Depending on how and where you use your assets, you may want to specify display options or include additional metadata. To achieve that, it’s best to create a dedicated content type where you define the options and prepare the fields for metadata. You then create components
, one for the display width option and one for the alignment option.
Add guidelines so your content creators know how to use the settings.
This approach opens the door for scenarios such as:
Clickable images: Create a content type that includes an asset element for the image and a text element for the URL.
Include specific metadata to your files, such as license or source: Add the necessary text or number elements designated for the metadata to the content type.
Your content creators will use the dedicated content type for assets when they need to add an image with settings to their content. They’ll create a component, insert the image, and set how wide and with what alignment it should display.
If you add a content item with an image as a linked item in one language (for example, English), it will not appear in any other language (for example, Spanish) unless you translate it into that language. Even if the information you’re including in your image content item isn’t language-dependent (it’s just the creator’s name, for instance), you need to create a variant in every language to have it appear. Copying content from the original language can give you a head start.
Group the elements for easier accessWhen working with images, your content creators might first want to see the elements that they use most. Use content groups to assemble similar elements into clearly labeled groups.For example, you can put Image and Caption into a group named Content, Display width and Alignment into a Display options group, and Licenses and Attribution into a Metadata group.
From single-use to re-useIf you later find another use for the content in your component, you can always convert it to a content item
 by clicking .
This conversion cannot be undone. If done by accident, archive the new item and create your component again.
Jan Cerman, David Klement
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