Image gallery using specified folders?
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My sites are informative sites that feature registries of musical instruments. It's more convenient for me to upload pics of each instrument into it's own folder to keep them better organized but I'm having trouble finding an image gallery block that will allow me to organize the pics in this manner. Other than using Picassa, Flickr, Photobucket, etc, does anyone know of a block that will work with my folders?
Users send me their pics via email then I upload them in a folder via FTP. The pics are then used to create a page about their particular instrument. I like to keep each instrument's pics in it's own folder for better organization and reference.
You can do this in C5 with bulk uploading and file sets.
Create a new directory called "incoming" inside the "files" directory on your server.
Upload all of the files for a user to that directory via FTP.
Then in C5, go to the File Manager (in the dashboard), then click the little "More" link at the top-right of the window, then click the second tab ("Add Incoming"), then you should see the files you uploaded there. After you've added them, a little dialog box will show up, click the "File Sets" link, then create a new file set for these images by entering a name into the textbox (and make sure the checkbox next to it is checked).
Now all of the images will be separated by Fileset, which you can quickly find in the file manager using the filters to the left of the list. Also, most image galleries let you choose a file set to display, so it will be really easy to display just 1 user's images on a particular page.
Hope that helps!
-Jordan
Create a new directory called "incoming" inside the "files" directory on your server.
Upload all of the files for a user to that directory via FTP.
Then in C5, go to the File Manager (in the dashboard), then click the little "More" link at the top-right of the window, then click the second tab ("Add Incoming"), then you should see the files you uploaded there. After you've added them, a little dialog box will show up, click the "File Sets" link, then create a new file set for these images by entering a name into the textbox (and make sure the checkbox next to it is checked).
Now all of the images will be separated by Fileset, which you can quickly find in the file manager using the filters to the left of the list. Also, most image galleries let you choose a file set to display, so it will be really easy to display just 1 user's images on a particular page.
Hope that helps!
-Jordan
> Create a new directory called "incoming" inside the "files"
> directory on your server.
> Upload all of the files for a user to that directory via FTP.
Cool, I didn't know that!
-Steve
> directory on your server.
> Upload all of the files for a user to that directory via FTP.
Cool, I didn't know that!
-Steve
Perhaps there's a C5 feature you're unaware of or an approach you hadn't considered. Or perhaps you or a developer can create a custom solution to suit your needs.
-Steve