Bulk upload of photos as nodes related to a gallery

Posted by yelvington on January 4, 2012 at 5:27pm

I'm close to concluding that D7 is a nonstarter for a project that I have in mind. Please tell me I'm wrong. Here's what I want:

Images are nodes, so they can be commented, nodequeued, RSS'ed, etc. This seems pretty straightforward.
Galleries are nodes so they, too, can have all the node goodness. Images contain references to their parent galleries. This, too, seems pretty straightforward.
Bulk upload of images, creating their nodes and assigning them to their parent galleries. [FAIL]
Bulk editing of image titles, captions, etc. Views editablefields can probably do this.
Bulk rearrangement/sequencing of the image nodes. Views draggableviews can probably do this.

I'm not finding anything that supports #3. Drupal.org's module search is currently broken (filter by Drupal version doesn't work) and that's not helping me, but I've looked at a lot of projects and I'm not coming up with anything.

Basically I want something that works like Node Gallery (Drupal 6) with plupload. It's not ported to D7, and the D7 plupload integration module doesn't seem to do anything on its own. Other tools I've used over the years, including one that supports Gallery Remote, aren't available for D7.