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Organize media

Organize media by tour

Keep each tour's media in its own library: assign files on the destination page, filter and bulk-assign from the media page, and auto-add everything your scenes already use.

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As soon as you have more than one tour, you want each tour's media in its own library. Here is how. First, the destination page. Every destination has a Destination media library section with two lists: Assigned media, which is what you placed there on purpose, and Auto-included from your scenes, which is media already wired into scenes at that place. To assign something here, I click Add media. One file? Its Assign button. Several? I tick their checkboxes and click Assign selected, and they all move at once. One rule: you need at least one of your own scenes at the destination before you can assign media to it. And Unassign takes a file back out. Now the bulk tools, over on the Media page. At the top I have tour filter chips: All media, a chip for each of my tours, and Not in any tour. That last chip is my favorite, because it instantly shows me the strays. To move several files at once, I tick their checkboxes, pick a tour from the dropdown, and click Add to tour. Done. And if you have been building tours for a while and nothing is organized yet, there is a one-click catch-up: the Auto-add scene media to tours button. It walks every scene you own and drops each panorama and poster that a scene already uses into that scene's tour library. Then I go back to the destination page and check the Assigned media list, because that is exactly what courses and tours anchored to this place will find. Tidy library, faster building.

Steps

  1. Every destination has its own media library. Open a destination from /creator/destinations and scroll to the Destination media library section: Assigned media is what you have placed there on purpose, and Auto-included from your scenes lists media already wired into scenes at that destination. Both count as this tour's media, so the This tour filter in the panorama pickers shows them together: a panorama a scene here already uses is in the tour whether or not you assigned it by hand.
  2. To assign from the destination page, click Add media. Assign one file with its Assign button, or tick the checkboxes on several and click Assign selected to move them in one go. Note: you need at least one of your own scenes at that destination before you can assign media there. Click Unassign to take a file back out.
  3. For bulk work, go to the Media page (/creator/media) and use the tour filter chips at the top: All media, one chip per tour, and Not in any tour. The Not in any tour chip is the fastest way to find strays.
  4. To add several files to a tour at once, tick the checkbox on each file, pick the tour from the tour dropdown, and click Add to tour.
  5. To catch up a whole account in one click, use the Auto-add scene media to tours button. It walks every scene you own and puts each panorama and poster already used in a scene into that scene's tour library.
  6. Uploading from inside a destination assigns the file to that tour for you. There is one exception, and it is the first upload to a brand new tour: a tour has to have at least one scene before media can be assigned to it, because adding a scene is how the app knows the tour is yours to manage. The page tells you when that happens, and creating a scene from the file settles it, since a file a scene uses counts as that tour's media anyway.
  7. After uploading 360 files there, the page offers to create a scene from each one. Take it and you skip the New scene form entirely. It only offers this for 360 photos and 360 videos, because those are the only files a scene can be built from.
  8. Deleting a file that something still uses is refused on purpose, so a tour cannot break quietly. The message names what is holding it, and for a scene it says whether the file is that scene's panorama, its 2D poster, or its ambient sound. If nothing links to that scene you get a button that deletes the scene and then finishes deleting the file in one go. If the scene is connected to others you get the list of connections to remove first, by name, with a link to the Connections page, because deleting a connected scene would leave arrows pointing at nothing.
  9. Long lists stay out of your way. The Assigned and Auto-included lists on the destination page start collapsed behind a Show button with the count on it, and every media grid in the app pages through its files rather than loading hundreds of thumbnails at once. On the media page, Select all visible ticks the files on the page you are looking at.
  10. Re-check the destination page afterwards: the Assigned media list is what courses and tours anchored to that destination will find in one place.