You need to download Mephsito and try out their system: they have many (not all) of these problems worked out. The Assets page lets you search through everything with tags, titles or asset type, then drag a small selection to a bucket. The bucket shows up when editing a page, where you can attach it. It is very slick.
You can also upload an image while editing a page, directly into the bucket. I think this covers most people worries, and gives you a central place to edit, caption and tag the images/assets. But this has been an interesting conversation and it is good to hear so many ideas about this issue. On Feb 25, 2007, at 11:47 PM, Daniel Sheppard wrote: >> No user wants to hear about DRY. Users like another Ruby tenant... >> "it does what you would expect." They expect that if they're editing >> a page, they can add an image from that page. (Of course, they also >> expect WYSIWYG, and that the image will be automatically resized and >> appear in the editor...) > > For another usecase showing why I want (well, need) images attached to > pages, have a look at http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com - You'll see on > the front page and image linked to each article - I can do that just > from grabbing the first image associated with that page (which in many > cases isn't actually displayed in that page, it's just that it's been > attached). The same thing can be seen at > http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/comics - the page at /comics doesn't > need to know anything other than the fact that it has some child pages > and it can happily pull down the images associated with each of the > pages and render them. > > This could probably be achieved instead by choosing one image from the > list of images for rendering (in fact, I provide an option on the page > to select an image to be associated if there are multiple images), but > it's been much more straightforward for the (not so computer savvy) > editors to simply upload their article, upload an associated image at > the same time and be done with it. Especially when I've currently got > 826 attachments that would be living in that bucket to choose from - > giant buckets don't scale. > > Dan. > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
