File Management - Drupal 6

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Posted by abelb on July 9, 2009 at 4:56pm

I am looking for a good module or group of modules that work well for file management.
I want for it to be super easy to use, somewhat like browser view of ftp, easy to upload files, rename, drag/drop into directories, create directories, etc.
I also want to be able to assign terms to / tag file uploads.

I found this post comparing a bunch of different solutions:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/20291

Just curious what people have used and/or what you can suggest.

thanks!
andrea

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Also looking..

Posted by mobando on July 9, 2009 at 7:07pm

I assist in running a local cycling group. We are looking to transfer to Drupal. We have 100+ local maps of rides, and need a clean module to file them.

Thanks,

-- Martin

WebFM and Gallery2

Posted by maestrojed on July 9, 2009 at 10:06pm

Hi Andrea,

I just completed a project with a similar need. I ended up using WebFM. Files can be managed via FTP or the JS UI. However this option does not give you the ability to tag files (at least I don't think it does).

I also also have gone about this in the past by adapting Gallery2. I reworded Gallery2 so that albums where "folders" and pictures were "files". Gallery2 already accepts a wide variety of file types beyond just images. This worked well and would allow for your tag files. The problem I had was I wanted to batch upload and organize with FTP. There is a great java applet to batch upload files but it sorts albums/"folders" by date created. So if you have a lot of albums/"folders" in the same level it can be frustrating to shift through.

I should mention that I wanted my files to be restricted and organized on a per user basis. I.e. I wanted to privately provide files to particular users. If you do not have this requirement there may be other options I did not explore.

Hope this helps a little.

Jed

Jed Herzog
Outlier Solutions Inc.

Your question reminds me of one of the presentations from the May meeting of the Portland Drupal User Group. Justin Miller gave an excellent presentation that discussed alternative file management approaches with Drupal, among several other topics. He also gave this presentation at DrupalCon DC; you can view the video and slides of his presentation online.

I have not personally used the File Framework or File Server modules that he described, but they sound promising for your needs. It's an option to investigate, at least.

Hey Andrea, Just watched

Posted by seanberto on July 15, 2009 at 3:24pm

Hey Andrea,

Just watched that Mustard Seed podcast on Filefield inline images (http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode29). It was awesome. Thanks for pointing me to Mustard Seed.

Quick question, though, how did dude bro get the image field appear in the right-hand column next to the body field? Is there some quick helper module that will put the node edit form into two columns like that?

Cheers,
Sean

I think he just overrode the CSS

Posted by abelb on July 15, 2009 at 6:58pm

Just checked the comments from that podcast on the mustardseedmedia site and someone asked a similar question.

His answer:
"All I did here was use CSS in my style.css to override any existing styles. I simply sized and floated both the body and image boxes and that was it."

I'm guessing he had dome some modifications to the admin theme as well for only those fields to show.

Also, in the comments, there was mention of another module
Filefield Sources (http://drupal.org/project/filefield_sources) which enables reuse of existing images/files in the system and external sources as well.

i can't wait to try these modules out, I will let you know how it goes.

-andrea

Hey A, I actually built out

Posted by seanberto on July 15, 2009 at 9:06pm

Hey A,

I actually built out a little demo site with these modules yesterday. It was quick and painless - and works /really/ well. The only thing that I don't like about this approach is that it still ties the image with the node. So, I don't see how this would work in a scenario in which you're trying to build out a reusable image library. It seems like you'd still need something like IMCE for embedding pre-uploaded images into the body of a node.

But otherwise, rock on.

-s

Filefield sources

Posted by bonobo on July 15, 2009 at 9:15pm

allows you to insert previously uploaded content --

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file resuse

Posted by levelos on July 15, 2009 at 9:55pm

The real advancement with this approach to file management, IMHO, is actually reuse and not orphaning assets. An asset (image, doc, etc) gets associated with one or more nodes, and will actually be removed from the file system only if ALL of the nodes it's associated with are deleted. I've found that IMCE leaves a dirty trail of unused images laying around that you have no way of knowing if they're being used.

Lev Tsypin

ThinkShout, Inc.
thinkshout.com | twitter.com/levelos

Filefield sources module

Posted by mikey_p on July 15, 2009 at 10:40pm

Filefield sources module actually lets you reuse any uploaded image, even if it was attached to a different node. When you pair this up with Filefield insert (with this patch: http://drupal.org/node/516298) WYSIWYG API, and Image Resize Filter, the end result is an amazing amount of bundled and integrated image handling. The above combination is probably more powerful and flexible than just about any Drupal image solution that has come before.

This is true (I'm using that

Posted by wonder95 on July 15, 2009 at 11:10pm

This is true (I'm using that combination on a site), but there still are a couple issues. One is that it would also be nice to use imagefield_crop to crop an image, but it doesn't work because the crop and sources widgets overwrite each other. According to quicksketch, this is an issue that needs to be addressed in CCK.

Here are the relevant issues:

http://drupal.org/node/490470
http://drupal.org/node/495206
http://drupal.org/node/495210
http://drupal.org/node/417122

Rad, Mikey_p. Thanks for

Posted by seanberto on July 16, 2009 at 3:31am

Rad, Mikey_p. Thanks for pointing me at that patch!

Hey A, Haven't played with

Posted by seanberto on July 20, 2009 at 1:16am

Hey A,

Haven't played with it yet, but I'm wondering if he might have used this module for that two-column node edit form:

http://drupal.org/project/nodeformcols

-s

cool module!

Posted by abelb on July 20, 2009 at 3:55am

i installed it on the site im working on, right now im just using the garland theme. It put the group of links (Menu Settings, Revision Info, Comment Settings etc) in a righthand column next to the editor. but the image upload field is still below the editor because it is an added field. im guessing with a little manipulation i can get the image upload on the righthand side as well but im still thinking just using css.

-a

I need to install and try this --

Posted by bonobo on July 20, 2009 at 1:18pm

campsoupster -- thanks for the pointer.

From this screenshot linked from the module page, it looks like the location of various fields can be controlled via a UI: http://drupal.org/node/378616

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