Hey Richard,

I know of at least 2 packages:

- thUtilities, which has support for uploading pics to media sectio using webservices.
- umbracoDashboard, which includes a control for zip uploading pics.

Both packages can be found on Codeplex's umbraco ext project.

Be aware, don't really know about their v4 compatibility. You might need to tweak the code a (little) bit.

I know that saelfaer (Sander Houttekier) had some similar request. You could get in contact to verify how he's doing that stuff.

Hope that helps.

Doei :)

/Dirk

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I actually have at copy of that package (but not here). It seems that you still have to open a file picker for every single file though. It will just upload them simultaneously.

Ping me on msn mortenbock (at) hotmail.com and I'll dig it up.

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Hi

The swf based MultipleFileUpload package is finally done. Sorry for the wait. I guess the ambitions got a little higher than first expected :)

The package enables you to upload multiple files in one go.



A new tab called “Upload” will be added to the native Folder media type. The tab contains a Flash based control which enables the user to select multiple files from multiple sources before uploading. The files will be placed as child nodes under the selected folder.

Each file will be handled according to it’s extension. By default the MultipleFileUpload package has to different behaviours. All image files (jpeg, jpg, gif, bmp, png, tiff, tif) will be created as image media types, whereas all other files will be created as file media types.

It’s possible to customize how individual files will be treated and the user control that is displayed inside Umbraco. Please refer to the “Extending the package“ section in the documentation.

Warning: If you wish to uninstall the package be sure to follow the instructions in the documentation and displayed on the last page of the installer, otherwise you could end up invalidating all folders in the media section.

The package is awaiting approval for the repository.
Until then you can download the complete source, flex project and package here and a the standalone package here.

EDIT: links to version 1.1
Bug fix (applies to v4 beta): uploaded elements won't show up when used in XSLT before a manual save has been performed.

Hope you'll find this package usable.
Keller

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nörd

Great ! thanks for taking the time to package this up ! good stuff !

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@Keller: I just says WOW!

This is truly awesome, this is the first package that I've seen install the docs with the User Controls very good, should be included in some package best practice! ; )

Thanks for your hard work and for sharing it with the community!

Edit: I just tried to upload one file of 80 MB and one of 1.02 GB in Firefox 3/XP and I recieved an error at 100% uploaded for file 2, the first one worked just fine.

The Error: "There has been an I/O Error: Error #2038"
ASP.Net forum post about this: http://forums.asp.net/p/1182840/2024599.aspx#2024599

SWFUpload info on the Flash Player Plugin (not the ActiveX version) cookie bug:
http://swfupload.org/forum/generaldiscussion/383

BTW, do you think that it's possible to somehow block this datatype from beeing used in doc types? It work in a doc type as well but no images is visible in the GUI what I can see...

// ; ) Kalle

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Thanks for the positive response!

@neehouse: You are probably right! I thought about this, but I figured it's a general ASP.NET limitation so people would know, but the bit about cryptic error messages convinced me otherwise. I'll but it in the documentation later.

@kalpa: I didn't think about that scenario and I haven't tested it's behaviour in a doctype, but I'm pretty sure that it doesn't work, since the code is creating media nodes. This just shows that even though you test your code, you are almost certainly not gonna test every aspect because you are thinking in the context where the code is supposed to work. As far as I know theres no way to put restrictions on a datatype, correct me if I'm wrong.

Keller

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nörd

You could probably hack it by writing a bit of code in the datatype that checks for the Doctype/Mediatype of the current content element, and simply renders an errormessage if it is not a "Folder" type.

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Great to see this released, I have also been waiting in anticipation since CG08, I have a bunch of files to upload for a client ( who is to lazy to do it themselves ;-) ) and this will save me lots of time :) Thanks to you all for releasing it :)

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Chris Houston - Umbraco Developer for over 2 years.
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This is a really cool package! Just installed it and everything works great. You guys did also a great job on writing some good documentation.

It would be nice to have this package integrated in upcoming versions of Umbraco.

Great, i am going to experiment around with this package...

it looks very nice, good work to everyone involved. nice one Keller


euh i of course am to late to see this :)
i indeed was working with mass uploading media as well but my situation was slightly different
i just wanted to get my files on the server and create a content node per file
so i used toehler's massMediaUpload tool in the utilities for umbraco project.
and then wrote a custom control that picked those images up and created a content node for each of them.
with the data that goes with them like a title, tags, description...

so the only similar here is that i had to upload all pics, and i used another tool for it :)
but i think if you are working towards customers, that a nice visualisation can't hurt
you cannot request an 3rd party tool installed on customer's pc

so this option that keller made is brilliant towards customers for sure...

again, nice work man
Sander

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Sander Houttekier, Umbraco Level 2 Certified