Images overview

By uploading images or linking to images from your Trumba® accounts, you can:

Include images in events and custom objects to make calendars, event details, directories, promotion and filter spuds, and calendar emails and feeds more interesting and informative.
Use your own custom buttons, icons, and map pushpins to brand and improve the appearance of calendar views.

This topic is a good place to start if you want a high-level overview of how the process for adding and publishing images works and/or you want to see a variety of examples for how images appear in published views.

Important This topic is primarily about using images in event templates ("event images"), calendar views, and custom objects. You can also use the HTML editor in Trumba to insert "inline images" within the text in event descriptions, calendar and event email messages, submission form instructions, custom fields, and custom object records. The HTML editor is (or can be, if it's enabled) available in all multi-line text fields where you and event editors add custom content. For more information, see HTML Editor.

If you're ready for more specific image-related instructions, see how to add images to events and how to store and manage an image collection.

Topic links

High-level look at the image process
Images in published views: A gallery of examples

High-level look at the image process

Getting images to appear in your published views involves a series of interrelated steps. Each step is listed and described briefly below with links to topics where you can learn more.

It all starts with image fields
Upload or link to image files you want to use
Customize spuds that support images
Manage your image collection

It all starts with image fields

To include images in published views, you have to have some way to associate each image with a specific event or object (directory) record. That's where image fields come in.

The default event template that is available in each Trumba account includes an Event image field. If you create a new template from scratch, you have to add the pre-defined Event image field yourself.
After you add images to the Event image field, you have the option of showing those images in certain published calendar views and promotion spuds.
Tip Only these calendar views and promotion spuds support images:
Calendar views: List, Detail List - Date, Detail List - Title, Classic Table, Tile, Photo Events, and News
Promotion spuds: Photo Upcoming, Upcoming Table, Upcoming Fader List, Upcoming Vertical Crawler, and Event Slider
If you have images in Event image fields, you can control whether or not the images appear in the calendar views that support them and the maximum size you want the images to be.
Images in the Event image field automatically appear in event detail views (unless you specifically assign different images to those event detail views, as described in the next bullet). You can control the size of event detail view images but you can't hide the images altogether.
If you want to use different images in calendar views and event detail views, you must also add a Detail image field to your event template.
Custom objects do not include image fields by default. You have to add an images field to an object during the object set-up process.

Tip The Event image and Detail image fields are predefined. This means it's easy to add them to any event template you create.

How, specifically, do I add image fields and images to events?

I'd like to know more about custom objects.

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Upload or link to image files

Image fields give you somewhere to put your images but where do the images come from that you add to the fields?

You build an image collection for an account by uploading or linking to the images you want to use. All image fields include special functionality. In the process of creating events and objects and customizing spud views, you can take advantage of this functionality to upload and link to new images and reuse existing ones.

The images you upload or link to are stored in Images tables. Each calendar in an account has its own table.

You display a calendar's image collection by making the calendar active, and then clicking the Images tab.

Images tab

Each calendar stores the images it owns in an Images table.

While calendars own images, you can share images across calendars. Once an image is in your image collection, you can use it in as many events, objects, and spud views as you want.

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How do I add custom button and icon images?

Customize spuds that support images

After you add image fields to event templates and use the fields to associate images with specific events, you have one remaining task: Customizing your calendar, event detail, and promotion spuds to display images at the size and with the formatting and styles you want.

Tip Remember that not all calendar and promotion spuds support images. For a list, see It all starts with image fields.

The specific ways in which you can customize each spud differ. For example, in all calendar views except Classic Table, it's always the event image that displays in the published calendar. With Classic Table, however, you have the option of displaying either the event image or detail image.

In all promotion spuds, you have the option of specifying the maximum size and position of the images. With the Photo Upcoming spud, however, you can also indicate whether you want to simply reduce an image to a specified size or crop it.

Can I see a detailed comparison of how to customize images in different spuds?

Manage your image collection

The Images table is where you manage your image collection. You can add, update, and delete images here. You can even open a third party image editor to make your images look better.

The images you see in the Images table reflect the calendars selected for viewing.

Row colors in the images table match the colors of each image's owning calendar.

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Images in published views: A gallery of examples

To see concrete examples of images in action, scroll through this visual gallery of calendar views, event detail views, promotion spuds, calendar emails, calendar feeds, and custom objects.