Usage scenario 

Your company subscribes to image feeds from different sources. Some assets can be used freely under the subscription, while others are pay-per-use. You want to create a marker that appears in pictures that are pay-per-use, so that users of the system can potentially find similar material in other feeds.

Suggested solutions 

This can be accomplished using a marker that shows on pictures that have certain information in metadata fields. There are several approaches:

• If pictures from a certain wirefeed are always pay-per-use, you can create a marker that evaluates the content of the Credit or Source metadata field and shows if the content of that field has a specific value ("vendor").
• If feeds are processed and sorted by a Fotoware Color Factory server, you can set up a general metadata macro that is applied to files in the pay-per-use feed and adds a tag (like pay-per-use or similar) to a custom metadata field. Then the marker in FotoWeb can be configured to show when that field contains the relevant tag.

How to 

Create a new marker in the FotoWeb site configuration.

First, give the marker a name that clearly indicates its purpose. The content in the Description field will be shown as a tooltip when a user hovers over the marker in the web interface.

In the Condition section, choose the field that the marker should evaluate and select the condition that should be met. For example, if the field should contain payperuse, set the condition to Equals or Contains payperuse. Remember that when using Equals as the condition, the content of the field has to be precisely what's written in the field, and the field cannot contain any other information.

Next, choose the type of marker, select an icon and color, and a position on the thumbnails/previews.

Finally, select OK to store the marker.

Additional possibilities 

Should the user want to see additional information about the rights to use the picture, for example, it is possible to add a click action to the marker, which can do several things, based on your requirements:

• When a user clicks the marker, FotoWeb navigates the user to a preset corporate web page that displays information about licensing and usage rights.
• Alternatively, clicking the marker can open a metadata editor that displays the fields containing licensing information. These can be configured to be editable or read-only based on your requirements.