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

What is the Media Panel?

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...

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...

This chapter explains how media can be assigned to events, facts and marriages in person and family records using the media panel.

Parts of the Media Panel

The media panel has several parts...

Adding Media to Events, Facts, and Marriages

To add media to an event, fact or marriage field...

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.

Editing Media Items

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 Button

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.

Removing Media Items

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).

Sharing Media Items

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.