Forum OpenACS Development: Re: xoWiki and images

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15: Re: xoWiki and images (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/14/06 01:54 PM
The best option and simplest to implement, is to allow upload of an image and to associate the image directly to the object being edited.

The way I have been doing this lately is to add the image to the content repository and then set the parent_id of the cr_item for the image to the object being edited.

This is much simpler than trying to guess which file storage instance to use. I guess the only issue would be defining a URL for this type of image. We could use the /o/ object redirector for this.

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16: Re: Re: xoWiki and images (response to 15)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 07/14/06 05:29 PM
i was considering something like this for xowiki itself, to allow e.g. wikipdeia style names withing the wiki folders (like image:dave.png). From the datamodel is see that parent_ids of item_ids are just acs_objects, therefore, also a forum message should be fine. in some cases it is useful to associate an image (file) with an object, in some cases it is useful to associate it with a folder (in the xowiki case: one might like to use the image in multiple pages, or not to erase it, when the page containing it is removed)... the file selector will only be used when a folder is specified, otherwise the uploaded content could be directly associated with the object_id.... this is certainly interesting to think about this in more detail.