Usage field added
Submitted by Steel Rat on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 8:50am.
I added a custom field for Gallery Items, called Usage. The field has two pre-set values: Personal Only, and Personal and Commercial. The Usage field is under the Custom Fields tab when editing your gallery item.
Those who have already uploaded images will need to go in and change the value to whichever is appropriate. If no value is selected, Personal and Commercial will be assumed.
If you've uploaded a lot of items I can change the Usage values in the database, just let me know what they should be.
I am confused with this..
If we state personal only, does that mean we are telling the community that we won't allow them to use it in production without permission from us first; whereas if we state Personal and Commercial, we are telling them they can use the map even to sell or use in a D20 product if they wish?
I haven't uploaded anything since activation but you may want a way to force this question when uploading or else people will just not fill it in and it could be inaccurate data. (if you think this is important enough)
Your assumption is correct.
I'm not going to attempt to force it because it's only really of importance to the copyright owner. If they are interested enough then they will make sure the flag is set, or at least put it prominently into the description. The field isn't an enforcement method anyway, just a way of easily signifying and making searching more consistent.
Besides, I would have to do some hacking of code to make the field mandatory and on the upload forms.
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I'm glad this field was added, because it's important information. I guess those without the field filled in should be considered "Personal Use Only".
Would it be possible to also organize or tag the maps as being Campaign/Region/Area/Battlemap scale? Or is this already possible somehow?
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Could certainly add new categories. But instead of duplicating albums under all the top-level albums adding custom fields to further classify would be good. Although this is easily achieved as well using keywords too.
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