Posted by ltwinner on August 29, 2009 at 10:39am
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| Project: | ImageField |
| Version: | 6.x-3.1 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
Say I have a sports website and I have an article content type. I have image of various sports in a folder on my website. I want to add an image field to each article that shows what sport the article is about, so every golf article gets a picture of a golfer, every soccer article gets am image of a soccer ball, every boxing article gets an image of a pair of boxing gloves, etc....
The thing is I dont need to keep uploading the same image multiple times for every article...for example all golf articles will use the same golfer.jpg image. I already have the images in a folder on my site, is there any way to just assign these existing images to a cck node? Or do I have to upload the same image every time if I use the ImageField module?
Comments
#1
Subscribing.
#2
See FileField Sources and specifically this issue #438940: Add ability to use file uploaded via FTP.
#3
I see your point in that thread. After I subscribed, I found the IMCE cck field module. My workaround for your module would have been to use a resized version of the file and with the automatic generation of a new name, there would be no problems. But, as it turns out, IMCE cck won't easily work for other reasons, so I have opted to not worry about reusing files from the server.
My problem wasn't not wanting to save disk space as much as ease of use for my members. A simple solution for me, to the problem mentioned in your thread, would have been to save the files just in another file folder or to have the file renamed on reuse.
#4
Yep, any further input, please join in that other issue. I anticipate adding the functionality eventually in FileField Sources, but my other module obligations are keeping me tied up right now getting ready for Drupal 7.
#5
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.