Posted by deepM on October 27, 2010 at 6:17pm
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| Project: | FileField UI Extras |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (won't fix) |
Issue Summary
Usually extended field shows after files is transfered so i have to wait to input data. How could i show it right away when selecting image source?
Comments
#1
I'm locked into how ImageField generates the base form that makes up this area. This make this request either a) extremely hard and hacky or b) not possible.
Sorry for not being able to provide the answer that you wanted. It is possible to set defaults from memory, so these may reduce the pain slightly.
Cheers
Alan
#2
Marking postponed, just in case someone comes up with a clean implementation.
So guys and girls - patches welcome!!!
#3
I had an idea to just override node form and add description field or extended field i used to form and then submit. Wondered if there is some other way to have this done.
What i really want to do is to paste source url of image i am uploading to extended field as i need to have source of image i am uploading.
I dont understand planing of imagefield/filefield whoever is responsable, it looks kind of cool when description or extended fields shows after upload, but if you have 10 pictures, each 1mb then u have to wait for each to upload and then to enter data, this becomes just stupid eye candy which is not good UI.
#4
It is due to how it works, each individual upload is effectively the primary key that controls the data storage. You need the upload to save data against. The upload replaces the entire form widget, so I'm not sure how you would bypass this.
#5
Well i can try and fail if its impossbile and curse people who made this and never uploaded 10 images or more to realize its not user friendly:-)
#6
It would be better on this helper module. This currently only controls the collapsed state of the fieldset epending if data is entered, etc.
#7
There are no more plans for developing this on Drupal 6.x and the module is obsolete on Drupal 7.x. Sorry.
As an aside, this is more related to how ImageField / Core handles the uploads and they said that this is a big "won't fix"
#8
Ok, at least they admit it needs fixing but they aren't going to :-)
This is just bad UI then and slowers efficency to enter data for users. Maybe D8 then.