I was wondering how to use the Umbraco media library for a user upload function. I've got a user page where the user can create a page node.. This page node, needs to be extended with some user uploads, like pictures..
Would you recommend this setup for getting user submitted content or should I use another folder and my custom library instead? This is NOT from the umbraco administration, but the client page, at frontend.
Hopefully some of you, have been working for such a solution :-)
I would be tempted to create a new user that only has access to that particular page, then allow them to create subnodes from that page, each containing a media item, using the standard umbraco admin.
However that may not suit your site as you may have a huge number of potential uploaders, so the alternative I'd look into would be building a new .Net control that you can slap onto the relevant template as a macro.
The control could then contain a file upload field and would ftp the files into the media library using the umbraco api. You could create a new folder for generic uploads in the media library and point it to that.
You could also use Doc2Form for both creating the node and uploading images (via an image upload data type on the document used to create a Doc2Form form)
How to use Media library for user upload
Hello..
I was wondering how to use the Umbraco media library for a user upload function. I've got a user page where the user can create a page node.. This page node, needs to be extended with some user uploads, like pictures..
Would you recommend this setup for getting user submitted content or should I use another folder and my custom library instead? This is NOT from the umbraco administration, but the client page, at frontend.
Hopefully some of you, have been working for such a solution :-)
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I would be tempted to create a new user that only has access to that particular page, then allow them to create subnodes from that page, each containing a media item, using the standard umbraco admin.
However that may not suit your site as you may have a huge number of potential uploaders, so the alternative I'd look into would be building a new .Net control that you can slap onto the relevant template as a macro.
The control could then contain a file upload field and would ftp the files into the media library using the umbraco api. You could create a new folder for generic uploads in the media library and point it to that.
I've not done this myself, but a starting point might be here - http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst2317_File-repository.aspx
Thanks for the link Shaun.
I think I just create my own file depot for my node images, because i won't let my users into my umbraco administration for a simple upload.
Anyway, your answer will get the proved status :-)
You could also use Doc2Form for both creating the node and uploading images (via an image upload data type on the document used to create a Doc2Form form)
Dan
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