The Media Panel
(for events, facts, and marriages)
What is the Media Panel?
Media Locations in the Family File
Parts of the Media Panel
Adding Media to Events, Facts, and Marriages
Visual Clues for Fields with Media
Editing Media Items
Removing Media Items from Events, Facts, and Marriages
The Tools Button
Removing Media Items
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Media Window
Media Sidebar
Media Settings
The media panel is a view that appears in the Edit Person and Edit Family panels
and allows media assigned (or linked) to events, facts, and marriages to be viewed and managed.

When a field is selected, thumbnails for media assigned to the selected field appears in the media panel.
The media panel appears in the following locations...
- Edit Person > Events
- Edit Person > Facts
- Edit Family > Marriage
- Edit Family > Events.
Media Locations in the Family File
A brief overview of where media can be assigned in Reunion.
In Reunion, media can be linked (or assigned) to different locations within your family file...
- person records (general media)
- person events
- person facts
- family records (general media)
- family marriage events
- family events
- source records.
This chapter explains how media can be assigned to events, facts and marriages in person and family records using the media panel.
The media panel has several parts...
- Title bar -
Shows the name of the selected field and the number of media items (if any) that are assigned to the selected field.
When the media panel is open, the title bar can be dragged to resize the media panel.
The title bar is always visible, even if the media panel is closed.
- Disclosure button -
Located on the left side of the title bar,
this button shows/hides the media panel.
If the disclosure button is pointing down the media panel is visible.
- Thumbnails View -
Scrollable view where the thumbnails for media items linked to the selected fields appear.
You can drag items in and out of this view and you can drag to change the order of the media items linked to the selected field.
- Add button -
Opens the select media file window.
- Remove button -
Removes the media item selected in the thumbnail view.
- Tools button -
A menu of actions that can be performed on the media items selected in the thumbnail view.
- Camera button -
If your Mac has a built-in camera or a USB-connected camera,
you can take a picture from within the media panel, and add it to the selected field.
- Description -
Editable description of the media item selected in the thumbnail view.
- Size slider -
Click and drag the round button in this slider to increase/decrease the size of the thumbnails in the thumbnail view.
- Share button -
Options for creating a PDF file, printing, copying, and emailing the media item selected in the thumbnail view.

Adding Media to Events, Facts, and Marriages
To add media to an event, fact or marriage field...
- Navigate to the desired person or family.
- Open one of the following panels...
- Edit Person > Events
- Edit Person > Facts
- Edit Family > Marriage
- Edit Family > Events.
- Select the field to which the media item will be added.
As soon as the field is selected the name of the selected field and the number of media items that have been assigned
to that field will be reported in the media panel title bar.
If the media panel is open, any thumbnails assigned to the selected field will be visible.
- Make sure the media panel is open.
The disclosure triangle in the media panel title bar must be pointing down.
If the disclosure triangle is not pointing down, click on it to show the media panel.
- Media items can be added to the media panel using several different methods...
- Click the Add button, locate and select the media item from the file list, and click Choose.
- Click the Camera button and follow the steps for taking a picture with your Mac.
- Drag a media item from the Media Sidebar or the Media Window into the thumbnails view of the media panel.
- Drag a media item from your Mac’s Finder into the thumbnails view of the media panel.
Once the media item has been added to the media panel a thumbnail
for the added media item will appear in the thumbnails view.
Visual Clues for Fields with Media
On the family view, events and facts with media linked are indicated with an icon to the right of the field name.
Additionally, marriage, family event and general family media linked are indicated with a media icon in the marriage button.
In the Edit Person and Edit Family windows,
events, facts, and marriages with media are indicated in the field list with a media icon
to the right of the field name.
Select the field to see all of the linked media in the media panel below.
To change the description of a media item in the media panel,
click on the thumbnail for the media item in the thumbnails view
and then click the description name below the thumbnails view.
Once the description is in editing mode it can be renamed.
To edit the comments for a media item or to crop an image,
double-click the thumbnail for the media item in the thumbnails view.
The Media Window will open for the double-clicked media item.
Other actions can be performed on a media item by using the Tools button, described in the next section.
The tools menu can be opened by selected a thumbnail in the thumbnails view and then clicking the Tools button or
by control-clicking (or right-clicking) the thumbnail for the media item.
Items that appear in the tools menu are described here.
To remove (or unlink) a media item from a field, click on the thumbnail for the item to be removed and click the Remove button (the minus sign near the bottom-left of the thumbnails view).
To Print, Email, Copy, or Save a PDF File of a media item, select a thumbnail in the thumbnails view and click the Share button.
A menu of sharing options will be presented.