Ideas for Arc XP

The image resizer should allow arbitrary dimensions for custom delivery of an image

We have various places where we need images to display also outside of Arc - specifically in campaign pages and other places. I was thinking we could host these specific images in Arc and have them delivered by the CDN.

If there was a procedure we could follow to generate the correct version/resize of a public image within Arc, we could just copy and use those public urls directly to reference the (resized) images.

There is a configuration field to add a Path to Resizer value, which we have had configured for us, and that we now have available in the photo center ui.

However, we cannot add arbitrary dimensions to this path, so it is doesn't quite fulfill our use case.

The config value only allows for one domain- It would also be good to allow for per-site URLs for the resized photos.

I suggest the arbitraty dimensions should follow the patterns as outlined in ALC, but without the need to have access to the secret key to generate the signature

  • Arnstein Andreassen
  • Apr 20 2020
  • Future consideration
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  • Alasdair McKie commented
    May 12, 2020 16:45

    Totally agree that the 'Path to Resizer' field as it currently exists is really just a step in the right direction. There is so much more value that could come from it if it included the kind of variables discussed in this Idea.