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Media Main Page Overview
The primary function of the Media main page is to provide you with access to all of your community’s media files. You will note that the center of the page contains a list of media files.
You can access your community’s Media main page by doing any of the following:
- Clicking Media on the Control Panel from any page in the community.
- Clicking View all media from your home page.
The Community Server Media main page looks like this:
Media Sorting Functionality
Community Server also allows you to manipulate how forums content displays on the Media main page. For example, you have several media sorting options:
- Name – Lists the media files in alphabetical order.
- Most Recent – Lists the media files according beginning with the one most recently loaded to the page to the oldest.
- Most Downloads – Lists the media files beginning with the one that has been downloaded most to the least.
- Most Popular – Lists the media files beginning with the one that has been most viewed.
- Most Comments – Lists the media files beginning with the one that has generated the most comments to the least.
Browse Media Functionality
The Browse Media section displays in the left sidebar.
The list of media groups in this section describes the media files that are available to community users for viewing or downloading.
Tags Functionality
You can also browse media files by tags. The Tags section contains the list of tags used by the media files. The more common the tag, or the tags used with the most media files, display with the largest font. For example, the 2006 Company Meeting and Corporate Office and CS Dev Summit tags are the most used in the Community Server media files, as shown in the tag cloud below.
When you click on an item in the tag cloud, Community Server opens a page with the list of all forum posts that use the tag. For example, if you click CSModules in the tag cloud, Community Server opens a page that lists all of the media files that use the CSModules tag.
The breadcrumbs just below the Control Panel remind you that you are looking at the media files that use the CSModules tag.
Media Files Functionality
You can open a media file by clicking on the media file name or icon.
The options you see here may be available to all users within the community depending upon the administrative privileges. The following table describes the functionalities:
| Functionality | Description |
| Stop emailing replies to me Email me when someone replies | Specifies whether you are notified by email from someone replies to the file. When you click the link, Community Server resets this setting to its opposite. |
| Download | Downloads the file. |
| Add file to favorites Remove gallery from favs | Adds the media file to your favorites list. After you add a file to your favorites list, the Remove gallery from favs also displays. You can click on it to remove the file from your favorites list. |