Contents

Getting Started with myfabrik

Importing Files From a Recent Event

Sharing Files by Invitation

Sharing Files with an Individual

Sharing Files with the Whole World

Linking Files to Online Groups

MySpace

eBay

Getting Started with myfabrik

This section shows how – in just a few steps – to put myfabrik to work quickly by importing files and sharing them with others.

 

 

Importing Files From a Recent Event

You've just returned from a weekend of whitewater river rafting. You've got some great pictures, and want to share them with others. The picture files are too big to email, and not everyone wants every picture. With myfabrik, it's easy to share your pictures with individuals and groups, and let people view and download the pictures they want. Anyone with a user account and a web browser can import files.

To import pictures:

  1. Copy or move your picture files from your camera to your computer.
  2. Open your browser and go to http://www.myfabrik.com. Click the Login button and provide the email address and password that you gave at registration time.
  3. Click on the Pictures category and then click the Organize button. Create a new folder for the rafting pictures by typing in a folder name, such as “Rafting,” in the New Folder box and then click the enter arrow to the right of the box.
  4. In the left-hand column of the browser window, click on the folder you just created to open it. Then click on the Import button.
  5. At the bottom of the Import pop-up window click on ^ next to Bulkload.
    Depending on your browser settings you may need to agree to the launching of the File Dropbox.



    NOTE: To use the File Dropbox your computer must have Java installed. To learn more about Java go to www.java.com – you can download the latest version by clicking on the Download Now button.
  6. From your computer’s file manager, drag and drop the pictures from your rafting trip, either as a file group or as a folder, from your file manager to the File Dropbox window. Note that the maximum file size is 2 GB.
  7. Click on the IMPORT button to copy the files from your computer to the Rafting folder in myfabrik.
  8. After the import operation has finished, close the File Dropbox by clicking on the X icon in the upper corner.
  9. Click Refresh to display the thumbnails of the pictures you just imported.
    NOTE: When pictures are imported, thumbnails are automatically created for each file. It may take several minutes to generate the thumbnails for every imported picture. As the thumbnails are being generated the default camera icon thumbnails will be replaced by the picture thumbnail. Thumbnail generation progress can be monitored through a message in the screen tip as you mouse over a thumbnail. Clicking Refresh will replace the camera icons with newly generated thumbnails.

Sharing Files by Invitation

Once your files are imported into myfabrik, sharing them is easy. You can invite individuals and groups to look at and download your content, and you can make files publicly available. It's easy to invite an individual to share your content – you need only select the files and enter their email address.

Sharing Files with an Individual

  1. Select one or more files – you can select more files by using the Shift, Control (PC), or Command (Apple) key when clicking the mouse button.
  2. Once files are selected, click on the SHARE button at the top of the browser screen.



  3. In the text box next to PERSON: type in an email address.
  4. Click on the arrow to the right of this box, and click OK to confirm that you want to share the selected file(s). An email containing a link to the shared files will be sent to the email address, similar to the picture below.



    NOTE: The email message containing the link to the shared files can be forwarded by the recipient to other email addresses. Any recipient of the link will be able to view and download the files as though they were the original recipients.

  5. When your recipient clicks on the emailed link, a browser will open and thumbnails of the files that you shared with them will be displayed in their browser – see below. By double clicking on a thumbnail, they can launch a picture slide show or play a video or music file depending on the types of files that you have shared with them.


Sharing Files with the Whole World

This is really easy – within each category, select the files you want to share with the world, then click on Publish. The Public Page Studio page will appear. Select an existing set that you have already created or create a new set. You can click on Done to go back to the myfabrik application page or click on Done and Edit to open up your Public Page to view and edit.

NOTE: You can find the link information by clicking on Set Preferences, then selecting the User Preferences tab (automatically selected) – your personal link is listed on the line starting with Your Public URL/Link.

If you wish to remove access to files in the Public Page, select the ones you would like to remove while in the Public Page and press delete on your keyboard. This removes the files from the Public Page area but does not delete the actual file from your myfabrik account.

NOTE: If you delete files from your myfabrik account that were being shared through the Public Page feature, they will no longer be accessible through the Public Page.

Linking Files to Online Groups

You can link up to five pictures at a time to popular online communities such as MySpace and eBay. The embed button automatically generates a link (URL) that users can click on to view the pictures in a dedicated browser window and HTML code (IMG) that can be used to embed the selected pictures into a web page.

MySpace

  1. Select up to five pictures by holding down the Control key (Command key for Mac users) and then mouse clicking the desired pictures.
  2. Click on the embed icon.
  3. Select the IMG tab. In the pop-up window, select the entire link – it starts with “<img” – and copy (Control-C or Command-C) to your computer's clipboard.
  4. Log in to your MySpace account and click on Edit Profile.
  5. Select the area where you wish the photo to appear – for example, About Me – and paste (Control-V or Command-V) the HTML IMG code into the box.
  6. Click on Save All Changes, and you’re all set.

eBay

  1. Log into eBay and create a new listing to sell.
  2. Go through the listing steps until you reach Item Description. Copy and paste the HTML IMG code into the description.
  3. You can add additional images to your eBay listing using URL links. Continue with your listing until you reach the section “Add Pictures,” click on the tab Your Web Hosting and paste the URL link into the Picture 1 Web Address.

NOTE: You may need to use a photo editor to adjust the picture to the size you need.

For more information and support on embedding content or linking files to other sites, please refer to the support or help section of the destination web site.