Not yet updated for 0.2 -- these are 0.11 docs!

Using Crafty Scrapbook

Here's the reader's digest version:

Anyone, even anonymous users, can browse your annotated pictures.
Only the site admin can upload new content
Only the site admin can annotate pictures, or 'glom' them together
Once a photo (or movie) is uploaded into the database, it will show up in the "unassociated" section.
Only the site admin can see the "unassociated" section.
The site admin will tell the database what the picture is about. (Uncle ned, New Year's 1994, Deception Pass, etc.)
The site admin is defined in the database. If you run the 'insertTestData.sql' script, you start out with a site admin named 'Joe Admin', with a password of 'admin'. I suggest changing this after your instillation is setup.
A picture can (and most probably should) be "about" multiple things. For example, a family picture should be "about" Mom, but also dad, sis, and bro. It might also be about the location, and the event at which the picture was taken.
Once a content item has been "associated" with one or more categories, anyone can see it, even anonymous site visitors.
Image resizing is temporarily disabled as I continue migrating the code off the proprietary Disney setup.
Currently only movies in QuickTime format are supported. If there's interest, this can easily be expanded.

To UPLOAD new pictures:

Log in as the Admin. An 'upload' menu item will appear. You can upload individual pictures across the network in your browser. As a convenience, if you have a directory of pictures located on the Tomcat server (not on the web client!) you can grab the whole directory into the database at once.

To ANNOTATE newly-uploaded pictures:

Select the 'unassociated' menu item, which appeared as soon as you logged in as the admin. Your new pictures will appear. If it's the first time you're running the app, you'll see the test images in this section as well. There will be several columns. Each picture will have a link that will let you view it, and a separate on that will let you annotate it.

To VIEW newly-annotaed pictures:

Once a picture is annotated it will be viewable in whatever category you added it to, and anyone, even anonymous site users, will be able to see it.

To GLOM:

Sometimes you will make edits to a picture, such as crop, rotate, reduce red-eye, or whatever. In the ANNOTATE page, there is an option to glom one image into another. This way they will both be treated as a single entity and come up together as the result of any search.

Managing CATEGORIES:

You can customize the categories that are available. Add people, activities, events, etc. to the list so that they become available in the ANNOTATE screen.

If you have any questions please see the message forums first. If your question isn't answered there, shoot me an email, I'm ec9098 'at' go dot com.

Thanks for reading.