Improving TXP Image Management

Ace of Dubs · 2006-10-06 16:07:18

Thanks for the tip, amigo. Will def give it a spin :)

Skubidu · 2006-10-23 20:35:00

A few months ago I posted a screenshot of my plugin nhn_image_organizer.
The project is still alive :) I just have to finish my final thesis at university.
But as a teaser for you, a new preview:

TNT · 2006-10-23 21:16:02

This is making me very curious!

But what are you doing here? Go on, finish your thesis! :-)

squaredeye · 2006-10-23 22:32:45

This is making me very curious!

CURIOUS! HOW CAN YOU JUST BE CURIOUS! This is making me squeel like a pig! Cmon Thesis!
Nils, watch out or I may even PRAY for you!

I’m excited to see where this goes…

:)

Matthew

jakob · 2006-10-24 07:41:44

That looks fantastic, nils!

Ace of Dubs · 2006-10-24 09:33:49

Now that’s what I’m talkin about!

Go Nils, GO!

jameslomax · 2006-10-24 09:35:28

Skubidu wrote:

A few months ago I posted a screenshot of my plugin nhn_image_organizer.
The project is still alive :) I just have to finish my final thesis at university.

Thesis? Dude, get your priorities right :)

That looks great – can’t wait to see it!

Last edited by jameslomax (2006-10-24 09:36:12)

jagorny · 2006-11-12 05:48:13

This looks like a great tool to use as a compliment to the recent ransom of the flash batch uploader…

hakjoon · 2006-11-12 06:20:25

Please everyone go look at Wet’s great new plugin which combined with upm_image goes a long way in meeting some of the image tag requests.

feragnoli · 2006-11-15 19:30:36

hello, I hacked for my own use a version of rss_thumbpop in order to make it able to look for image categories named after the Url-only name of an article. It just seemed an easier way to remember what image category was related to an article rather than having to check every time for the article id.

There I began to think about the overal Image Management in Textpattern.
I think the continuous switch forth and back between write and images is really painful; the same goes for any image selector which opens in a popup.

My considerations are that:

Images should just be manageable form the write tab, as much as any other detail of the article (title, body/content, etc). That is:
- upload (single or batch)
- categorization (assigning a category or group in order to relate them to the article which is being edited)
The images tab should be for general image files management: viewing, deleting, rearranging. That means:
- there should be a checkbox just like in the content > articles tab allowing to assign a category, deleting or thumbnail generation for the checked images (with selected: change…, delete, etc)

The batch upload is being tested by Eric Limegrover here – seems to work fine. Couldn’t be included in the write tab?
As for what my goal was, I intended adding a create image category button under the Url-only title field to… yes, to create an image category from within the write article tab but so far I’m not able… to put my hands in there.
Yet that would save my users from copying-pasting between different windows: they would be able to write the article, upload the images and group them from within the same page to only at last switch to the images tab in order to _batch assign the category to the desired images (you know, some people really don’t find computers easy).

Hope that doesn’t sound out of place here…
Thanks

Last edited by feragnoli (2006-11-15 19:31:58)

squaredeye · 2006-11-15 19:45:49

Feragnoli,
I think those are great ideas and issues.
Its worth continuing to think about. If you know how to submit patches, or work with plugin devs that can be the most helpful.
For myself, I would like to go after UI changes considering my abilities are more in design than in coding.

Matthew

hakjoon · 2006-11-15 20:13:14

feragnoli wrote: categorization (assigning a category or group in order to relate them to the article which is being edited)

I feel like article -> Image relationships are exactly what the article-image field are for. It’s exactly that, this article is related to these images. Articles and images don’t necessarily have any relationship. I can have images that exist solely in an image gallery context without being attached to any articles.

Now a simpler mechanism to attach a full category of images to an article could/should be devised, but I still feel that something like creating a category with the same name as an article or something is just a hack. The way to generate relationships is using something like article-image field.

Ez-publish has this feature called related objects that let’s you attach objects to that article. The display is different depending on the view or object, so you would in essence attach the image category to the article and then decide how that attached object should render (mini gallery, link to gallery). This gives you ultimate flexibility because the category will still be attached to the article even if titles or names change.

Just a thought, but it seems that attaching elements to articles is a need already otherwise things like upm_file_packets would not exist.

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