closedI was hoping to use Omeka as a way to involve community in submitting photos, stories etc. but after the initial install I did not see these options available.
Are the contribute options a plug-in or are these things you developed yourself for these particular sites? If they are plug-ins, how can I get them to install?
Hi Ben,
We don't have the contribution plug-in bundled with this RC, but it is far along in the development process. Even though we have used that plug-in for other projects, it runs on pre-Omeka systems so we have to make sure that everything works with Omeka's architecture.
We'll let you know when it will be available.
Sheila
Thanks for the quick reply Sheila!
What kind of time frame are we looking at for the roll out of this plug in?
Ben
Ben,
I think we are looking at February, which is when we plan to release a public beta. But if it is done sooner, we'll let you know.
Sheila
Ben,
You can test out the collecting plug-in now in RC3.
Please let us know what you think of its functionality for your project.
Sheila
Sheila,
The plug-in seems to be exactly what I would need.
The one initial issue I have noticed is when you click on an "item" from the browse page it only shows the creator, item-type and date added but not the actual story/image/movie that you uploaded or added. Is this information something I will have to modify the source to get to display?
It would also be nice to show a thumbnail image on the browse page for images or an icon denoting whether it's a movie or sound, etc.
If this is something that has to modified on the source level, then that's fine...I can do that but it may be a nice out of the box option. Thanks for rolling this out so quickly! Well done.
Ben
Hi Ben,
You can add a thumbnail by using the following code in the items/browse.php page in your public theme. Somewhere inside your foreach loop, add:
<?php square_thumbnail($item); ?>
or, for regular thumbnails, add:
<?php thumbnail($item); ?>
where $item is the variable you've defined for each of your individual items in the foreach loop.
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