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Uploading Images

The Silent Auction Pro™ software allows uploading of images to promote and enhance an event, including photos of donation and auction items, group logos, sponsor and contact logos, and promotional banners. Silent Auction Pro users get the most out of these uploaded images by using the optional AuctionOnline™ and AuctionPromoter™ components.

A group administrator can upload a group logo at the time the group is created or by editing the group at a later time. Refer to Creating a Group and Editing a Group help topics for more information. Photos of donations are uploaded when entering or editing a donation. See Entering Donations.

Logos should be in GIF or JPEG format and no larger than 300 pixels square. The software will automatically reduce the size of an image, but upload time is faster if the image is smaller to begin with. Reducing the file size before uploading an image also minimizes adverse effects from improper scaling. Photos are not displayed in high-resolution.

For the best presentation, group logos and company logos should be square or close to square. Images that are significantly wider than they are high will negatively impact the formatting of pages on which they are presented. The software will issue a warning if the image is more than twice as wide as it is high. If you are still seeing the old image after replacing an old image with a new one, it is likely that your browser is pulling the old image from the browser cache rather than from the website. Hold the <Shift> key down and click the refresh/reload button (or hit F5) to flush the cache and make your browser load the content from the website. The refresh button is normally located just right of the browser website field toward the top of the browser. To upload a group logo
  1. Mouse over the Group Admin menu item and click Edit Group.
  2. Use the Browse... button in the form to locate your logo file on your computer.
  3. Click Submit to save the changes.
To upload a donation photo
  1. Mouse over the Donation menu item and click Enter Donation (or follow the procedure to edit a donation).
  2. Use the Browse... button in the form to locate the JPEG image file on your computer.
  3. Click Add Donation (or Update Donation) to save the changes.
To upload a contact's company logo
  1. Mouse over the Group menu item and click Add/Edit/Search Contacts.
  2. On the individual contact record, use the Browse... button in the form to locate the JPG image file on your computer.
  3. Click Add Contact (or Update Contact) to save the changes.
To upload a banner (available only with the AuctionPromoter™ component)
  1. Mouse over the Group Admin menu item and click Edit Event.
  2. Click the Browse... button in the form next to the Banner field to locate a JPEG or GIF image.
  3. Click Update to upload your banner.
  4. Banners must be 820 pixels wide by 100 pixels high. Flash images are not supported, but you can upload animated GIF banners. Please feel free to contact us to have a custom banner designed for your group.