Image varinats

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can any one explain me use of Image variants?

What will be the file format when you use set variant?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Priya,

Image Variants are used to define the structure and format of each of the variants for each image. Each variant is a

modified version derived from an original image; where the original image is never modified. Image Variants table is managed in the MDM Console.

Using Image variants you can define different versions of each image for different publishing purposes without modifying the original image.

A variant defines the structure of the image.Instead, each image lookup field in the repository has a Variants property that allows you to associate one or more variants with the image lookup field to identify which variants should be generated when an image is associated with that particular field.

When a new variant is created , you only define a template for how to generate it, but you do not KNOW WHERE to store the variant until you use the Variants property of an image lookup field to associate it with that image lookup field. When an image is imported

the original is loaded and stored in the MDM repository and serves as the starting point for any image processing;

A thumbnail is created to serve as a proxy for the original image (primarily for use in the MDM Client). If you crop/rotate an image, MDM stores the crop/rotate settings for the image and uses them to immediately generate a new thumbnail to replace the old one. For each variant, all the images associated with that variant will be generated according to the specifications of the variant and the crop/rotate settings stored for that image. MDM tracks the changes to the variant definitions, the variant associations, each image, and the crop/rotate settings for each image, and thus know when the variants need to be regenerated..

You can set output format for Image Variants

Web optimized

BMP

PNG

JPEG

TIFF

GIF

EPS

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Regards,

Vinay Yadav

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Vinay,

I am trying to extract image variants through MDM Java API. Currently, we have several variants per image.

I could not find the information on how to extract all variants for each image,

Could you share your knowledge on this?

Thanks

Erol Akarsu

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