Brand Toolbox houses a powerful image access and restrictions tool.
You can restrict access to images in two very different ways:
Brand Toolbox allows you to use either of the image access and restriction mechanisms to suit your purpose. Combined together, the mechanisms create a powerful image access and restrictions tool.
The options are:
Watermarked images
Non-watermarked images
Note that these are broad settings across all images and categories in the Photo library. For example, if a particular member group is set to view and download “Low resolution (watermarked) images” only, they will only be able to download low resolution (Small - watermarked) images across the entire Photo library. They will see the options for Small (non-watermarked), Medium, Large, Original and Custom size images (see exclamation marks below) but they are not allowed to download.
However, they can request high resolution images via an online Image Request Form attached to the image download buttons. The form is sent to the Image Administrator^^ as an email for approval. Once approved, the member will then be allowed to download the high resolution image for the approved images only.
^^ Find out how to “Configure Administrators to approve the image requests”.
Note: If a member group is not allowed to download high resolution images, then they will also NOT be able to create and export custom image sizes.
To set member image access options:
If none of the checkboxes are selected, members from that member group will only be able to download low resolution (630px) watermarked images. They would need to request non-watermarked images.
Note that the “Can Download Custom Size” toggle is a legacy option and will soon be removed from the solution. Users with access to high resolution images will also be able to create and export custom sizes.
Note also that the pre-configured image size options currently need to be input by the Brand Toolbox Development Team. To see the pre-configured list that ships with the software, view the Export custom image sizes & formats list.
“Public access” restrictions allow you to define which member groups are allowed to view the images within a specific image category.
When applied, all images within the specified category will be hidden from view. Note that if an image appears in several categories, and the member is allowed to view one of the two categories applied to the image, then the image will still be viewable under the permitted category.
By default, Brand Toolbox makes all category nodes available to all member groups. Unless you specifically change this setting, all image categories inherit these access privileges. Note that you only need to change these settings when you want to block individual member groups from viewing specific image categories.
You may decide to restrict access to a particular image category so it is viewable by ‘Employee’ member groups only. For example, you may have internal comms images and wish to exclude 3rd party or external suppliers (i.e. Non-employees) from viewing the images.
To restrict access to the ‘Employee’ member group only, follow the steps below:
For guidance on how to share images with external (general public) users, visit the ‘Creating permanent and shareable links’ section.
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