robbalvey Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) Hey everyone! We have added a new feature to the forum that we could use a bit of help testing out. Starting today, you should see this at the bottom of the screen where you can attach a file: You now have the option to attach a single image file, or you can now select multiple files from your hard drive directory or your iOS Camera Roll. Please note the following instructions: 1. Click the "Browse" button to access your hard drive or iOS Camera Roll. 2. Select the files you want to upload. 3. Keep in mind that the files will be uploaded in the order they are named. So if you are working on a trip report, be sure to label your files "rollercoaster_1.jpg", "roller coaster_2.jpg", "roller coaster_3.jpg", etc, etc... 4. Click "Add Multiple Files." 5. Once you have done this, it will bring you into the "preview mode" where you can add captions, change the order that your files will appear, etc 6. When you are ready to finalize your post, we STRONGLY recommend clicking "Preview" again, just to make sure everything looks correct, and then... 7. Click "SUBMIT!" A few additional notes about the multi-uploader... 1. If you are uploading from an iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc), you MUST check the "Uploading from iOS device" box, otherwise only one of your images will be uploaded! 2. We have added a "Place all Inline" button for those of you who like to add additional content inbetween your images (YouTube videos, Vine Videos, more text with URL's, etc, etc...) Again, we STRONGLY recommend clicking "Preview" to make sure your photos, captions, and other content are appearing correctly. 3. You can upload 25 images at a time. You can have more than 25 in one post, but you can only upload 25 at one time. 4. We have spent a few weeks testing this on our test forum, but we are still working out any bugs. If you notice anything that is not working, please report them IN THIS THREAD! That being said, we would love to see some new trip reports or photo updates posting using this new system! Please test it out and let us know what you think of this new feature! Thank you everyone for your help! --Robb Edited September 24, 2013 by robbalvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyyyper Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 OK, lets test this EDIT: just one note, during preview my pics where showing up reversed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 16, 2013 Author Share Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) EDIT: just one note, during preview my pics where showing up reversed. Yep, just noticed that. It was fixed in the test environment and that seems to have gotten missed when it went live. Fixing now... Edited August 16, 2013 by robbalvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 16, 2013 Author Share Posted August 16, 2013 Fixed! Preview order should be correct now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Figures that you put this in the day after I make my first trip report. I could have used something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vtafro Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Seemed to work great thanks robb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrlittle Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) This is a great feature for the forum. I think we will see even more photo threads because of it. edit: just used it on it on my last post. It worked fine for me. Edited August 16, 2013 by Mrlittle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I just used it now, on my latest TR posting, Robb. (And I uploaded 17 photos.) Worked perfect, for me. No prob at all. EDIT to add: For myself, one of the best parts of this new system, is that I can now change the order of the photos, in Preview mode. Great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 16, 2013 Author Share Posted August 16, 2013 Do me a favor and post the links in here of where you have used it. Just want to make sure things are working ok on the back end of the forum system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 ^ Okay. here's the link to my recent posting. Hope it works (if this is the right way to do it). http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=65816&p=1344386#p1344386 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vtafro Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=65095 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robman Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Testing it out! The following were uploaded from my iPhone, works perfectly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Testing her out from iPhone! And it appears to be in the order the photos were taken by time too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Sorry for the double post. This round I am attempting the multi uploader on the computer and seems to have worked flawlessly! I was initially concerned on how we'd caption our photos but see that it gives us thumbnail previews of the uploaded images. My SFMM trip report (long delayed) should now be a breeze! I did notice that it did not put my images in order by name but I do see the boxes where we can put what order the images are to be. I like the fact that I can rearrange my photos as in the past I have accidentally skipped a photo and had to do an "oops, forgot this pic" to my report. YOLO! Gertrude! Ouch! My #1 steel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 17, 2013 Author Share Posted August 17, 2013 ^ Leave your post the way it is. I want to look into why it's not organizing your photos by file name. Let me do another test below... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 (edited) Test from my Android. Results: I wasn't able to upload a batch of photos, just one photo at a time. But that may be because my phone doesn't really allow me to choose multiple photos. This is an improvement, though; in the past, I couldn't upload photos from my phone to the forum at all. Now that's a steak. Sunflower in a storm drain. Edited August 17, 2013 by cfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 (edited) ^^I had actually messed with the picture ordering afterwords, trying again with another, this time a sequence/series. It appears to be in order. *Light bulb turns on above head and realized something of my doing* Here's what happened, which I'm at fault for. I had named my photos "kbf-sfmm_#" and the next one uploaded was "kbf-sfmm_###." Had I stuck with triple digits all the way through my initial renaming sequence (001, 002, etc) they would have been in order. The first 2 images had a single digit in its file name and stuck them at the end...much like in my Explorer. So yea, to me This series of photos work due to the fact that the number section on these consist of a set of 3 digits. Looking ahead, when I do my trip report (and future trip reports), I'll have to batch rename my photos so that I can keep them in order. Edited August 17, 2013 by Angry_Gumball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Test from my PC. Works quite well. Mutant Japanese ladybugs. Go On. Going on Go On Unspeakable horror! Open the door for your Mystery Date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Clinksalot Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 What an awesome improvement!!! If you need more testing let me know but it looks like you have it covered in this thread at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
