I have looked around the Internet for a solution for this but it doesn't seem to have come up often in discussions here.
I'm working with the equivalent of multiple online textbooks, with a lot of animations, many but not all of which have been converted from Flash. They've been converted either via the swiffy converter or by hand in Edge Animate or Storyline 2.
All three of these conversion methods generate animations composed of dozens of files and folders. From what I can tell, there's basically no way to upload a folder full of files/subfolders at this point.
I can do this myself (I'm using UmbracoFileSystemProviders.Azure but I can put a folder in the blob no problem), and unfortunately I'll have to have my editors figure this out and go through this extra step, but I'm wondering the following:
1) Is there really no way to upload a folder, other than long-defunct third-party extensions, or am I missing something?
2) Is there a way to rig a media type that just points to a folder?
3) I've created a file type that will point to the main .html file, but sometimes this file should be in a subfolder and sometimes not, depending on which method of conversion the animation used. So it creates /media/1056/absorbents.html, and I can go in and add the animation in the 1056 folder, but the html file should actually point to a subfolder in this case. Is there a way to customize the folder structure in the media section for this particular media type, like add a subfolder?
4) I guess I could rig it with a media type that is just a text string with the link to the animation in the Azure blob storage, or maybe blow my editors' minds, avoid using the media section for this altogether, and have them put the links in by hand in an RTE, but I'm not even sure what the link would look like without UmbracoFileSystemProviders.Azure doing it's thing and routing it through Umbraco. If this is the best route (I hope it isn't), how would I handle it?
Keep in mind I am new to Umbraco but I'm not afraid to extend it in C# if that's the best route to take. Unfortunately I've been working with VB.NET webforms for years and I'm relatively new to pretty much every aspect of this other than .net and some C# (I'm going with razor over webforms).
HTML5 Animations as Media
I have looked around the Internet for a solution for this but it doesn't seem to have come up often in discussions here.
I'm working with the equivalent of multiple online textbooks, with a lot of animations, many but not all of which have been converted from Flash. They've been converted either via the swiffy converter or by hand in Edge Animate or Storyline 2.
All three of these conversion methods generate animations composed of dozens of files and folders. From what I can tell, there's basically no way to upload a folder full of files/subfolders at this point.
I can do this myself (I'm using UmbracoFileSystemProviders.Azure but I can put a folder in the blob no problem), and unfortunately I'll have to have my editors figure this out and go through this extra step, but I'm wondering the following:
1) Is there really no way to upload a folder, other than long-defunct third-party extensions, or am I missing something?
2) Is there a way to rig a media type that just points to a folder?
3) I've created a file type that will point to the main .html file, but sometimes this file should be in a subfolder and sometimes not, depending on which method of conversion the animation used. So it creates /media/1056/absorbents.html, and I can go in and add the animation in the 1056 folder, but the html file should actually point to a subfolder in this case. Is there a way to customize the folder structure in the media section for this particular media type, like add a subfolder?
4) I guess I could rig it with a media type that is just a text string with the link to the animation in the Azure blob storage, or maybe blow my editors' minds, avoid using the media section for this altogether, and have them put the links in by hand in an RTE, but I'm not even sure what the link would look like without UmbracoFileSystemProviders.Azure doing it's thing and routing it through Umbraco. If this is the best route (I hope it isn't), how would I handle it?
Keep in mind I am new to Umbraco but I'm not afraid to extend it in C# if that's the best route to take. Unfortunately I've been working with VB.NET webforms for years and I'm relatively new to pretty much every aspect of this other than .net and some C# (I'm going with razor over webforms).
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