How to select what media is 'cover/thumbnail' for a collection

isaacmccarthy

Title. Trying to select a specific picture for a collection's cover (and trying to trouble shoot why some of the other collections are picking a specific piece of media as their cover when I don't want that)

jeffschneider

Are the media representations in the collection record? If so, you should have the option to select a media representation as primary.

isaacmccarthy

darrigan Thank you for your comment, but after doing this I have not made progress; all of my appropriate media is in the collection already. The collection is selecting a pictureless media as the cover/thumbnail, which renders it blank (despite there being other media with thumbnails). I have not been able to solve that problem, which is my goal.

jeffschneider
Where should this option be? I do not see it. any descriptions about where I could find this option would be helpful.

darrigan

Go to the editing of the wanted media representation, go to RELATIONSHIPS page. In the "Related collections", find the collection you want to add the media to, and save.
(After that, you may need to flush cache files to see the update.)

If you don't have the "Related collections" displayed in the RELATIONSHIPS page of a Representation, you can add it through the MANAGE > ADMINISTRATION > USER INTERFACES > edit the "Object representation editor", go to "Relationships" part, then move the "Object representation Related collection" from the left to the right column. Save. Go back to the beginning of this message.

jeffschneider

Is this in Providence or Pawtucket? If Pawtucket, make sure the media representations are set to accessible to public.
On each media representation is an option to set the primary.

darrigan

Also, in Pawtucket, you have 2 ways to display Collections:

"Browsing" menu > Collections
"Collections" menu

In order to display linked image in the "Collections" menu, check the file /themes/<your_theme>/conf/collections.conf
It should have somewhere:
description_template = <table><tr><td>^ca_object_representations.media.icon</td><td>^ca_collections.description<br />(^ca_objects._count objets)</td></tr></table>
or equivalent. You can change the size of image by changing "icon" by another preset size (such as "thumbnail", "preview170", "mediumlarge", "medium", "widepreview", "widethumbnail", "tiny", "small", "preview")

But probably it's just "accessible to public" missing for your images, as said @jeffschneider.