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alias: user-guide-create-multimedia
description: "Define multimedia characteristics and create a new multimedia object within a system"
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# Create Multimedia

:lock: Multimedia.**Create**

## Overview

This operation is used to create a **Multimedia**, i.e., to define a set of desired characteristics of a **Multimedia** object.

## Setup

No specific setup is required other than to meet the precondition of the transaction.  

## Preconditions

* The **Multimedia** name must be unique.

## Sequence of Steps

### Step 1: General Data

1. Enter the name.
2. Optionally, enter the description.
3. Select the *Scope* - select the scope which best describes the usage of the **Multimedia**. Beware that only **Multimedia** objects of scope *Loss* can be used with **Electronic Failure Catalog**.
4. Select a folder where the **Multimedia** object will be placed.
5. Press *Browse* and select the file to be associated with the **Multimedia** object.
6. Select **Create** to complete the operation and the new **Multimedia** will be created.

![create_multimedia][create_multimedia]

[create_multimedia]: images/create_multimedia.png