It would be nice to have a spot where users could add photos / videos / other media to their profiles. node_media is one possibility. Looking into other options as well. Suggestions welcome.

Michelle

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mrgoltra commented

this would be really nice. Subscribing

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Could users not just create video nodes using CCK embedded media field (or video CCK) which then appear in a pane with a view of users' videos.

The same could be done with CCK image field then a pane with a view of users' images (possibly using thickbox to allow them to display better)

i'm sorry if I might just be stating the obvious. (this is my first step into making actual suggestions on drupal) If users can create video/image nodes...then they appear in a pane with a view of all a users content of that type.

I'm going to be adding video and pictures to my profiles this way. I'll try and jot down how I do it and add it here.

I think it's fairly straightforward. I've added the equivalent with a blog to a profile (image attached). If it can be done with blogs, it's the same process for video and pictures.

Hopefully in the next couple of days I'll be able to show you a better version of these.

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There's a lot of modules for adding media to a site. The problem is that, as far as I know, most of them don't have panels support. Panels 2 is still pretty new so a lot of modules don't work with it yet. To get advprofile working so far I've added panels support to CCK, bio, nodeprofile, core profile, and activity (though that needs fixing because activity changed). So what I mean in this post is more that I need to add in the panels support for displaying the media. But I don't have enough time to do it with every possible module out there so I need to focus on one and say if you use module X, the support is automatic.

The nice thing about basing this all on panels, though, is people are free to use whatever modules they like with their profile. If they'd rather use a different module, it's just a matter of getting the panels support in.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look at that one as well.

Michelle

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bwv commented

Hi Michelle. I am using your incredible module on a site I am developing for a client, and I intend to go live with it in a few weeks (I meant to ask you if you thought that was a good idea). I have added an image gallery to the user profile page by creating a view that pulls images created by the logged in user into a block. All I had to do was add that block to an existing content area. It seems to work just fine. I have not tried it with other media (audio, vieo) but see no reason why the same approach would not work.

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Using it on a live site should be ok. Just be very careful with upgrades. I'm not the best with CVS and I'm also pretty new at writing modules so I do sometimes break things when I update. I plan on releasing an alpha version soon and then I'll be very careful with "official" versions so that should help.

As to the topic at hand, in that case you were using views for the gallery and views works with panels. What I was talking about was a way to attach images directly to the profile node, without making them nodes. Since they would be part of the node, we need a way to display them in a pane, which requires a panels content type.

Michelle

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bwv commented

That is great news, thank you. Any attempts on my part at upgrades will be preceded by multiple downloads of the existing DB (LOL).

Thanks for clarifying the second point. david

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Status: Active » Fixed

On socnet, I used http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_gallery for this and it works great.

Michelle

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.