file.

You can adjust this metadata on any file in the media archive via a drop-down menu.

When you have built up a large collection of items in the media archive, you will find the various search and display controls useful. These include the ability to filter by file type, date and language, and to alter how many files are displayed on each page, and whether they are shown in grid view or list view.