Filefield sources is an extension to filefield by which you can reference an external image or file.
This creates a tab in the filefield input and you choose you want remote url and add the url of remote file.

Node import do not have the option to choose this tab , so the import shows an error saying only files in the files folder are allowed. How can I make this option show up on filefield while importing.
If this involves a patch, can you please give me a starting point.
Thank you
Onesimpleman

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briand44’s picture

briand44 commented

I am looking for this functionality as well. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

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ch_masson commented

That would be great to have Node Import "see" the filefield source remote URL option instead of expecting an image already located in a file folder on the server.

One way I have been thinking about doing that would be to configure filefield so as to have the Remote URL coming from filefield sources as the default option in filefield and not the "upload" (local file) option.

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etibmw commented
Assigned: Unassigned » etibmw
Priority: Normal » Major

Hi all
I have been reading into his issue, what i need is an option to set he image as remote url or local file from the node import. the best way is to search the field, if http:// is found use filefield source and if not the file is on the server.
any ideas on how to do that?

thank
eti

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CMangrum commented

I could really use this feature as well. I have thousands of nodes to import but the spreadsheets I'm using all reference the images as URI's. I do not have any of the images locally on my server so the import always errors on Step 7 and fails on Step 8.

ETA: the URI that I pull down the images with is an SSL connection so it starts with https:// You'd probably have to account for both. I do not know if filefield sources allows other protocols, but since it uses cURL it might be possible for ftp, ftps, sftp, scp, etc. to be used as well. Not sure the best way to account for all of them except perhaps looking for :// in the string.

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plato1123 commented

Also see: http://drupal.org/node/932994