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[sobrenome]

I use Wordpress and it is very simple to handle media.

I am testing IP.Content for free.

I tried to use the Media tool of IP.Content and I found it a little bit complicated.

I have uploaded an image using the tool, but I could not find it to insert into an test article.

I am not talking about the image we can upload as "featured image", like wordpress.

It's about images inside the article text.

I could only insert by URL, which is very frustrating.

Another thing that I found not as good as wordpress was the name that the uploaded "featured image" receives: a bunch of numbers. Wordpress keeps the name of the file, what is good for seo.

[Camoo]

A feature that really needs improvement in my Opinion!

[bfarber]

You have options.

1) You can add an attachments field to your article database (ACP -> Content -> Article Fields). Then you can upload attachments (e.g. images) to your article directly, just like you can with posts.

2) You can use the 'My media' button on the editor to insert images (either attachments or gallery images) that you have uploaded to the site. Note that you can only share content that YOU uploaded, not any content across the suite.

[sobrenome]

Ok, I tried both.

When I insert the image in an article (like method 1 or 2), it appears as a thumbnail.

How to change the thumbnail size for articles not affecting thumbnail size for the foruns?

How the IP.Content treats the featured image? How is the resizing? WP leave optins in size and crop. Does IP.Content offer any configuration?

[sobrenome]

Sorry, I could not use my media to insert images into an article, only the attachment option.

I upload the image using the MEDIA tool. Then I go to edit article and use MY MEDIA. The pop up gives the option to find media in: attachments, events, blog entries, gallery albuns, gallery images and files. The image I have just uploaded is not found in none of those.

[bfarber]

Ok, I tried both.

When I insert the image in an article (like method 1 or 2), it appears as a thumbnail.

How to change the thumbnail size for articles not affecting thumbnail size for the foruns?

How the IP.Content treats the featured image? How is the resizing? WP leave optins in size and crop. Does IP.Content offer any configuration?

I'm afraid the thumbnail dimensions utilize the same settings as the forums. This is done for consistency reasons.

The featured image is a separate single file upload field and the resizing is done on the fly (the actual image itself is not manipulated on disk). If you go to edit the Article View template (under IP.Content -> Templates -> Article Templates) you can edit this code to change the resize option to a different value, or not resize at all.

<img src='{$data['record']['article_image']}' {parse resize_image="$data['record']['article_image']" maxwidth="225"} alt='' style="float: right; padding: 10px" />

Sorry, I could not use my media to insert images into an article, only the attachment option.

I upload the image using the MEDIA tool. Then I go to edit article and use MY MEDIA. The pop up gives the option to find media in: attachments, events, blog entries, gallery albuns, gallery images and files. The image I have just uploaded is not found in none of those.

The My Media tool is not related to the ACP "Media" page available for IP.Content I'm afraid. The My Media tool is available across the IPS suite and allows you to reuse files you have uploaded throughout the suite. It does not, however, look for files the administrator has uploaded via the ACP media tool. That is something we can consider in a future version, however.

[sobrenome]

Ok, so If I want to add images to an article I will have to add the attachment field.

I inspected the "feature image" and I saw no resizing on the fly att all, it was just a css resize, which is bad in terms of page loading.

Is that possible, to solve all this image manipulation limitations, attach an image and instead of showing a thumbnail show the full image?

What about og:image for facebook share? IP.Content uses the featured image, attached image or the default?

[bfarber]

IP.Content uses the featured image when setting the meta tag you mentioned.

[istratebogdan]

I ran throught the same situation and i have found a sollution which it's very frustrating but it works.

First of all, you need to do this: http://community.inv...is-board-r22333
It's a 2 seconds editing of that default.php file: just remove the code stated in the link above.
Then you upload your attachements in the article and add them all to the article then (use the add button in the right of the uploaded attachement) and save your article.
Now go to your published article and right click on the thumbnails you added and select "open image in new window/tab". Do the same for all the images that you need.
Then go back and edit your article: delete the thumbnails and add instead the link of the images you just opened in a new window/tab and voila, you got your full size image in the article just where you want between the text.

Same goes for links to images that direct to image-sharing portals (like http://imageshack.us/ for instance), the images appear directly in full resolution.

This is very frustrating and you guys at Invision must solve this issue. It's a must have for all publishing suite/websites or whatever you can find on this world wide web. It would be a shame not to have that in invision suite.
And i m sure this is an easy quick fix for you. Anyway, you're doing a great job out there.
Cheers!

[Keithy Joe]

It really shouldn't be this difficult to add an image and position it easy within a box? The IP Content concept is a good one, but fundamentally as a very basic requirement in web site management - we as the editor need to be able to upload an image and position it precisely within a chosen CSS box. Now I am guessing that this can be done, but my word it is no obvious or easy feat. Any solutions? What I require is a box with an image elongated horizontally at the top and all the text below the image, very easy you would think - not so.

[GadgetX]

It's incredible that the article authoring interface for IP.Content isn't designed to make it easy to upload images?

 

I can't imagine this oversight has gone unnoticed. When will this be fixed??

[Mackeral_Fillet]

Is this going to be fixed to make it easier? Coming from Wordpress CMS on a vBulletin site it's incredibly mundane to have to have a poor workaround to insert images into articles.

[Barbabear]

I second all the comments here. At least provide a [fullsize_attachment:core:1] tag or something of the sort to link to the fullsize image in a WYSIWYG field.

This is really frustrating... coming from Drupal where I had similar issues for years I really don't feel like coping with that same basic problem in a paid software.

 

At the moment I broke thumbnails site-wide (by setting the maximum size to a large number: UGLY HACK), yet images still link to lightbox as if they were thumbnails.

 

I am really concerned at the number and age of the threads I came across looking for a fix to this...

[bfarber]

I second all the comments here. At least provide a [fullsize_attachment:core:1] tag or something of the sort to link to the fullsize image in a WYSIWYG field.

This is really frustrating... coming from Drupal where I had similar issues for years I really don't feel like coping with that same basic problem in a paid software.

 

At the moment I broke thumbnails site-wide (by setting the maximum size to a large number: UGLY HACK), yet images still link to lightbox as if they were thumbnails.

 

I am really concerned at the number and age of the threads I came across looking for a fix to this...

 

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