Media

A Media (OBJE is the corresponding tag) is an entity wrapping any multimeda data you can think of. GenJ is aware about image files and will try to display the information in any of the views. When creating a media by clicking on you can specify a file by opening a file-chooser. The data of that file is included in your Gedcom-file (Base64 encoded). To keep the file small it is also possible not to choose a file at that point. Simply add a FILE property to the entity later that points to a file on disk. This is an external file that has to be shipped separately.

Medias are by default not linked to any other entity. After creation you can add a OBJE property (yes, OBJE is the tag for a media entity and the tag for the media property) to any entity and link it to a media by entering its id and pressing link.

A media according to Gedcom has default properties - here are two examples based on the inclusion of the data or a reference to an external file.

@M004@ OBJE
 TITL Taken from myimage.gif
 FORM gif
 BLOB 585 Raw Bytes
@M005@ OBJE
 TITL Pointing to local file
 FORM jpg
 FILE myimage.jpg