Lighttable

Purpose

The Lighttable is a view that shows the items using a tile display with a larger image preview, and the user can adjust the size of the preview.
The focus is not so much on the file information, but on the image.

Access the plugin via

Modules → Content plugins → Lighttable

Possible Usage of the plugin

Lighttable plugin can be used in:

  • DAM Navigation

  • Classification View

  • Product View

  • Channel Asset View

  • Channel Product View

  • Channel Product View

  • Asset View

  • Shopping Cart

  • Advanced Search

  • Formbased Search

Supported plugins

The Lighttable plugin supports the following plugins:

  • QR Code Reader Function plugin

  • AnnotationTool Function plugin

  • Aperture tool

  • JS Function Function plugin

  • Java Function Function plugin

  • 3D Viewer Function plugin

  • 360° Viewer Function plugin

  • AssetView Function plugin

  • Preparing Function plugin

  • ProductView Function plugin

  • Show-In Navigation Function plugin

  • Upload Function plugin

  • Direct Download Function plugin

  • Usage History tool

  • Image Editor tool

  • Upload Function plugin

  • Direct Download Function plugin

  • Usage History tool

  • Image Editor tool

Preconditions

Navigation Page plugin (for DAM, CM or PIM) should be configured for using the Lighttable plugin.

General configuration

The configuration of Lighttable includes the following parts:

Tab name Description Note

General

On this page the user can select the object type for viewing.

See more details "General"

Display and attributes

On this page the user can configure the display options and attributes which should be available in the Lighttable in the UI.

See more details "Display and attributes"

Icon assignment

On this page the user can assign an icon for the Lighttable plugin to visualize the function buttons appearing in the Frontend.

Content coming soon…​

Usages

On this page the user can see the relations of the Lighttable plugin to other plugins.

Content coming soon…​

Localizations

On this page the user can localize their own Lighttable plugin to see desired terms in the UI of Lighttable.

Content coming soon…​

History

On this page the user can overview all modifications made in the Lighttable and have an initial state available as a file to understand who, when and what changed within the configuration.

Content coming soon…​

Roles and Access

On this page the user can restrict the access to the plugin for certain roles.

Content coming soon…​

Lighttable CC configuration
Figure 1. The configuration structure of the Lighttable plugin
Management of the plugin instances is done in the same way throughout the whole Configuration Client. The details on this common concept can be found here.

Appearance in the frontend

All details of the Lighttable plugin in the frontend can be found here.

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