[support] node image bulk upload?

[Shai Gluskin]

Sander,

In order to advise, I'd need to know more about how the consultant built the
functionality in question.

Did he/she use cck fields imagefield and imagecache for instance?

Or did he/she use the image_attach module that comes with the Image module?

Actually, in either of those cases I don't believe there is a bulk upload
possibility. I just did a quick search on IMCE and I don't think the bulk
upload feature is done yet for that either.

Sorry about your situation -- you might want to sponsor the creation of such
functionality if it doesn't exist in the manner that you want it. My
experience with Drupal is that you can't assume anything about what
functionality should be there. Sometimes the most amazing things are so easy
to do and what would seem basic is quite difficult.

Good luck,

Shai

On 9/10/07, sander-martijn < sander at sander-martijn.com> wrote:
>
>  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 > 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> 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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