gmclelland

So it sounds like you are wanting the ability to select a file from an predefined directory?  Then the user can select the file using some kind of file browser where you can drill down to select the file you want?

It would be cool if someone made another module that can either extend the core imagefield or create a new fieldtype to allow for different sources to be added via additional modules?

I've used something like this before in Drupal with the https://www.drupal.org/project/filefield_sources module.  You can see all the modules that integrate with it at https://www.drupal.org/search/site/filefield sources.

In the screenshot below, you can see the different toggle links/tabs that are added: Upload, File Browser, Reference existing, Remote URL.  Each additional module can add more toggle links to change the input that is used.  Sources are configured per field in the field settings.

If we had a module like that, then we could create an another integrated module that adds a "File browser" source link/tab that uses an input similar to the "Page List Select Multiple" input field type from the core Page Reference module, but instead of pages show/select files and folders?

Maybe the input could look something like this??  Taken from PageListImage module at 

There is also already a module to select files, but maybe it could be modified to add a new inputfield type similar to image above?

Or maybe you could have a module like https://www.drupal.org/project/imce and  https://www.drupal.org/project/imce_filefield that just adds a "Open File Browser" link to the image field that opens IMCE or similar to browse a file system?  There is also https://www.drupal.org/project/visual_select_file that has a slightly different UI.

I know this isn't a solution, but these are all rough ideas of me thinking out loud in case any one wants to run with it?

I haven't tried it yet, but https://github.com/mr-fan/AutoImagePages might help?

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On 1/20/2018 at 10:59 AM, modifiedcontent said:

It would be super convenient if you could just upload images to a folder/directory in the templates folder or root, without any processing, and be able to access that as a source option in the image field. Any way to make that happen?

I know this is an older post, but you should be able to do some of this now with this module:

4 hours ago, d'Hinnisdaël said:

I do have an at-a-glance/counter panel on the roadmap, but I'm not sure how to exactly build that since ProcessWire — as opposed to Wordpress — doesn't have any pre-configured content types, so I would have to make it a bit more configurable.

Couldn't you loop over all templates(excluding system templates) and use the template's name along with a count?

For example:

• Basic Page (55)
• Calendar Postings (77)
• Job Postings (88)
• community-event (55)  <- this one doesn't have a friendly template name, the others above do
• Total Pages (400)

It would probably be helpful to show file information as well.  Like:

• Documents (1,000)
• Images (2,000)
• Audio (30)
• Videos (40)
• Total Files (3,000)

The number of users would be helpful per role

• Editors (20)
• Contributors (25)
• Vendors (22)
• System Admins (2)
• Total Users (60)

All of that would probably need to be cached so isn't too taxing on the server.  Maybe only displayed to admins as well?  I thought I remembered a module that already provides similar counts?  I can't remember the name. Maybe I'll remember it later?

Thanks Robin, just tested and it does work. Man, you're fast!

Haven't tried out the module **yet**, but I love the look of these dashboards.

One panel that could be useful is a content overview panel like in Wordpress.  It would show the amount of pages for each type of page with a link to the built in pages lister that shows all pages filter for that page type.

Another feature that might be useful would be the ability to create multiple dashboard pages, or tabs within dashboards like what is shown in the Drupal Workbench module?  This could be a dashboard for the user?

Maybe you could have a site dashboard(displayed when clicking on the main logo or the Processwire logo or visiting the main processwire admin page at /processwire) and a user dashboard(displayed when a user first logs into the Processwire Admin)?

Here is what a "My dashboard"(from drupal.org) for users could look like

If we had the ability to create multiple dashboard pages then while creating/editing each dashboard page, you can choose which roles are allowed to view the page. If you do not choose any roles, then only admins can view the dashboard page.  For obvious reasons, anonymous users will not be able to save pages or add custom items.

All of this might be too complex, but I thought would just get these thoughts out of my head in case anybody liked them.

Here is another dashboard I found just to give others some ideas of what could probably be created with this module.

Anyways, thanks for making this module.  Look forward to trying it soon.

Hi @Robin S, just wanted to let you know that I tried out the latest version, but it didn't seem to work with the file/image files with no extension.

