Multimedia Manager is a useful tool for organizing your audio and video multimedia files for a CommCare application. It allows you to upload, preview, and replace your audio and image files, verify that no files are missing, and enables one-click download of all your media files, with the correct file names. When preparing your media files, be sure to follow the guidelines on the CommCare help site for audio and image file types and sizes.
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STEP 1: Adding a multimedia reference
3. If you click on any of these buttons, you will see a file-path automatically generated. Here you can see what the Media section looks like with an image file-path added:
4. At this point you have the option of uploading an image direction into the form builder. Alternatively, you can just leave this reference and add the media through the Multimedia Manager. Note that if you add a reference but do not add a media file, your application will show the file-path instead of any image, so it is important to upload files for each reference you create. Don't worry, this is why the Multimedia Manager is there. 5. You can remove the reference by clicking on the red X. 6. You can also manually change the file-path by clicking on the Advanced: Show Path button. 7. Save the Form when you've finished your changes.
Note: You can also add multimedia (image, audio) in the module menu and the form menu using the same instructions found above for adding multimedia to a form. |
Each language of display text gets its own set of file-paths in case you want separate files, so this can be useful when you want to use different images for each language. However, by default the automatically generated file-paths are the same for all languages; you'll have to manually adjust them if you want support for more than one language. The file path automatically uses the Question ID, so here is what it looks like for an image for the question labeled hemoglobin_low_counsel:
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