Collections are based mediaContainers of the type “collection” and are a publicarea by design (like press areas).
However, collections are private (not published) by default and they are limited to the creator using mediaContainer’s settings.allowedViewers property. Both values can be overwritten during creation or updated at any time.
You can add mediaContainers to this collection. Use it for example to have
- multiple favorite folders
- to organize mediaContainers (collections can be used as a folder)
- create light boxes with pre-selected mediaContainers (and share them with users or send a public link via e-mail)
MediaContainers that are related to a collection can also have some additional information regarding the relation. Currently this can be a channelId (e.g. from Mediahubs) or a config object from our SmartCropper service.
The mediaContainer which is a collection always has an origin based on the clientId of the application. This way we can make sure that collections from different applications don’t get mixed up. This origin is set automatically.