Image rendition
- Image rendition helps to display the image with a different height and width of the same image on different pages in a publishing site.
- When you create an image rendition, you specify the width and/or height for all the images, which uses the image rendition.
- Image renditions are available for all the images upload into Sharepoint libraries.
Prerequisites for image renditions
Blob cache
Now, let’s go and see how to enable cache settings for a Web Application
Open IIS Manager.
Navigate to IIS Web site -> Click Explore
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Open Web.config file.
Find the line given beelow.
- <BlobCache location="C:\BlobCache\14" path="\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|jfif|bmp|dib|tif|tiff|themedbmp|themedcss|themedgif|themedjpg|themedpng|ico|png|wdp|hdp|css|js|asf|avi|flv|m4v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|rm|rmvb|wma|wmv|ogg|ogv|oga|webm|xap)$" maxSize="10" enabled="false" />
Set Enable = “True”
- <BlobCache location="C:\BlobCache\14" path="\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|jfif|bmp|dib|tif|tiff|themedbmp|themedcss|themedgif|themedjpg|themedpng|ico|png|wdp|hdp|css|js|asf|avi|flv|m4v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|rm|rmvb|wma|wmv|ogg|ogv|oga|webm|xap)$" maxSize="10" enabled="true" />
Now, the cache settings is successfully enabled under the Web Application.
Publishing Site Collection/ publishing feature enabled site
First step is to create a publishing Site Collection.
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After successful creation of publishing Site Collection, enable Sharepoint publishing features under Site Collection features and manage Site Collection feature.
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Asset library
Asset library is useful to stor riche media assets. For example; these are images, videos and audio files
On site settings -> Click Add an app -> Pick Asset library template app.
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Click Create.
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Next step is to let’s go and create image rendition.
Open site settings -> Under look and feel -> click Image rendition
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Click New.
Provide the width and height of image rendition.
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Click Save.
Thus, the Image rendition has been created successfully.
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“logo” has been successfully created.
Edit Image rendition
Click Edit icon.
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Change the given width and height of the created rendition and click Save.
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Now, the image rendition has been edited successfully.
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Let’s go and upload a sample image into asset library and pick the rendition.
After successful upload of an image -> click Edit renditions.
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Thus, rendition has been created successfully to upload an image automatically
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You can also crop the image, using click to change the option given below.
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Crop it and click Save.
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In the ribbon tab also, you can edit rendition option while selecting the image.
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Next step is how to use image rendition in SharePoint page
Click Site action gear icon -> Add page.
On the page content, click on the top ribbon to insert picture from the options given below.
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Click Insert.
On the Image tab -> Pick Rendition.
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Click Save -> Publish.
As of now, you are able to use the same image with different height and width on different pages, using this feature.
How to use image rendition on image tag
Code
<img src=” /sites/imr/PublishingImages/17457619_1377913145602400_6065847167570624938_n.jpg?RenditionID=5” />
Happy learning.