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The Media Library in CamBuildr

Where your images and files live: uploading, organizing them in folders, reusing them across landing pages and emails, and what happens when you delete one.

Written by Domonkos Horváth

The media library is your organization's shared store for images and files. Everything you upload — in the media library itself, in the landing page or email editor, or through the AI assistant — lands in the same place, so an image only has to be uploaded once and can then be reused on every landing page, in every email and in your theme.

Where to find it

Open Media library from the main menu. You need landing page admin or campaign email admin rights to see it — media is shared between pages and emails, so either permission grants access.

If the entry is not in your menu at all, the media library has not been provisioned for your installation yet. Contact the CamBuildr team and we will set it up.

Adding files

Drag and drop files onto the library, or click to select them. Uploads run in the background, so you can keep working while larger files are processed.

  • Images: JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP and other common image formats.

  • Documents: PDF, Office files, CSV, TXT and ZIP, plus audio and video files.

  • Size: up to 20 MB per file.

Images are processed after upload so they can be delivered at the right size on your pages. A file that is still being processed is shown as such and becomes usable as soon as it is ready.

Folders, search and sorting

  • Folders: create folders and sub-folders and move files between them. A folder name cannot contain a slash, and a folder has to be empty before it can be deleted.

  • Search: searching always spans the whole library, not just the folder you have open, so you do not need to remember where a file was filed. Opening a folder ends the search.

  • Sorting: sort by name, upload date, file type, file size or media type, ascending or descending.

Files that CamBuildr adds for you — for example the assets of a page built by the AI assistant — are collected in their own folders, so they stay out of the structure you curate.

Where your media is used

The library is not a separate silo. The same files are offered everywhere CamBuildr asks you for an image or a file:

  • The landing page and email editors: the IMAGE block and every other file picker opens the editor's File Manager, which is this library. You can browse, search, upload, move and delete there, and create folders, without leaving the editor. Anything you upload while editing is added to the library automatically.

  • Image fields in the admin: wherever you set a picture — a page's preview image, for example — you can choose Choose from library instead of uploading the same file again.

  • Your theme: the favicon and the navigation bar image are taken from the library.

  • Cora, the AI assistant: if AI is enabled for your organization, Cora can search your library and use what it finds, add an image from a URL you give it, and generate new images — all of which end up in the library like any other file. See Using Cora, the AI assistant in CamBuildr.

Your library is private to your organization. It is never shared with other CamBuildr customers, and it is kept separate from files that supporters upload to you through a form.

Deleting files

Before a file is deleted, CamBuildr checks whether anything still uses it. If it does, you are shown exactly where — landing pages, forms, teasers, apps, surveys, campaign, triggered and opt-in mails, saved rows and theme settings — and asked whether to delete it anyway.

  • Deleting a file that is still in use leaves a broken image in those places. Replace or remove it there first if you can.

  • A deleted file stays recoverable for one year, so an accidental deletion is not final. Contact the CamBuildr team to have one restored.

  • In the editor's File Manager, deleting a file that is still in use is refused with a short note. Open the media library itself to see every place it is used and to delete it anyway.

Good practice

  • Upload once and reuse. Uploading the same picture again for every page fills the library with duplicates and makes a later change harder.

  • Give files recognisable names before uploading them — the file name is what you will search for later.

  • Use folders per campaign or per topic rather than one flat library.

  • Keep images as small as they can be while still looking good. Large images are the most common reason for a slow landing page.

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