Acidfree taxonomy

Indeed limit the dropdown could be very helpfull. Have you finally found a solution ?

5.x is no longer supported, but I'm going to open this as a feature request for 6.x - I like the idea.

First, 6.x behavior does not (or should not) include all albums, regardless. Instead, it only lists albums you have the right to upload to. For admins, this could mean a very big list....

I'll have to think about this.

Well, we're also moving towards the quick-links model for adding content. If we do that, there's no need to show the album list at all for most "add" operations. You'd only show it in the case where someone directly creates an image or video.

Ringomassa has been working on code to support creating items that could be in an acidfree album, but don't have to be. What if we configured something like this:

1. Make displaying the album selector when adding items a configurable setting.
2. If the item is being added via the quick links, the album defaults to the current album.
3. If the item is being added via "Create Content", the default album is either the user's per-user album or the default album.

This still lacks two things: How do we handle the case where the user doesn't want the item to be in any acidfree album? How do we handle the case where there is no default album, or the user doesn't have "update" access to that album?

To reduce clutter it would probably be a good thing to make it possible to disable the album selector (taxonomy) when using the quicklinks. This can be done easily by checking for the presence of an acidfree album as parent (code posted previously).
For handling the case where a user doesn't want to add an image to an album, see http://drupal.org/node/1045822. All that is left to do there is altering the update in acidfree.install . I'm not really sure how to do this cleanly.
As we are moving to the quicklinks system i think it would be best to not select any album at all when using "Create Content" as the image content type can be used for many other functions besides an acidfree gallery.

Attached a patch to handle this. Following code should be added to acidfree.install to change functionality with an update.

function acidfree_update_6002() {
  $ret = array();
  if ($vid = variable_get('acidfree_vocab_id', 0)) {
    db_query ("UPDATE {vocabulary} SET required='0' WHERE vid='$vid'");
  }
  return $ret;
}

If this change is committed, do we also want to do the same for using a quicklink to create an album?

And the patch...

Found an error in the patch. It was not putting the image in any album. So here's a new one.

Ringo, your patch works great, but there's already an acidfree_image_form_alter() function. I think it would be better to add your change there, because eventually we will have to make similar changes to the video module as well. (modified patch attached.)

Agreed. Each of the supported types should do this.

I've applied Ringo's patch, plus I've added the code to do the same for albums. We will eventually need to do the same thing for the video module, the change should be similar, but I'm not set up to test that right now.