Add a transcription to a collection item image

ActionScreen viewWhere
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Objective: Display image and transcription together in Collection item image viewerImage viewer on collection object page Public site
(on ‘front end’)
Find image in Media Library using Search box. Choose ‘Edit’Media Library showing attached images for a collection itemMedia Library
(in admin)
Edit image title, if neededEdit image metadata(Usually the title is added when image is first uploaded to the Media Library, not now.)
Edit image metadataEdit image metadata and transcriptionAlternative Text sets the label that appears for this image in the row of thumbnails below the image viewer, e.g., ‘page 1’. Use all lower case. Do not leave blank.
Caption & Description do nothing and may be left blank.
Viewer Order determines the order of the images in the viewer. If zero or blank this image will not appear in viewer at all. Images with integers 1… will appear in order from smallest to largest. This is often the page number but any numbers will do.
Edit transcriptionAdd transcription to collection item imageType your text directly into the WordPress editor, and use the Editing tools to format the text.
Do not paste your text from Word!
If you have a transcription that already includes HTML markup: click the ‘Text’ tab in the top right corner of the editor, paste your text, then click the ‘Visual’ tab in the top right corner of the editor.
SaveSave your work with the red ‘Update’ or ‘Save’ button in the top right
Generate a new Manifest for this collection item.You can repeat these steps to add transcriptions for all of the images that are attached to this collection item page.Then, to make the transcriptions appear in the page’s image viewer, you must generate a new manifest for the collection item page. (See Generate a manifest.)
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