I’m trying to help someone else with a project figure out how to make a document accessible to project members. Does the News section of a collection project allow either a document or a photo of a document to be incorporated into a News item? If so, is there an explanation of how to do this somewhe…

Currently you have to host the document or photo elsewhere and provide a link to it. You can use HTML to embed a photo in journal posts (aka project news posts).

Thank you, @bouteloua ! Is there a place that explains how to embed a photo in a project news post?

It’s: <img src="HTTP://WWW.EXAMPLEURL.COM/FILENAME.JPG"> More about using HTML to embed images here: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images.asp At some point we will/should get a “what you see is what you get” editor like we have here on Discourse, which should make sharing images easier.

Thanks for posting this, @bouteloua ! I’m getting a little broken image icon when I use this html tag. Are there any other tricks to using it in an iNat journal? Thanks!

Figured out half the problem. I had been copying the link from someplace that was adding characters I couldn’t see to the tag. This solved my embedding problem. I am still having an issue with the broken icon in Chrome, but others using Chrome can see the image, so this is a setting issue on my end …

I have written a basic how-to for adding images to posts here - Adding photos to posts . You can also add tables and whatnot, but then you need to know your html. My illustrated key in a table for Southern African caterpillars with flattened spines is an example.

Thank you this is very helpful!

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bouteloua May 7, 2019, 12:54pm 7

Can you share the code you’re using or the journal post URL?

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