Posted by sterndata on September 30, 2010 at 2:40pm
I'm working with a site that has many, many pages that each have many, many files attached. I've now been asked to look at reorganizing some of the nodes and attachments. Straightforward enough. However, some of those files should/could be attached to more than one node. I really don't want to upload multiple copies of the same file.
Is there a way to attach the SAME file to more than one node? The File Attachments dialog has only an upload button. Is there a variation that has a search or browse server button?
And, in case it makes a difference, we are using the private file system option.
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Node Reference in combination with Views?
What about using Node Reference to refer node B to node A, where node A has the attachments desired? You could then use a Views block to grab the nid of node A from node B, load node A, and display just the attachments from node A?
or
create a master node and just link to it? could just be simpler...
Dunno if it would actually work but that's where I would start looking.
Sorry for the delayed reply,
Sorry for the delayed reply, but if you use Filefield instead of the core "attachment" feature, you can easily browse the server for files you would like to re-use with the "Fielfield Sources" module http://drupal.org/project/filefield_sources