User guide for Portal visitors

As a Portal creator or curator you can share this page with your audience so they can use your Portals effectively to browse and share your content.

Overview

Portals are designed to be intuitive to use, but you can quickly learn how to use them in this guide:

Asset gallery

The asset gallery shows all content available on the Portal.

Detail view

If you click on an individual asset you enter the “Detail view” where you can see:

  1. Full view of the asset: complete with the preview controls to zoom in/out for details

  2. Asset metadata: Shows every available info on the asset

  3. Variants: Shows the different formats of the asset available for download

Asset variant types

Asset types may have different variants available for download on the Portal:

Audio asset

Document asset

Image asset

Video asset

"Small" *
"Medium" *
"Audio"

"Small" *
"Medium" *
"PDF"

"Small"
"Medium"
"Large"

"Small" *
"Medium" *
"Video"

*Small, medium and large variants are downloadable preview images that are generated independently of the asset type. For example, If you download the medium variant of an audio, document or video asset, the preview image of this asset lands on your computer and can therefore not be browsed or played.

 

Selection mode

If you hover over an asset thumbnail and click the check mark that appears in the upper right corner, a selection bar appears and you enter "selection mode":

The basket

The basket is your tool to create your own selection of assets to browse, share, and download. Besides providing an overview of the gathered assets you can also directly access the "detail view" of each individual asset here.

Basket assets are stored on your browser on your device, switching the browser or device will not transfer the basket. Also if you clear browser-data, the basket will be emptied as well.

You can fill your basket with assets from an asset gallery in the following ways:

The basket can contain up to a maximum number of 1000 assets.

The basket icon in the upper right corner of the Portal will indicate the number of assets in the basket. Clicking on this icon opens the "basket view" that features:

  1. The overview of all assets in your basket.

  2. The "Share" button that allows you to share the contents of your basket with a share page. (If it was enabled for the Portal)

  3. The "Download" button to download all assets inside your basket with one click.

  4. The "Clear all" button to empty the basket with one click.

  5. The sorting menu enables you to order the assets in the basket by "Date added", "Name", "File size", and "File extension". Also has options to set an ascending or descending order.

  6. The variant selection menu where you can set which variants of the assets you want to share or download.

A maximum of 1000 variants can be downloaded from the basket at the same time.

 

Sharing content

A maximum of 1000 variants can be shared with these methods at the same time.

Sharing content via a share page

You can create a share page for the content that interests you. Use one of the following options to open the "Create share page" dialog:

In the "Create share page" dialog, you can:

Sharing content directly from an asset gallery

You can easily share the content that interests you in a direct way:

Search and filtering

The search bar

Filter assets

Download options

Multi-download

Bulk Download

Working with Content Templates

A Content Template on a Portal allows you to create and download  your own content using the elements the Portal creator provided.

  1. The canvas is the main area of the editor where you can interact with pages and blocks of the Template.

  2. The settings panel contains the block-related settings that slide in here when you click on individual blocks on a page.

  3. The tool bar contains the following features: