Online Help

Summary

HomePage/Connection to the Website

Referenced users can have access to the website. Free access also available
The website functionalities are available to referenced users (saved selections, access to downloads and to preious orders)

Authenticated Access

In order to have access to the whole set of functionalities of the website, please enter your user's name and password. If you do not have an account, you can ask for one by using the register form available on the homepage. The webmasters will see to confirm your account in the shortest time possible.

Three ways of search are available:

  • Research by uncut text
  • Advanced Research
  • Research by tree diagram

Research by full text

This research corresponds to a full text research on all the fields of the descriptive charts. Research on one or several terms is also possible by selecting the AND, OR, EXCEPT operators. The default operator being AND.

Example:

lake and mountain = lake mountain

By starting this research, the whole set of documents corresponding to the terms "lake" and "mountain" appears.

It is also possible to start more complex researches with the logical operators and the use of brackets

Example:

mountain except (lake or fir tree) = mountain (lake or fir tree)

In starting this research, the wholeset of pictures made up of the term "lake" appears, as well as all the pictures with the term "mountain" without the term "fir tree"

In any case, you must not omit to enter a space between the operators and the words you are researching

The "*" sign is the truncation operator you can replace one or several types and which allows to get the set of possible terms including the same origin root. Thus the "moto*" request will display the pictures including the terms moto, motocross, motoneige, etc. Truncation can be used at the beginning , in the middle or at the end of a word. If used alone in the research window, it allows to display the set of photographies or media including in the image library.

Advanced Research

The advanced research allows to make more accurate research on certain fields available in the database.

The requests can be directed on one or several fields linked to the logical operators

Regarding the fields linked to lists of value, it is possible to refer to the help lists or to enter the criteria directly in the fields.

Remark: the research is dynamic: only the terms ending on a result are displayed to the users. The default operator is the logical operator "and".

Research by tree diagram

This research is run in the form of a dynamic arborescence. It is possible to scroll the arborescence down to read all the terms. A clic on one term of the tree diagram starts the research. One document may simultaneously belong to several levels or sublevels of the tree diagram (without physical doubles)

Display of results

Size of display

The system offers three display modes:

  • Mosaics
  • Lists
  • Details

A clic on the corresponding icons allows to go from one mode to another
No matter the display mode, the navigation pad remains available
The number of results corresponding to the research appears over the result window, so does the number of result pages. The navigation in the results pages can be done from page to page or by using the scroll line.

Access to the detail chart

One clic on the icon, set at the bottom of each dagger, allows you to have access to the detail chart.
The textual informations of the document are displayed : date, title, caption, copyright, keywords, etc.
The documents associated to this chart are also displayed. One clic on the associated picture displays the detail chart of the latter
The functionalities of download, order, creation of basket and editing are accessible from the detail chart

Manage your basket

Create a basket

In order to create or fill in a basket, clic on the icon displayed at the bottom of each document
You can fill in your basket from a reference mark or a document's detail chart

Save a basket

In order to register a new basket, it is enough to clic on the icon and enter the name of the basket

Find a saved basket again

clic on "Manage the basket"

Add a document to a basket

In order to add a document to an already existing basket, clic on the name of the basket . The system automatically registers the updates.

Cancel a document from a basket

To withdraw a document from a basket, clic on the icon, generally a cross

Cancel a basket

It is possible to you to destroy one or several of your baskets by cliccing on the "cancel" icon.

Download a document

In accordance with your rights, the downloading function is accessible from:

  • the mosaics (icon at the bottom of each reference mark)
  • the detail chart (icon at the bottom of the reference mark, on the navigation line)
  • the basket
  • the zoom (icon at the bottom of the zoom in the navigation line)

In any case and in accordance with your rights, the system will offer you various available sizes during the download (low, medium, high definition or original document)