#8 User placement of images in stories and comments

[Anonymous]

It should be possible to allow those publishing stories or comments to control where any associated images appear in the text by making use of wiki type tags.

For example if a story is published with same 3 images, then by placing tags like [[image1]] and [[image2]] in the text, then just before Oscailt displays a story or comment it could search for these tags and replace them with the html img src tag. It would need to build a list of these tags found and a list of images found for the given article.

It could also be a lot of work for nothing. Also once published, the publisher would as normal lose control again.

[Terence]

This has been implemented for stories but not for comments. The feature needs to be documented in the User Guide when it is eventually released

[Terence]

Something similar was done in release v3.7 to use the existing OSCAILTIMAGE macro. The publish form now has a button to click on to insert the macro and uses the selected image from the dropdown list which contains all the attached images of that story.