Contributor photos?

Quick question: is there any (easy) way to relate media to a
 
contributor? E.g., a contributor photo, etc.? I know that it
would be  
easy enough to put an img src in a contributor type field
level  
element ... but I'm just wondering if anyone's got it so
that media  
can be associated directly?

Best,

Phillip.

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Phillip Smith,
Simplifier of Technology
Community Bandwidth

> Quick question: is there any (easy) way to relate media
to a  
> contributor?

Looks like you can only add custom fields to contributor
profiles. Could
you create a custom field where you enter the media asset's
ID?

Chris

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Er. I don't think there's an easy way, but there are ways.
One option,
which turned out to be less painful than I expected, was to
give
contributor photos titles using a strict <$firstname
$lastname>
convention, and just have the template look for the most
recent photo of
type contributor_mugshot that matched the name.

But as for relating media directly, no. Sometimes I've
wondered about
using a story for each contributor, just as a tank for
holding all this
extra stuff.

Cheers,

Bret


>
> Quick question: is there any (easy) way to relate media
to a
> contributor? E.g., a contributor photo, etc.? I know
that it would be
> easy enough to put an img src in a contributor type
field level
> element ... but I'm just wondering if anyone's got it
so that media
> can be associated directly?
>
> Best,
>
> Phillip.
>
> --
> Phillip Smith,
> Simplifier of Technology
> Community Bandwidth
>
>
>
>


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Bret Dawson
Producer
Pectopah Productions Inc.
(416) 895-7635
bretpectopah.com
www.pectopah.com

On Jul 19, 2007, at 05:22, Bret Dawson wrote:

> But as for relating media directly, no. Sometimes I've
wondered about
> using a story for each contributor, just as a tank for
holding all  
> this
> extra stuff.

We've done that in the past for customers. This can work
well if,  
e.g., you want a story for each contributor that contains a
photo,  
bio, and a list of the stories the contributor has, erm,
contributed  
to. They're usually fixed stories that use the slug in the
URL, so  
it'd be something like
/contributors/dawson_bret/index.html.

Best,

David

These are all really great ideas folks. Many thanks Chris,
David, and  
Bret. I'll write-up a recipe once I get it working.

Phillip.

On 19-Jul-07, at 12:35 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> On Jul 19, 2007, at 05:22, Bret Dawson wrote:
>
>> But as for relating media directly, no. Sometimes
I've wondered about
>> using a story for each contributor, just as a tank
for holding all  
>> this
>> extra stuff.
>
> We've done that in the past for customers. This can
work well if,  
> e.g., you want a story for each contributor that
contains a photo,  
> bio, and a list of the stories the contributor has,
erm,  
> contributed to. They're usually fixed stories that use
the slug in  
> the URL, so it'd be something like
/contributors/dawson_bret/ 
> index.html.
>
> Best,
>
> David

--
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Simplifier of Technology
Community Bandwidth
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