Is this module able to put a thumbnail on the node page that links to the file instead of just the file name? In the project pages says that the ImageField module will show an image preview, but I am guessing that is only on the upload dialogue box.

I am having difficulty finding a module that simplifies building nodes to display galleries of image files, doc files, and PDF files...all with thumbnails and using the same mechanism. I would prefer to install one module that was able to make galleries flexibly with any file type. I see that the Gallery2 integration module is not maintained and I think Gallery2 doesn't handle PDFs very well. I am keeping my eye on the File Framework module, but it is still in alpha.

Anyone have a good suggestion? I have become a huge fan of Drupal, but the lack of a general purpose gallery to handle the display of thumbnails for various filetypes seems like a missing, but greatly needed component.

My company has a large hierarchy of folders and files of various types that we do not want to recreate in node bodies, but instead to make the files themselves available via a gallery within Drupal. Also because we have so many files it would be tedious to have to manually link and upload each one to a node or attach one by one through FileField. It would be better to simply FTP my whole file hierarchy to the Drupal files folder and then tell my fantasy gallery module where the root of the hierarchy is and let it build the galleries autmatically with a little direction from me.

Any suggestions? Thanks for any help.

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Is this module able to put a thumbnail on the node page that links to the file instead of just the file name?

You should install the ImageCache module to create thumbnails of images. Unfortunately this will only work with images, and it does not handle things like PDF or any other file type. I'd suggest looking at the ImageCache issue for supporting PDFs, which might be added in the future #366373: PDF support ( i.e. convert PDF to JPG support).

Anyway, the FileField queue is not a suitable place to ask how to build a gallery. FileField is purely a tool for uploading files to your Drupal site, once the files are uploaded how you want to display them is a task best served by Views, ImageCache, and other modules.

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Thanks for the reply.

I plan to use FileField for some applications on my website because it does upload and display the list of uploaded files nicely on a page. With one small addition of displaying thumbnails of various file types it could have also served a larger need for me, but that may be out of the scope of this module. I will check out ImageCache but I think that is a tool for making Thumbnails of images only.

Most Drupal module gallery tools are limited to a focus on images and video. I am looking for a more general purpose tool that is able to make thumbnails and galleries of files of any type. I was hopeful that FileField was such a tool. I will also keep my eye on the File Framework module because that seems to be headed in the direction of my need.

Thanks again.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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