Apparently relief is in sight,.  There is a temporary plug in and it is available.  From what I understand it is under further development and will be made more publicly available in the near future,  Probably with bells and whistles.  Sounds like several of you have already tackled the problem and come up with various solutions.  But your solutions are all probably based on different versions.  

I really admire the versatility of the people on this list and the way they are willing to share important information.  

As far as related theme (below)  goes...  I am unable to respond as that is not my need at this point in time.  Anyone else?  recording terms with the images via a thesaurus?  with the conservation module?

Suzanne

On Nov 4, 2005, at 5:48 AM, Jonathan Thristan wrote:

Hello Suzanne/David
 
A developer could write a script to insert media records in batches. But, we'd also find it very useful if a plugin could be written to handle batch media record creation. A good candidate for a bit of automation.
 
On a related theme, are you recording terms with images, via the thesarus? This something that we're looking to do and will shortly begin a pilot with conservation, using our own trial set of terms. However, as far as I can work out, it's not possible to query for terms related to media records from within the Objects module. This limits the usefulness of recording terms - conservation would like to be able to do things like: search for 'paintings' in the 'Rousseau' exhibition with images that illustrate 'cracking' etc from within the Objects module. Or am I missing something?!
 
Jon
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Thanks David, 

I have been agonizing about this. 

I'm adding each page from many years of sketch books!   There has to be a simpler way.  


On Nov 3, 2005, at 11:49 AM, David Parsell wrote:

Suzanne,

I wish there was a quicker way. Even with the Image conversion program that moves and formats groups of image files to the server from your workstation, it still takes 23 clicks for each image.

My users are complaining loudly about this tedious method for linking images and thumbnails to TMS.

This is a good opportunity for someone to write a TMS plugin to automate this process.

David Parsell,  Yale University Art Gallery

At 09:51 AM 11/3/2005, Suzanne Quigley wrote:
Hi all,

I figured out it takes about 23 mouse clicks to add one image and its thumbnail to TMS.  I know I'm going to get carpel tunnel in my clicking finger if I can't figure out a better way.  I seem to recall that it is possible to upload images in some kind of a batch mode? Can anyone help me?  I'm taking about 100 - 1000 pix each day and need to get 'em in there quickly after I rename all the files. Not counting the file renaming - I am clicking 2,300 to 23,000 times a day - ouch.

Thank you all.

Suzanne
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