Here are some examples that didn't work for me:

Ex. pdf file with no extension:

https://www.charleston-sc.gov/DocumentCenter/View/18787/Certificate-of-Construction-Completion-RES-Checklist?bidId=

Ex. image file with no extension:

https://www.charleston-sc.gov/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=23023

After saving the page with those urls, it shows the following error message:

AddImageUrls: The remote file https://www.charleston-sc.gov/DocumentCenter/View/18787/Certificate-of-Construction-Completion-RES-Checklist?bidId= has no file extension and its MIME type does not correspond with a valid file extension for field "page_files".

The file field is configured to allow pdf files and the image field is configured to allow png, jpg, jpeg, gif.

Do these urls work for you?

Thanks for adding this to modules directory and combining both module's functionality. ?

Not sure if this is possible, but sometimes you have sites that have file urls or image urls with no extensions.  Example: mywebsite.com/this-is-a-pdf-link or mywebsite.com/this-is-an-image

Urls like that won't work currently with this module.  I'm not sure if there is a way to add a check if the url doesn't have an extension, then check the mime type against the allowed extensions?

Maybe somehow comparing the two by using $config->fileContentTypes and $ctype = mime_content_type($file->filename); ?

Yes, please.  Maybe this would help?

https://github.com/dadish/pw-skyscrapers-profile

Haven't used it yet, but I think I read that Mystique is also a good module for this kind of stuff.  

I have also used SettingsFactory and can say that it works great.

I think this might help you https://processwire.com/api/ref/functions/#pwapi-methods-Functions-API

Hi LAPS, I’m not sure I follow? The article you linked says that it already does this.  You elaborate a little more?

@gebeer - FYI... I modified Robin's AddImageUrls module and adapted it to work with file fields now.  It's called the AddFileUrls module.

@matjazp I'm not sure I fully understand what you want, but maybe you could try the new "AddFileUrls" module and then use some kind of hook to modify and pre-fill the default value of the url in the file field?

Hey @Robin S, I thought this module was handy so I modified the AddImageUrls module and adapted it to work for file fields.

I attached the new "AddFileUrls" module.  Feel free to upload it to your github or publish these to the module directory.

It seems to work well in my testing.

Hope that helps

AddFileUrls.zip

Thanks @matjazp!  It makes sense now.  That's a Windows only thing.  Macs don't have that.

On 12/30/2019 at 6:11 AM, horst said:

For me, uploading a file/image from URL works by simply copy paste the URL into the upload inputtextfield. The browser / OS does all necessary then.

@horst - what do you mean by this?  I don't see anywhere to input any text in a file or image field.

The two “orange” pages have the same page title, but it probably gives them different page names.  Look on the settings tab of each page.

Great looking site Macrura!  Can you show a screenshot of your PageTable setup?  Are you still using the Micro Context thingy that you wrote about in the past, or have you found a better way?

..Love what you are doing with this module.  Thanks for making it.

The icon's line weight look too thin in my humble opinion.  What about using an icon from the included font-awesome library.  You can browse the icons included by editing a template and then go to "Advanced" tab.  Then scroll down to the Icon inputfield and click "Show all icons."  That might give you some ideas?

For an upload icon, maybe fa-upload?

For an edit icon, maybe fa-pencil?

7 hours ago, gebeer said:

I remember having read sth about it but can't recall where it was.

Maybe this? https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.145/  See the Inputfield Javascript API

I think I had this problem in the past and I had to do the following in my template:

{% if page.editable() %}
        <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ config.urls.templates }}scripts/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>
      {% else %}
        <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ config.urls.templates }}scripts/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
{% endif %}

This is written in Twig, but basically it shows how to check if the page is editable then use this version of jquery, else use a different version of jquery.

You might want to check your web browser's console to see if there are any errors on the page.

Hope that helps

I believe you can do this with http://modules.processwire.com/modules/page-image-manipulator/

Check the docs at 

Could you replacing the line with this:

$this->myvar = $this->pages->get(2)->name; // problematic for some reason

I have a note in my Processwire notes that say's

--Extend WireData to access API variables using $this->page instead of calling wire() function every time. It also lets us get module settings directly using $this->someSetting.

Expand "Filters" on Setup > Templates and you will see it.

If a url segment for year exist, you might have to whitelist the year?  https://processwire.com/api/ref/wire-input/whitelist/