Sander,<br><br>In order to advise, I'd need to know more about how the consultant built the functionality in question. <br><br>Did he/she use cck fields imagefield and imagecache for instance?<br><br>Or did he/she use the image_attach module that comes with the Image module?
<br><br>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.<br><br>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.
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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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
thanks,<br><span>
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<blockquote type="cite">Sander,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
One thing I didn't mention, because I haven't used it, is IMCE. It gets
good reviews and it <span style="font-weight: bold;">doesn't</span>
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.
<br>
<br>
Shai<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">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.<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
sander
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Shai Gluskin wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Sander,<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Shai<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ist
there a way to allow for bulk upload of images attached to nodes?<br>
One option that would work would be to display multiple file browsers on<br>
the node's edit page instead of one at a time. Another would be to ftp
<br>
the images to the server and then somehow attach them. Or perhaps<br>
there's already a module for it?<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
.s<br>
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