Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.The Image module will upload a single from the desktop.
The Image Import sub-module will bulk create new image nodes from existing files on the server.
But when editing an existing image node I want add an image from files pre-existing on the server - seems you can only upload?
Comments
Comment #1
marcor commentedThe same in the current 5.x-1.9-Version. Adding existing image nodes was already possible in earlier versions of this module.
Comment #2
marcor commentedSorry, just a matter of configuration in image_attach.module, so maybe just this config-option is new.
Attaching of existing images can be enabled here:
admin/settings/image_attach
Comment #3
John Bryan commentedIn the Image attach settings there is an enable/disable option. But this is to allow attachment of pre-existing image "nodes" to other nodes (according to display text).
What I am looking for is that when editing or creating an image node to have the fairly basic ability to either browse and upload a picture from the client computer (as now) or browse and use an image file already existing on the site.
An example of usage...
Currently to convert a node into an image node you have to download the image from the existing node and then re-upload it in the image node. It would be much easier just to browse to the existing file.
Comment #4
sunSorry, unfortunately this request is way too specific. Please have a look at the issue queue - Image maintainers are buried already. You might want to try to get further support at http://drupal.org/support. Additionally, the answer to your question might be covered in the handbooks at http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/image already.
If you were able to solve this issue on your own in the meantime, you might want to add the involved steps to this closed issue, so other users searching for a similar solution might find it.