Viewing Images and Image Variants 

Use

You can view an original image, its thumbnail, or any of its variants within a pop-up window using any of the image View commands.

With respect to the variants of an image, a particular variant can be in any of twelve possible states, based on the following three conditions:

●      It may be system or user generated.

●      It may or may not be needed.

●      It may be nonexistent, outdated, or done.

The states appear in square brackets ([]) next to the variant name in the cascading menu when you choose the View ® Variant command, as summarized in the table below.

The Original and Thumbnail variants always are always needed and done (that is, up-to-date).

To view the Original or a variant, an application on the local machine must be capable of opening that type of image file.

System States	User States
System; Done; Needed	User; Done; Needed
System; Done; Not Needed	User; Done; Not Needed
System; Outdated; Needed	User; Outdated; Needed
System; Outdated; Not Needed	User; Outdated; Not Needed
System; Nonexistent; Needed	User; Nonexistent; Needed
System; Nonexistent; Not Needed	User; Nonexistent; Not Needed

Procedure

To view a variant of an image in a pop-up window:

       1.      In the Record Detail tab, right-click on the image thumbnail and choose from the context menu, or choose Objects ® Image from the main menu and choose from the cascading menu, as follows:

○       View Original   (view the Original variant)

○       View Thumbnail   (view the Thumbnail variant)

○       View Variant   (view the selected variant)

       2.      If you choose View Variant, MDM displays a cascading menu of variants from which to choose, with the status of each variant appearing next to the variant name in square brackets ([]) and the choices for those variants that do not exist disabled in gray.

MDM opens a pop-up window to view the selected image variant.

       3.      When you are done, click the popup window’s close button.