Takver's piece on publishing images
Posted October 19th, 2007 by Anonymous
Thanks for posting this - it clarifies issues I had come up against. Would it perhaps be worth making it explicit somewhere in the 'publish content' page that it is necesary to create and account and be logged in with an id if you want to link images to a story - it may seem obvious if you know it already, but I didn't... After all, it is easy just to post a story without being logged in.
Small point - the link from'publish content' to 'editorial guidelines' seems to be broken ...
-pc
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Re: Takver's piece on publishing images
You don't have to be logged in to have images in your story.
Re: Takver's piece on publishing images
ok- so what does this mean - [quote]
Add an image to a Story
[end quote]
?
I have tried a couple of times to follow the instructions on the 'publish content' page, specifically where it says [quote]
Text article. If you have an image to go with your story, upload it
camera icon in the story editor.
using the image link below first, then insert it into your story using
the
[end quote]
What has happened is that uploading an image and then clicking on the icon simply goes back to the 'upload an image' form, and you end up with two separate postings on the 'latest content', which it seems someone then has to go in and clear up?
btw - Takver's posting aks for comments, but there is no 'add new comment' form at the end, hence my use of this forum.
-pc
Re: Takver's piece on publishing images
Well, interesting that you only get an upload form. When i do it as an anonymous user I am presented with thumbnails of 6 or so of the most recent image uploads. I can then click on one of the thumbnails to be taken to a form to set some properties, then I can click the insert button and it inserts it into my story.
This is the right forum for this stuff. Takver's story is a page content type which don't have comments enabled.
Image thing doesn't work most of the time
I get the same problem as someone else here, whether logged in or anonymous, I click on INSERT and nothing gets inserted except the name of the image. Even if I then publish, there is no image, so it's not just an illusion. Bloody thing doesn't work.
Re: Takver's piece on publishing images
Firstly, If you add your images at the time of adding the story, you don't need to be logged in.
If, however, you first post a story and then want to add images
to that story later, you need to be using the same login for both
(unless your a site admin). Posting a story under an account login lets
you publish the story, then come back to edit and modify it, add
images, correct mistakes after the story has been published.
I have also had the same problem on occasions - "click on INSERT and
nothing gets inserted except the name of the image." The way I resolved
those problems was to go into the HTML dialog box and copy the URL of the image and insert the tag in the html:
<img src="http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/files/sydimc/images/Screenshot-Add-image.png"
align="right" height="150" width="200" />
You
can play around with the align, width and height tags or leave them off
altogether, although using 'align="left"' or 'align="right"' makes for
nicer formatting in my opinion.
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