[support] node image bulk upload?
sander-martijn
sander at sander-martijn.com
Mon Sep 10 16:00:09 UTC 2007
It is gallery functionality. I had queried this list on options for
building galleries and tried just about every module I could to build it
out with no luck. As I'm on a tight deadline and have a lot of other
stuff to build on the site, I ended up hiring someone off the drupal
paid services forum to build it. Most of the functionality I need is
there - the main thing missing is any type of bulk upload and the client
is really pushing for it (as in now). Since it's pretty much working I
don't really have the option to rebuild it now - I just need a way to
add some sort of bulk upload.
Since you can upload as many images to the node as you want I don't see
why it wouldn't be possible to do them more than one at a time, I just
don't know how to do it.
thanks,
.s
Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Sander,
>
> I don't have time to really mull this -- but it sounds like you are in
> need of gallery functionality. I don't like the gallery functionality
> that comes with the Image module install.
>
> Acidfree is much better, but not perfect. With acidfree you can create
> an "album" which is a special node type that will include references
> to all the image nodes that you've imported into the album. The images
> are nodes, but they are also included in the album node that you've
> created.
>
> Then there is Gallery2 which is kind of bloatware if you don't need
> everything, has its own significant learning curve, and suffers from
> not being a "made for Drupal" project -- though if you need what it
> does, its great.
>
> One thing I didn't mention, because I haven't used it, is IMCE. It
> gets good reviews and it doesn't create images as nodes, it just
> inserts them into nodes. I believe I read about a bulk upload feature
> in the works or maybe already done -- check it out. Having the
> individual images as nodes has a certain elegance but can create its
> own overhead/complexity which, if you don't need it, is better done
> without.
>
> Shai
>
>
> On 9/10/07, *sander-martijn* <sander at sander-martijn.com
> <mailto:sander at sander-martijn.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I checked out the first option which would be perfect
> (haven't tried the second yet) and realized I have to clarify
> something. The image_import module creates image nodes. What I
> have set up is node_images, where you can attach images to a
> node. Currently you have to do this one at a time. There will be
> a lot of Nodes (probably about 50-60 maybe more, each representing
> a gallery) and there will be about 5-10 images attached to each
> node. I'm looking for a way to either upload all the images by
> ftp and then pull them into the the nodes or have multiple upload
> fields display on the node at a time so that several can be
> attached at once.
>
> thanks
> sander
>
>
> Shai Gluskin wrote:
>> Sander,
>>
>> The image_import module (which comes with the Image module) does
>> this the FTP way. First upload via FTP and then bulk import to
>> nodes. Obviously the limitation there is that only admins with
>> FTP privileges can do it.
>>
>> The Acidfree module has a way to allow users to do it, by
>> uploading a zip or tar file from an Import Images screen. Problem
>> there is a lot of end users won't be agile enough with
>> zipping/tarring. In addition, OS X's built-in zipping function
>> (called Archive) -- includes resource fork files which then get
>> turned into blank image nodes. So even with Acidfree folk who
>> feel comfortable with zipping -- you explain to Mac users how to
>> make a "clean" archive.
>>
>> I think what a lot of folks long for is something similar to the
>> interface that Facebook uses for bulk image uploads. I'm sure it
>> will arrive sooner or later, I'm not up on who might be working
>> on thinking about such a tool. Maybe others know.
>>
>> The Acidfree interface when you do the bulk upload is nice, being
>> able to edit relevant node fields for all the images on the same
>> screen.
>>
>> Shai
>>
>> On 9/10/07, * sander-martijn* <sander at sander-martijn.com
>> <mailto:sander at sander-martijn.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Ist there a way to allow for bulk upload of images attached
>> to nodes?
>> One option that would work would be to display multiple file
>> browsers on
>> the node's edit page instead of one at a time. Another would
>> be to ftp
>> the images to the server and then somehow attach them. Or
>> perhaps
>> there's already a module for it?
>>
>> thanks
>> .s
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