The Image module now integrates with the Views module, and it would be nice if Postcard could use galleries generated by Views instead of the default Image-created ones. Presumably this would involve changing the code to allow Postcards to be sent from an Image node itself instead of by selecting the image in a gallery. This kind of functionality could also open the door to sending other types of content as postcards.

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add1sun commented
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I already have added the feature of the "send this as a postcard" link on the node itself so that you don't need to use the "postcard gallery" in addition to an image gallery. That code is in 5 dev and just hadn't gotten released yet (although it should, huh?) I need to get that out there.

As for not using gallery and just using views, I haven't even looked at that in Image module yet, but that said, I am already rewriting Postcard to not require Image or Image Gallery modules at all (http://drupal.org/node/174337). The initial D6 version will be a straight port of the existing Postcard module (depending on Image) and then all of the new code will be in a Postcard 6.x-2 release later.

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icecreamyou commented

Am I missing something, or is there supposed to be a 'send as postcard' link on nearly every node now? Is it restricted by nodes that are allowed to attach images? It would be nice just to have a series of check-boxes on the Postcard settings page that lets admin choose which content types can be sent as Postcards.

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add1sun commented

Currently Postcard only works with Image Gallery so the link only appears on Image nodes that are in the gallery you select in the Postcard settings page.

As I said above, breaking Postcard away from that requirement requires a complete rewrite of the module and I won't have time to work on that for a while yet, definitely after the D6 port (which is waiting on Image to be ported.) Patches for that functionality against the D6 branch are welcome.

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icecreamyou commented

Well, I have Postcard set to take images from All galleries, and instead it's accepting all nodes.

That said, it's probably fine. I would be shocked if anyone wanted to send a forum thread as a postcard, but who knows? It could be a birthday thread... ;)