Distinguish different TYPES of media on Specimen Results table (via differing icons)

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Now that we have more than one type of media and links associated with 
specimens (eg. fieldnotes, images, publication, project, external links to 
GenBank) it would be more useful to have icons representing the types to show 
up in the specimen results table instead of a generic 'media' that shows up 
now. Thus users can see immediately which specimens have images, fieldnotes, or 
GenBank links associated with it.

This was suggested by multiple people once they started seeing specimen detail 
pages with multiple media associated with it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by koomap...@gmail.com on 13 May 2011 at 12:29

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I agree. It would be very useful in Specimen Results list to distinguish images 
from audio from multi-page documents etc. One option would be to replace 
"media" with the media type in the specimen results list. Another cooler option 
- but more space intensive? - would be to include different icons. For example, 
for audio I'd like to see an embedded player that plays the audio recording. 
(Dusty, we are getting very close to having a fully functional html5 code for 
playing and downloading audio in different browsers, should be able to show you 
soon for testing and next step of integration with Arctos).

This is possibly something that Mike (MVZ undergrad programmer) can help with?

Original comment by carla...@gmail.com on 14 May 2011 at 4:28

• Added labels: Impact-Global, Priority-High, Type-Enhancement

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GenBank isn't Media, but rather an Other ID. While some folks might find that 
(or Media) interesting, I suspect most don't care about at least one of those 
things. I added the Media notification mostly as a way to let people know that 
Arctos contains more than ASCII characters describing dead rats. I think that 
may be accomplished, and I now question the utility of the notification at all. 

At the very least, I don't want to turn what was supposed to be an unobtrusive 
"you might find this record interesting" notification into an "EVERYTHING is 
interesting!! OMFG!! Field notes!!!!! Let me blast a chickadee call through 
your speakers without your permission!!!" thing. 

There are at least two ways to see Media in SpecimenResults - the default small 
green notification thing, and by customizing the form. Which are we talking 
about here?

Original comment by dust...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2012 at 3:13

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Original comment by dust...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2012 at 3:22

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Where media have a title, this would be more informative than an icon, at least 
in SpecimenDetail, and as applied to TAGs.

Original comment by gordon.jarrell on 30 May 2014 at 7:28