I'm currently using the IMCE file browser for a soccer news website, and because we re-use images, I really love this module.
However, there is a huge problem with it that makes it nearly impossible to use over time.

Reason:
Images can have multiple things inside of it.
An example:

A picture of Kevin De Bruyne Celebrating his goal, with some teammates next to him.
This picture can be used both as a picture for news about Manchester City, or for news about Kevin De Bruyne himself.

So this gives us 2 possibilities with both problems:

1. We add the image, lets say we call it "KevinDeBruyne.png". If another author makes an article about Manchester City, maybe this image would have been perfect for him, but how will he know that this picture has something to do with Manchester City? If the person doesn't know that an image is uploaded like that, then he won't find it. And lets be honest, in a list of like 20.000 pictures, no author wants to search through all the images...

2. We add the image multiple times, with different names: "KevinDeBruyne.png", "Manchester City.png". This is what we do now but this gives some negative side effects: (A) Our image list only gets bigger and bigger, making people want to search through them even less. (B) It Adds a ton of extra pictures on our server that are there twice, 3times or even more, because of that, we are using a lot of space that we shouldn't be using... (C) The uploader may only think of the tags he needs, but others may think of other tags.

So what I'm looking for is an option to:

A. add taxonomy tags to images when uploading in IMCE
B. give the possibility to edit these tags
C. make it possible to search on these tags

Comments

Digital Competitive created an issue. See original summary.

TheoRichel’s picture

Of course tags are a much better way to describe photos then filenames. In our photo archive (5000+) photos keep the names the digital camera gives them. I am not going to explain tagging here, that is a standard Drupal thing. However it would be wonderful if IMCE would have an option to filter photos through tags. It indeed is no fun to locate that one picture in a list of 5000. So: subscribing.

sassafrass’s picture

Have you considered using the File Entity module? If you install the File Entity module, your files will be fieldable and you can add a taxonomy reference field to your file. See: https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity

thalles’s picture

I think this was soved with #3!
Thanks @all!

thalles’s picture

thalles’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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