Add-on Attachment Management

[QenTox]

After checking out these 2 add-ons:

Attachment Manager
Attachment Viewer

I think the Attachments Management is not done very well in XenForo. Wait... it seems, there is no Attachment Managemet at all in XenForo right now! I like the way you can use them as full images, thumbnails and view them in popup window, but what a waste of resources it is not to be able to use them again?

Let's make a real example: I am creating news threads, where I use a lot of images. Let's say I already made 4 news threads about the game GTA 5 with image attachments.

The easiest way to find attachments from those 4 news threads would be if I could search (browse) in attachments and

• filter attachments by forum (will display attachments from only a specified forum)
• filter attachments by thread title (entering gta 5 would find only attachments from threads with GTA 5 in title)
• filter attachments by tags (will only find attachments from threads tagged by word GTA 5)
• filter attachments by filename (should have mentioned this in 1st place)

What I am looking for?

• to reuse not only your attachments, but any attachment uploaded to your site
• to display all of them in front-end and to be able to search between them and to filter them by various criterias
• to be able to use them again as full images and thumbnails too (viewable for guests too!)
• to be able to search only for images (you can attach packaged files and other things too afaik)

Again I really like the way how easy it is to upload files (images) to threads and how well they can be used in thread. But there really should be a way to re-use those attachments again for everyone and not to upload dupes again and again...

If someone could code this for me then please don't hesitate and contact me with a quote. Thanks!

 

[0ptima]

This needs to be added to the core of XF.

 

[QenTox]

@0ptima thanks. I am glad you like this idea. Actually I made a suggestion to include this in core here:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...chments-available-to-everyone-to-reuse.58413/