805Andrew Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Okay here's my test from a MacBook Pro. Pictures from Port Aventura from my Spain 2012 trip. The Multi Uploader only let me upload one picture at a time, but it let me rearrange the uploaded pictures in any order I wanted which is a huge +. I will have to test uploading from my iPhone 4S soon enough to see how that works out. #5 Dragon Khan in front of its new neighbour #3 Shambhala is next #1 We rode this first #2 Wait times after we got off Furious Baco #4 We are heading there #8 Shambhala and Dragon Khan living in harmony in the background. I'll have to post my Spain 2012 TR soon enough. #6 This has gotten really rough (especially Stampida on the left side of this pic) #7 One of my favorite drop rides Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 17, 2013 Author Share Posted August 17, 2013 (edited) The Multi Uploader only let me upload one picture at a time. Are you SURE you are using the "Multi-Uploader" and not the "Single Uploader?" I'm on a Macbook Pro too and the multi-uploader is working just fine for me in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. We've already had one person report a problem that turned out to be user error, so before I go report this to our developer, can you please be SURE you are using the multi-uploader. You're the only person to have reported this being an issue, so until you can provide more details, I also have to assume this is user error. Uploaded from a Macbook pro using the multi-uploader. Works just fine! Uploaded from a Macbook pro using the multi-uploader. Works just fine! Uploaded from a Macbook pro using the multi-uploader. Works just fine! Uploaded from a Macbook pro using the multi-uploader. Works just fine! Uploaded from a Macbook pro using the multi-uploader. Works just fine! Uploaded from a Macbook pro using the multi-uploader. Works just fine! Edited August 17, 2013 by robbalvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 17, 2013 Author Share Posted August 17, 2013 (edited) Another Test Yeah, I'm finding no issue using the multi-uploader with a Macbook Pro so I have to assume you're doing something wrong. If you're still having trouble, Andrew805, please record a video of the issue so I can see it and review what the problem seems to be. Edited August 17, 2013 by robbalvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 So, I played with the new multi-uploader, with a more complex update than most people have posted and ran into a bunch of problems. I'm using Windows 7 and MS Internet Explorer 10, if that matters. Here's the PTR update I posted, for reference. http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1344736#p1344736 So, the first problem I ran into is that the multi-uploader wouldn't accept any of my pictures! Instead, after uploading everything (with the files and percentages visibly being uploaded and going through) it eventually gave me this failure notice: Could not upload attachment to ./files/asia__12_-_days_18-20_-_chengdu_195.jpg. Could not upload attachment to ./files/asia__12_-_days_18-20_-_chengdu_196.jpg. Could not upload attachment to ./files/asia__12_-_days_18-20_-_chengdu_197.jpg. Could not upload attachment to ./files/asia__12_-_days_18-20_-_chengdu_198.jpg. etc... At first I thought it was the long file names, or maybe the hypens in my filenames. But after a bunch of trial and error, it turns out that the multi-uploader doesn't like apostrophe's. The filenames were in the format of Asia '12 - Days 18-20 - Chengdu 195.jpg Note that when adding the files individually, there aren't any problems with apostrophes. I even added one manually just to check if it still worked. Once I figured that out, I tried uploading pictures. It worked, but it paused for several minutes after it had said that the uploads were 100% done. Eventually, the first batch of pics was uploaded and ready, sending me into preview mode. But for some reason, it didn't give me the preview pictures themselves. Just the boxes with an X in them as placeholders for where the pictures should be. Not a big deal, though. So, I uploaded the rest of my pictures. For some reason, it then renumbered all of the pictures I'd previously uploaded to #1 in the posting order, and numbered the latest pics I had added as 2, 3, etc, I figured that was just a glitch that didn't matter. After uploading some more pics, I only had a few with higher numbers, and everything else was 1. I went to preview my post, and all of the pictures were out of order, in random order, other than those ones with the 2, 3, etc, which were at the end. So, I had to reorder them and manually change every single number! After I did so, everything posted correctly. So, apparently, when you add further groups of pictures, it resets all of the previous ones to 1. Which means that the person will now have to manually renumber every single picture into the right order. If not, they'll all get posted in a random order, since it thinks they're all supposed to be first. In short: -- apostrophes are not allowed in filenames for the mutiuploader -- there aren't any picture previews in the preview page -- if uploading more than one batch of pictures, ALL of the posting order numbers have to be manually changed. I hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 17, 2013 Author Share Posted August 17, 2013 ^ That's actually helpful information. Yeah, apostrophes are really troublesome and I highly recommend people not ever use them in filenames. EVER. As for the other issues, I'll have to check and see if they are an issue because of the apostrophes throwing the system off or a real issue. But this is helpful information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 17, 2013 Author Share Posted August 17, 2013 I double checked. There IS a bug with the display order if you upload more than one batch of photos in a post. We'll get that fixed. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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