Image Component

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Function

a!imageField( label, labelPosition, instructions, helpTooltip, images, showWhen, size, isThumbnail, style, align, accessibilityText, marginAbove, marginBelow )

Displays an image from document management or the web.

See also:

• Document Image.
• User Image.
• Web Image.

Parameters

The maximum display dimensions for each Size are listed below:

Usage considerations

Using the style parameter

• If style is set to "STANDARD", images are scaled down as necessary to fit the size limit, preserving their natural aspect ratio. Images will never be scaled up with this configuration, so they'll display at their natural size if they are smaller than the configured size.
• If style is set to "AVATAR", images are scaled down or up as necessary to fit the size limit, preserving their natural aspect ratio, and cropped in a circle.

Using the size parameter

• If size is set to "FIT", images display at either their natural width or the width of the container, whichever is smaller.
• Images look best with the ICON size if they are 40 x 40 pixels and have a transparent background. The images display at 20 x 20 pixels but an original size of 40 x 40 pixels is recommend if any users view the images on high-definition screens, like an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Examples

Click EXPRESSION to copy and paste an example into the Interface Definition to see it displayed.

Display a series of document images

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a!imageField(
  label: "Image Field Example",
  images: {
    a!documentImage(
      document: a!iconNewsEvent(icon: "HAMMER", color: "BLUE")
    ),
    a!documentImage(
      document: a!iconNewsEvent(icon: "GEARS", color: "GREY")
    ),
    a!documentImage(
      document: a!iconNewsEvent(icon: "BRIEFCASE", color: "GREEN")
    )
  }
)

Displays the following:

Display a series of user images with looping

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a!imageField(
  label: "Images",
  size: "MEDIUM",
  style: "AVATAR",
  images: a!forEach(
    /* 
    * Usernames of users in your environment. 
    * Please adjust usernames appropriately.
    */
    items: { "james.baker", "karen.anderson", "maria.lopez" },
    expression: a!userImage(
      user: fv!item
    )
  )
)

Displays the following:

Feature compatibility

Old versions

There are older versions of this interface component. You can identify older versions by looking at the name to see if there is a version suffix. If you are using an old version, be sure to refer to the corresponding documentation from the list below.

To learn more about how Appian handles this kind of versioning, see the Function and Component Versions page.

Related Patterns

The following patterns include usage of the Image Component.

• Call to Action Pattern (Formatting): Use the call to action pattern as a landing page when your users have a single action to take.

• Display Processes by Process Model with Status Icons (Grids, Images, Reports): Use an interface to display information about instances of a specific process model.

• Event Timelines (Timeline, Events): Use the event timeline pattern to display a dated list of events and actions in chronological order. This pattern uses a combination of cards, rich text, and user images to show an easy to navigate list of dated events.

• Leaderboard (Looping): Use the leaderboard pattern to show a selection of your data in an easy to read ranked display.

• Milestone Patterns (Looping): There are three options for milestone patterns which all display some form of a progress indicator to guide users through a series of steps.

• Save a User's Report Filters to a Data Store Entity (Grids, Smart Services, Filtering, Reports): Allow a user to save their preferred filter on a report and automatically load it when they revisit the report later.

• Track Adds and Deletes in Inline Editable Grid (Grids): In an inline editable grid, track the employees that are added for further processing in the next process steps.

• User List Pattern (Looping): The user list pattern retrieves all the users in a specified group and displays them in a single column.

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