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a CMS than can only upload 1 file at a time?!

for a CMS that costs some bucks to have, I feel that this is a basic need that one shouldn’t have to shell out another $65 for to get a plugin that does it ( http://www.devdemon.com/channel_images/ ). And that doesn’t even allow any file type, only images.

What project wouldn’t need multi file upload support? I’m starting to get the feeling that I just purchased a money pit.

Hi jeffrey james,

I’m sorry you’re frustrated with the basic file field type that is included with ExpressionEngine.

Indeed, if you have a need to upload more than one file at a time, it can be a bit cumbersome. However, if you have a large number of files to upload, there is a means to make that less painful.

Upload those files via FTP to anyone of your established Upload Destinations, then sync that destination in the File Manager. After that, those file become available for placement in your channel entries.

If there is anything else I can do to help, just let me know.

Cheers,

Hi jeffrey james,

I’m sorry you’re frustrated with the basic file field type that is included with ExpressionEngine.

Indeed, if you have a need to upload more than one file at a time, it can be a bit cumbersome. However, if you have a large number of files to upload, there is a means to make that less painful.

Upload those files via FTP to anyone of your established Upload Destinations, then sync that destination in the File Manager. After that, those file become available for placement in your channel entries.

If there is anything else I can do to help, just let me know.

Cheers,

this would be a good solution if I didn’t have 100 or so users that are going to be wanting to upload things, and cannot be allowed FTP access. does EE sync with FTP uploads automatically or do you have to tell it to do so?

Hi jeffrey james,

You will need to sync the directories manually, or you could create a cron job or find some other way to automate the task.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

...have 100 or so users that are going to be wanting to upload things

Will they be uploading one or more than one item (e.g. image) per entry?

Could you explain little about how you imagine the workflow or content addition might work?

Hey Matt!

Thanks for chiming in!

What do you think Jeffery?

Cheers,

There are several addons that handle multiple file uploads but it probably depends what your required use is when selecting which would work best. Can you explain a little more what you are trying to do.

Hey guys,

I love how the community has jumped on board here! Great work.

I am going to move this over to Community Help Forum.

Have a great week.

Cheers,

whoops! I didn’t get notified about any responses after my last comment. thanks for all the replies!

use case:

it is for an artist co-op where users can submit projects they’ve done. I will need them to be able to upload more than one file at a time. I also need a video field where they can optionally link a youtube/vimeo/etc video and have it generate a thumbnail and link to a lightbox-ed embed of the video. Basically any media type that an artist might need, I need to support. I would also need it to populate a page that has their other work on it.  The page with their other work would be a thumbnail photo of themselves, a short bio, and then a bunch of thumbnails of art projects they’ve worked on.

I would highly recommend Brandon Kelly’s Matrix for this application. It allows you to set up a field that the article editor can keep adding rows to. Assuming you are probably going to want something like ‘title’ or a description or artist statement associated with each image this addon really excels at that as you basically set up the columns (ie file, title, description) and then the article editor can add as many or little rows as needed. Out of the box it requires you to do each file field upload on its own but he does make a multi-upload extension to go with it that you select multiple files and it auto populates the rows of the matrix.

http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/matrix-multi-upload

For the video aspect DevDemon makes the excellent channel videos which allows you to search youtube or vimeo for keywords or just enter the url of the video. Makes it super simple for the article editor and then the template tags allow you to select if you want the thumbnail or the embed etc.

http://www.devdemon.com/channel_videos/

Combine that with PrettyPhoto if you want a dead simple to use light box overlay type effect to use with the videos and your styling.

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/

I would highly recommend Brandon Kelly’s Matrix for this application.
http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix

+1 brilliant suggestion from Phil! I use Matrix for exactly this sort of site/client. It’s logical and easy for the client to follow.

For the video aspect DevDemon makes the excellent channel videos
http://www.devdemon.com/channel_videos/

+1, Channel Videos makes life super easy

Combine that with PrettyPhoto if you want a dead simple to use light box overlay type effect to use with the videos and your styling.

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/

Never used it, but I want to now (thanks for the tip Phil). I’ve been using ColorBox up to now, might be worth a look too.

Good luck Jeffrey and keep the questions coming. I’m sure you’ve noticed how much easier it is to get an answer when you describe a working example 😉

Matt

I would highly recommend Brandon Kelly’s Matrix for this application.
http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix

+1 brilliant suggestion from Phil! I use Matrix for exactly this sort of site/client. It’s logical and easy for the client to follow.

For the video aspect DevDemon makes the excellent channel videos
http://www.devdemon.com/channel_videos/

+1, Channel Videos makes life super easy

Combine that with PrettyPhoto if you want a dead simple to use light box overlay type effect to use with the videos and your styling.

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/

Never used it, but I want to now (thanks for the tip Phil). I’ve been using ColorBox up to now, might be worth a look too.

Good luck Jeffrey and keep the questions coming. I’m sure you’ve noticed how much easier it is to get an answer when you describe a working example 😉

Matt

yes, I will be a lot more thorough from this day forward! thanks for the all the help everyone.

for lightbox (and other neat stuff) I always go with Nick Stakenburg’s stuff:
http://projects.nickstakenburg.com/lightview
best lightbox out there imHo. 

The tooltip library he’s got is also quite amazing:
http://projects.nickstakenburg.com/tipped

Thanks for the Lightbox and Tooltip links Jeffrey!

HI,

and Tooltip links Jeffrey!