[campsite-dev] Proposal for article attachments feature (Micz please read)
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    Here's a suggestion regarding the article attachments feature:

    Administration interface
    - the editor will be able to add/delete attachments to/from an article
    - the administration interface will detect the mime type automatically; if it
    can't it will allow the editor to set it
    - the attachment will have the following metadata editable by the journalist:
    file name, mime type, short description
    - the attachment can be inserted into the article body fields

    Template engine
    The web designer will be able to:
    - list article attachments
    - print attachment file name, mime type, description, URL

    We would appreciate your feedback on this: let us know if you have some other
    suggestions. We will not implement a complex thing though, this is supposed to
    be a temporary solution until the replacement of the C++ template engine. This
    means there will be not a common library of attachments, no searching and no
    complex medatada for multimedia files.

    Regards,
    The development team


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    Hi Mugur

    That looks like a good idea. I have three comments:

    1. Will it be possible to use conditional sections in order to control
    the appearence of the download link, "content-disposition", etc,
    especially for PDFs and compressed files etc. application/pdf > download.

    2. It's useful to be able to output the file size. Ideally the size
    would be output in an intelligent format, eg 50k, 15M, 1.5G: file size humanreadable>

    3. How would files be removed? By editing the articles in question, or
    via a centralised location in the admin system? I can imagine that a
    website which publishes a lot of audio content, for example, would want
    to be able to see quickly how much storage space they had available, and
    to be able to remove old files without destroying the articles which
    refer to them: This file has been removed

    Cheers

    JP

    Mugur Rus wrote:

    >Here's a suggestion regarding the article attachments feature:
    >
    >Administration interface
    >- the editor will be able to add/delete attachments to/from an article
    >- the administration interface will detect the mime type automatically; if it
    >can't it will allow the editor to set it
    >- the attachment will have the following metadata editable by the journalist:
    >file name, mime type, short description
    >- the attachment can be inserted into the article body fields
    >
    >Template engine
    >The web designer will be able to:
    >- list article attachments
    >- print attachment file name, mime type, description, URL
    >
    >We would appreciate your feedback on this: let us know if you have some other
    >suggestions. We will not implement a complex thing though, this is supposed to
    >be a temporary solution until the replacement of the C++ template engine. This
    >means there will be not a common library of attachments, no searching and no
    >complex medatada for multimedia files.
    >
    >Regards,
    >The development team
    >
    >
    >__________________________________________________
    >Do You Yahoo!?
    >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
    >http://mail.yahoo.com
    >
    >
    >

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