How to upload venue photos

Paste a photo URL into the Map + Photos card on the dashboard, add an optional caption, and click Add photo. Research adds photos automatically too.

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Venue photos are stored by URL — Overture doesn't upload image files from your computer. Paste the URL of an image hosted anywhere (the venue's own site, a Dropbox share link, a Google Drive direct link, anywhere image URLs work) and it appears in the venue photo strip on the dashboard.

Venue Map + Photos card on the dashboard, with a map of the Hyatt Regency Chicago, eight photo thumbnails, and the Paste photo URL field below.
The Map + Photos card sits near the bottom of the event dashboard. Paste a photo URL, add an optional caption, click Add photo.

To add a photo

  1. Open the event and click the Dashboard tab.
  2. Scroll down until you see the Map + Photos section (full width, near the bottom).
  3. Paste a photo URL into the "Paste photo URL" field. A sample value would look like https://example.com/ballroom.jpg.
  4. (Optional) Type a short caption in the "Caption (optional)" field. The caption appears overlaid at the bottom of the photo.
  5. Click Add photo. The photo appears at the end of the photo strip.

Photos that come from research

When you click Fetch photos & map on a venue, Overture pulls photos automatically from public sources. Those photos appear in the same strip as ones you've pasted manually. If a research photo URL later breaks (the host removed it), Overture quietly hides it on this device — but won't delete it, because a temporary network blip shouldn't nuke a good photo. The next time you run research it'll get re-validated on the server.

To delete a photo

Hover any photo in the strip. A small trash icon appears in the upper-right corner. Click it. The photo is removed immediately. (There's no confirmation dialog, so be sure.)

What kinds of URLs work