Hi guys,
Been trying to find a solution for this for weeks now and seriously could need some help pointing me in the right direction or at least tell me if this is possible or not.
I have set up a site with Content Profile and a workflow so each profile can be audited before going live. Initially I wanted to use the Revisioning as well so the last approved profile was live when a user is working on an update. However after a lot of testing with that i became clear it both would be much to complicated for the users and also the side effects regarding other content was not very welcomed.
These profiles will also have one ore more images vied on the, which I plan to use theme templates and theme preprocessor to make happen.
What I haven't been able to find out though is how to manage the image upload and auditing of them.
Basically what I need is:
- Users to be able to upload images to a private user folder
- Manipulate the images using imagaecache with contrib modules
- A content admin to be able to view these images and individually make them live (publish them)
- Use theme templates, including theme preprocessor functions to include live images
I have looked at more or less every image/gallery module, but the problems I have found with all of them is that it is very hard to limit where images are being viewed as most galleries create automatic views and such and auditing is hard to do. Images managed as nodes will work with the workflow but there to these modules does not give me enough settings for limit where they are viewed.
Manual alternative
As an alternative I have been trying to find a solution where users can upload images to a UID based folder on the site and we manually download and manipulate them, such as cropping and resizing before uploading them to a UID based live folder.
I have looked at file managers, but can't even find something that just let them upload to the folder and nothing else.
The closest I have found to make this manageable is using the Webform module...
Alternatively I have been
Comments
Perhaps of interest...
I recently installed the FCKEditor on our sites and was impressed with the built in image management tools. There's a nice file manager that allows for the creation of folders to support groupings. I think access to the images could be managed with permissions but I'll have to dig further as we're still working on basic configuration/customization.
Be warned, the install and config is a little involved with lots of different config files to deal with. When it works it really is a nice addition from the users perspective and provides some tools to manage how content/formatting is being added to your site.
Yeah, the fckeditor module
Yeah, the fckeditor module is a bit of pain, I use it one a few sites. Recently though I installed the Wysiwyg module and also the Better Formats module to get more control of the input formats. Wysiwyg is not as flexible as the fckeditor module yet but it does support many editors. Together with the Better Formats module I got an easier system to administrate. One of the main ups is that you don't need to modify any module files which could create a pain when updating the fckeditor module.
Unfortunately the image management in the editor is of no use for me is this case as all pages will have a uniform layout so authors will have no possibility to insert images as they please.
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The wonders...
Setting FCK up so that you don't make changes to it's core files was the big challenge for me. It was tricky to figure out what it needed for path information. I did manage to figure it out and thus was able to setup config files outside of the FCK core files allowing upgrades to not break things. I did look at the Wysiwyg module but it was not quite at the functionality level we needed. I'm sure we'll revisit it as development continues. As for the Better Formats module, that's news to me. The wonders of the Druapl community... I tried to offer you some info and now I find myself learning new things - thanks!
How things can turn out lol.
How things can turn out lol. Glad I could help you a little.
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/thomas
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