1 Topic by burnum

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Topic: order sort by date

We are uploading anywhere between 10-20 images to one particular directory each day.  99% of the time, the next step will be to select the uploaded image in MCImageManager to use in TinyMCE.  But the directories are sorted alphabetically. 

It would be great if there could be a configuration setting to sort by creation date by default.
Even better would be including an option in the web interface to change this sort order.

Alternatively, if from the upload screen you could view the last uploaded image, that would work as well.

If this can't be done, I need a way of prepending the datestamp to images upon uploading.  Currently users are manually changing the local filenames to YYYYMMDDfilename.ext, but simply providing that variable in the upload.format config would be best.

Thanks,
Stephen

Last edited by burnum (2009-12-15 22:27:32)

2 Reply by Afraithe

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Re: order sort by date

Good feedback, I guess the simplest thing we can do is fix upload.format so that it supports current datetime, could be a minor update, but other things require a bit more thinking and coding.

One thing though, you could possibly do your own little plugin that hooks into the upload events and rename files to datetime + filname.ext.

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3 Reply by smartpill

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Re: order sort by date

I'd like to request this also. Same reasons. Clients upload many images and then have to try to dig around to find all their images. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

4 Reply by mreeves

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Re: order sort by date

+1 for this feature. sorting chronologically makes so much more sense from a workflow perspective.

5 Reply by spocke

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Re: order sort by date

Yes, sorting by date and other sorting will be a focus for the upcoming major release also image tagging and searching it will be awesome. We are currently in the planing process of these plugins.

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6 Reply by burnum

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Re: order sort by date

I bought the upgrade that has the "Uploaded" plugin.  What do I have to do to be able to see my latest uploaded files.

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Re: order sort by date

There is a new plugin called uploaded it will display the last uploaded files like the history and favorites.

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