Adding Photos to Easy Database
mitbrickman said 1 year, 1 month ago:
I need to add a column of employee photos in my Easy Database and the only instructions I can find on the GoDaddy site just says to ‘use Firefox to drag and drop .jpgs from your desktop to the Easy Database column’. Does this refer to the web browser Firefox – or some other application?
Baillee said 1 year, 1 month ago:
@mitbrickman
The article is referring to the web browser Mozilla Firefox. If you open that browser and go to your database, you can drag and drop the images from your desktop straight into your database.
Hope this helps!
Baillee
DS said 1 year, 1 month ago:
@mitbrickman,
Yeah it literally means to grab the file from your desktop or anywhere on your local drive and drag it into the browser (Chrome or Firefox) and drop it onto the cell where you want it stored.
This dragging and dropping is a new functionality built into HTML5. The next versions of Internet Explorer and Safari are scheduled to support it as well.
Let me know if that helps,
DS
rrudan said 1 year ago:
Am I reading this right? The only way to add database records with photos fields in Easy Database is to add each one manually by dragging and dropping with my browser?
No wonder I’m having a hard time getting my 495 record database to show the photo field. Manually dragging and dropping 495 photos is going to be impossible not to mention the high risk of error.
Any advice from anybody on a way to import via links? See http://www.nexsale.ca/sws-detention
DS said 1 year ago:
@rrudan,
Sorry I missed your post. I agree that dragging and dropping is not an efficient way to manage that many photos.
Try doing this. FTP your photos to your hosting server. Then create a spreadsheet containing the links to the photos in rows with the data associated to the photos. Next you need to import the spreadsheet (CSV is the best) into a table on the Data Tables page in Easy Database. Last, edit the photos column to set the Data Type to Photos and start making some widgets to embed on your site.
Let me know if that helps,
DS
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