Faster way to add images to articles
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Chuck Fisher
There are far too many clicks and steps to add an image to an article. Count the number of clicks it takes. I would like to see a streamlined way to add pictures to articles. Click add image > Open windows browser > select image > click ok. Drop the images in the images folder automatically.
As it stands now you click add image, then select from computer or from web, then it defaults to a folder that you can't add images to, so you select the images folder, then you have to click upload or use the drag and drop feature, then you click the image after it uploads and click insert. This is a whole lot of unnecessary steps.
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Thiru
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Thiru
Chuck Fisher we do have the drag & drop function supported by our editors which makes the process much more easier.
Mary Theis
We use DOC360 for software user guides and most of our images are screenshots. We name the image files with the screen name before uploading them to a specific folder the Drive. The tags and alt-text are added in Drive. We then insert the images into the articles.
We go through these extra steps because DOC360 will name images imported from a Word doc with the article name, not what the image is of. DOC360's image default workflow does not help us find screenshot that need updating due to UI changes.
Thiru
Mary Theis: We do display the Alt-Text option for the images that has been inserted in the Editor. And, while importing word docs and screenshots from the images takes the name of the word file name which is expected, but in our Drive you shall rename the file. For instance, if few docs has same file names, users need to distinguish the word doc again that would be additional overhead task. Hence associating the word doc name / article name while ot the files in it.
Mary Theis
Thiru: I am not sure what you mean by "in our Drive you shall rename the file." I do not see anyway to rename an image file in Drive. Can you clarify that?
Thomas Soulez
We have a few thousand articles to migrate with many images. I'd like to be able to upload images by API to Drive. A solution to easily then link lots of images to articles would be nice too.
Daniel Hawes
Just tacking this on here, unsure of this is worthy of another thread or not. But, when addressing this issue, there is another issue that involves pasting images to a page.
Basically, once you click paste (ctrl+V) it takes a while for the link / image information to display, which is expected especially with larger images. But the issue comes when you paste, and then keep filling the page with text, the image pastes based on where the caret is at that moment, not where it was when the image was pasted. And this interrupts workflows a lot (at least for me)
I've included a GIF to illustrate my point.
Thiru
Daniel Hawes: Apologies for the delayed response. This issue is resolved. Kindly check from your end at once.
Marsha Hippensteel
For my drafts, I've just been pasting (Ctrl-V) an image I've captured directly into an article. (Was going to investigate later the gain(s) to having the final image files in the Drive. Other than the single source concept of being able to use one image in multiple articles/locations, what are the functionality gains missed?) (Admin.: If this isn't the appropriate place for my comment, feel free to delete...)
Gerard U
To add, when we insert an image directly from an article, we cannot edit the meta data. This makes it harder to manage tags on the go since we cannot search file manager by file name.
I hope you guys work on the file manager search capability as well.
Thiru
Gerard U: Associating new tags while inserting file into the article will make the user interface bit more uneasy, for instance, in the editor opening up file picker and trying to create new tags and associate with the image is like 2-action event but the purpose is to add image in editor. However our file picker window has a provision to filter images based on the tags which would be helpful to filter required files to be inserted.
Marshal Ebinezar
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Thank you for your feedback, We have added to our pipeline and will pickup based on the priority.