Image in forum topic included in gallery
Steve R - July 5, 2009 - 18:12
I am not sure which Drupal version is being used, but I belong to a brand new family forum in which I have noticed what I consider to be a bug:
Posting an image in forum topic results in an additional gallery entry with its own thread. Yet the picture in the gallery may be entirely out of context outside the topic thread in which it was posted.
I have never seen this behavior before, and I, as a programmer and designer, consider it to be very confusing and actually a bug.
Any comment?
Thanks!
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I'm trying to figure out what the question is here... It sounds as though you have an issue with how someone else has chosen to set up their site. If that's the case, there's not anything we can do about it... You'd need to take that up with the site owner.
Or am I misreading this?
Michelle
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I'm looking for folks to help me out by posting in my Coulee Region forums. You don't need to live in the area; there's plenty of general forums. But please, no Drupal support questions. :)
My young nephew is handling
My young nephew is handling our private family site, and I am trying to understand this issue.
Can you please tell me something about the setup that would allow a member to insert an image in a forum topic comment without that image showing up in the gallery as well?
My nephew does not know how to prevent this situation without also disabling thread behavior in the gallery.
Not enough information
You're asking questions that can't be answered. There are a dozen or more different ways to add images to a site in Drupal. Without knowing more about how he has the site set up, we really can't help you. At the very least, we need to know what modules he's using for the images, the gallery, and the forum.
Michelle
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I'm looking for folks to help me out by posting in my Coulee Region forums. You don't need to live in the area; there's plenty of general forums. But please, no Drupal support questions. :)
Thank you
I will try to get him into this discussion. I appreciate you interest and willingness to help.
Sounds pretty clear to me and
Sounds pretty clear to me and is fundamental to the way Drupal works. Every bit of content in Drupal gets added to the system as a new object. One of the ways to add an image to a post (or comment) is to attach the image as a file. However then it won't show up inline and that doesn't sound like what's happening in your system. The other way to add an image is using a module which supports adding inline images into a content post (or comment), then the image is first getting added as its own node, then getting inserted into the comment. This is in fact working as intended and again is one of the strengths of Drupal, especially when used with Taxonomy. Now, to fully take advantage of this your site should implement Taxonomy or something that separates images which have been added to other content versus images which have been added to some sort of picture gallery.
A gallery in Drupal is little more than a view of a bunch of nodes of type 'image'. One of the ways that you can organize your images is to create a taxonomy category for images with terms for 'content image' and 'photo gallery'. Make sure that images that you want in your Photo Gallery get added as term 'Photo Gallery'. Make sure that views which show your Photo Gallery images filter on that term.