RE: TTW Mass Importing was (RE: [Zope] Help on mass import of images)
I have got the "FTP answer", but what do you mean with Zip? Uploading a Zip an then extracting it inside of Zope?
Yes, several people have done it this way. But this requires users to know how to use Zip and create their own archives to upload as a single file.
I am still in the search of a better way to allow a user to select multiple images from their local system and upload them all at one time, without having to use an ftp-app or zip. A TTW (thru the web) method to enable this would be very useful. Is anyone interested in helping to build a flexible Zope product to handle this? I am definitely interested, because this is the problem I am working on. I thought of a special kind of folderish object, that allows a mass upload (of course), but more important some kind of image management (keyword search, automatic thumbnail creation, etc.). But this would also require a special image class. I found the "Photo Product" on zope.org, but this was not exactly what I was looking for.
Well, I just want to address the upload issues. What you do with the uploads, inserting into a new 'meta-type', etc, is outside the requirement. I have several scenarios. 1. user has to upload several specific images thru a form and hit upload once. example: image1 [ ] [BROWSE] image2 [ ] [BROWSE] image3 [ ] [BROWSE] image4 [ ] [BROWSE] [UPLOAD ALL] The script can then rename all the images to be used appropriately in Zope. I currently have this in a ZClass, but they have to hit submit for each image. I dont want them to upload any images, unless they upload them all. 2. Upload mass images to folder Allow a user to go to a local directory and multi-select images to upload. Using [CTRL]-select or [SHIFT]-select would be ideal. Drag and Drop TTW would be "Heavenly" Ideal. So some Java may be required. Can your FTP solution do this? Cheers, -Trevor
--On 06 December 2001 09:54 -0500 Trevor Toenjes <zope@toenjes.com> wrote:
Drag and Drop TTW would be "Heavenly" Ideal.
Drag & Drop TTW file transfer _and_ WYSIWYG editing are the heavenly ideals from a usability perspective IHMO. But it seems that the devil has all the best tunes in this department - WebFolders and DHTML in IE. Things like edit-on Pro (http://www.realobjects.de/) offer a cross-platform solution to TTW WYSIWYG editing using Java - anyone know of similar approaches to file transfer (via the browser)? My requirement is that the end-user must not knowingly install new software (WebDrive is nice but too complicated for many users and is of course Windoze only). As in the case of edit-on Pro the software doesn't have to be no purchase cost - just good value. Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/
So does anyone know of a solution for TTW ftp? anyone? Bueller? I agree that this cannot be a proprietary solution. If IE is the only one to support it, I could force that as a requirement, but "NO" downloading of additional software should be required. -Trevor
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Browning [mailto:paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:24 AM To: zope Cc: Trevor Toenjes Subject: Heavenly ideals (RE: TTW Mass Importing was (RE: [Zope] Help on mass import of images))
--On 06 December 2001 09:54 -0500 Trevor Toenjes <zope@toenjes.com> wrote:
Drag and Drop TTW would be "Heavenly" Ideal.
Drag & Drop TTW file transfer _and_ WYSIWYG editing are the heavenly ideals from a usability perspective IHMO.
But it seems that the devil has all the best tunes in this department - WebFolders and DHTML in IE.
Things like edit-on Pro (http://www.realobjects.de/) offer a cross-platform solution to TTW WYSIWYG editing using Java - anyone know of similar approaches to file transfer (via the browser)?
My requirement is that the end-user must not knowingly install new software (WebDrive is nice but too complicated for many users and is of course Windoze only). As in the case of edit-on Pro the software doesn't have to be no purchase cost - just good value.
Paul
-- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/
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