Copy pasting Images in Online Content Publisher

Siddharth Vaghasia

Hi All,

Can someone please advise what is best way to upload images to Online Content publisher?

I found something strange happening from last few days. I had submitted 5 articles using online content publisher which has images. I always used to copy image from snipping tool and paste images directly into WYSWYG editor. This 5 articles were approved also.

In my next article, I used same way to copy paste image from snipping tool. This article got rejected with reason saying 'Images from external links'. When I checked all the images in this particular article. Image url is in base64 format string.

So i went to check approved previous artciles, image url src is

https://csharpcorner-mindcrackerinc.netdna-ssl.com/article/sharepoint-online-delete-custom-action-via-rest-api/Images/SharePoint Online - Delete Custom Action Via Rest API.png

I got suggestion from Nandeep to use insert image button of WSYWYG editor. When I am trying to upload image I am getting below exception.

This is happening for all articles.

I would like to know below

1. Is reason my article got rejected because image url is base64 string?

2. If so why all previous articles were approved and image src changed to csharpcorner.

3. What is best way to upload image, generally saving image and uploading to gallery is time consuming. There should be easy way to do this. If so please advise.

4. Uploading article via docx files.... how do we specify category, keywords....sorry for asking basic question but have never tried this option.

Thanks

Siddharth

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Pranav Mittal7y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Siddhartha,

1. Yes, the reason for the rejection is images not uploaded. You have received message also from one of our editors (Bhavya Gaur). Check - https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/notification/notification.aspx

2. Often, copy-pasted images go save in a temporary folder (the base 64 URL you have mentioned). This folder is temporary and can be vanished in the next server refresh or a few days later. In that case, the images are gone.

When a new author starts writing the articles, the editorial team helps him/her to get used to the process. In the case of copy-pasted images, we download each image and work on them. Then, we upload those again on the C# Corner Server so as to eliminate the chances of them being vanished.

Along with this, we send the message to the author also to know this issue and work on it at their end. This obviously increases the efficiency of the editorial team and fastens the approval process.

3. The best way of giving the images is the one you have mentioned (saving images and then uploading them). Yes, it is a little time-consuming for authors but you have the privilege to save the images while snipping and cropping them in the right size, i.e., with a max width of 650 px. On editors, it doubles up the workload (imagine an editor working on at least 15 articles daily with 6 images each) and there are chances of messing up of images, especially, keeping them in the right order. Thus, we ask the authors to do this on their own - optimization of images and uploading.

4. If you submit a doc file, the editorial team will itself select the category and keywords. Or, you can mention all that you want - Title, Description, Category, and keywords - in the doc file. We can pick things from there also.
5. Regarding the exception you receive while uploading the image - this is a bug with Google Chrome that is not allowing us to upload images. Our technical team is working on it to fix it asap. For time being, you can use any other browser, preferably Firefox.

I hope I have answered all your queries. If you still have some question, please do not hesitate to ask.
Siddharth Vaghasia7y ago
Thanks Pranav....this clarifies all my queries...I was not aware editorial team did this for me for first 5 articles... I would use insert image functionality to add images... thanks for all your help and appreciate you efforts to support community....
Nanddeep Nachan7y ago
Insert image sometimes gives this error. Please retry after sometime.
Siddharth Vaghasia7y ago
Hi SURAJ, I did same for first 5 articles and it was approved but now it is getting rejected...
Suraj Kumar7y ago
Most of time I genearally insert image using Snipping tool without saving it. Just take a snippet and use Ctrl + V to insert it. Hope it will work fast.