Thread

Hi, I’m new to EE and trying to learn the basics. Some questions about the File Manager:

1. I upload a photo and put “cat, kitten” in the description. When I do a search for “kitten”, it finds the photo. But when I do a search for “cat”, I get nothing. Any ideas what’s going on?

2. The file metadata are: file title, file name, description, credit, and location. What if I wanted to add custom fields? How do I do that?

3. In the template files, how do I access a particular manipulation (I call this “rendition”) of an image? Say I define a rendition “thumbnail” to be 100x100. How do I access that particular rendition in a template?

4. Is there a way to randomize the file names of the files being uploaded?

5. After uploading an image and testing it against PageSpeed, it turns out that the image can still be optimized via losslessly compressing it. How can this problem be addressed?

Hi 99developer,

1. I upload a photo and put “cat, kitten” in the description. When I do a search for “kitten”, it finds the photo. But when I do a search for “cat”, I get nothing. Any ideas what’s going on?

I’m not sure - but I will do some tests and get you an answer on this.

2. The file metadata are: file title, file name, description, credit, and location. What if I wanted to add custom fields? How do I do that?

You can’t add custom fields to the File Manager at this time.

3. In the template files, how do I access a particular manipulation (I call this “rendition”) of an image? Say I define a rendition “thumbnail” to be 100x100. How do I access that particular rendition in a template?

That is done with {field-name:rendition-name}.

4. Is there a way to randomize the file names of the files being uploaded?

That’s not available in ExpressionEngine, would you like to make a Feature Request?

5. After uploading an image and testing it against PageSpeed, it turns out that the image can still be optimized via losslessly compressing it. How can this problem be addressed?

Indeed, CE Image can do this with it’s lossless compression.

You should check out Channel Images from DevDemon. It offers a lot of the feature you are looking for.

~

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the clarifications.

Any updates on the search issue (#1)?

Also, for #4, isn’t it considered a security concern that the uploaded images’ (or at least the renditions’) file names are not being randomized? Photobucket’s “private” images were easily accessed due to this non-randomizing of file names (see: http://gawker.com/5932702/ladies-8000-creeps-on-reddit-are-sharing-the-nude-photos-you-posted-to-photobucket).

Thanks,
KIP

Hi Kip,

I’ve had the chance to run some tests. It does look as though title is the only field being searched in the File Manager.

I filed this bug report so we can get it looked into.

Cheers,