I am trying to make some changes to a view that is displaying the images I have setup in an images content type that I think was created when I installed the images module. I wanted to adjust the display fields, but there was none defined. I also cant see a way to rebuild the thumbs.
I would like to move to imagefield and include the images in a normal view. I also have a larger 1024px file that I am going to link to I think on the full node display, where I want to show like buttons. I would also like to have like buttons above each photo.
I could get this to work using the easy_social module, but I had to choose teaser view and I could only display thumbnails. I basically want it to display as is now ( www.crsurfcam.com ) but with the easy social buttons and I want to link to a node display that shows a larger size of it, 1024px. This is the size we are uploading them in.
Either way, I know the first step is ditching the images module. Is there a way to do this?
edit. looks like this is geared around it, but I am still using drupal 6. http://drupal.org/project/field_convert > I can look into upgrading, but I am not sure if all of my modules are compatible yet, last I checked there was some missing. I was able to depreciate one that didn't seem like it was under active development ( the webcams module )
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Try this
If you have the CCk field named "Image" you may run into some troubles..
but have a look at this, it's older but will probably answer your questions or at least get you headed in the right direction
http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/148
its not using cck
I think the image module in d6 created its own content type. When I went in to modify the content type image, there was no fields defined that I could edit! I want to convert this field to use cck, if possible because I have a lot of uploads in it. There is the possibility of starting over and just making a new content type / view combo but I would have to remove thousands of images from the server. It is an option but a lot of those photos are bring in a lot of traffic to the site.
automatic conversion
Hmmmm... see this
http://drupal.org/node/607718
seems that there may be a way for this to be automated after all (which would rock)
However, this post IMHO gives a more complete answer and a script you can run to do this.
http://drupal.org/node/201983
This is a very lengthy post but I would strongly advise reading it in its entirety before proceeding...
I would backup everything first and then setup a sandbox to test this on first. (easy to do set up, if you need help let me know)
If all goes well on the sandbox site then you can do the same thing on the live site (in maintenance mode!)
Once you have run this conversion you should be able to take advantage of other image manipulation/storage/rendering etc modules and views...