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Hi CMS folks -

It was my intention, as a teacher, to use CMS Made Simple in my classroom to demonstrate the whole "CMS" concept to my students.

After installing the software - which went incredibly smoothly - I tested the 'Add Content' functionality via my Mac accessing my UBuntu system where CMSMS was installed.

A page of content was created where I had some text and added an image (dragged / dropped / resized into place). That was an instant success. YEAA!

Creating content via an iPad was successful except that the image I pasted into place (from the iPad 'Photo Album' where it was copied) did not make it into the mix.

When reading the source for the page which WAS created, the image reference was resolved to this: Can anyone please suggest what I should be doing in order to allow an image to be added to the content created via an iPad?

Thanks much!

Images in content have to come from the server the system is on, <img src='uploads/images/image.jpg' /> you can't just drag/drop images into content edit box, in the editor toolbar you will see little button for this if you set it in the editors, tinyMCE or MicroTiny, admin...

Hi Dr.CSS, et al,

Thank you for your response. Although, I am not sure what was reported is exactly correct. The assertion, "Images in content have to come from the server the system is on", may not be accurate.

Please note I was able to create a page from a system (remote from the system on which CMSMS was running) by dropping an image into the 'create content' page (as viewed on my remote system).

The added-image was able to be re-sized and all went exactly as imagined and desired. However, the same was not true when I tried to perform the same activity on an iPad.

Thanks for any additional clarification which may be provided.

It is true in that you have to upload it to the server, if you have file management set in tinyMCE then add image using the insert/edit image button it will show a browse button where you can look on your computer/Mac/iPad for an image to use in page content or you can use a URL to the image on another server...

Could you explain this in more detail?...

"Please note I was able to create a page from a system (remote from the system on which CMSMS was running) by dropping an image into the 'create content' page (as viewed on my remote system)."

Hi Dr.CSS -

Well - what you say is, evidently, true as this image was saved into the webpage HTML itself as the binary contents of the image - and not as a reference to a file in a folder.

I'll see about coming up with a way to embed a URL to the image or come up with a way to get images from my iPad into a folder on the server somehow - and make references to that, instead.

Thank you very much for your informed and helpful response.