Image/File Management about tw5-bob HOT 7 CLOSED

Are you using the newest version?

On the wikis I am using I can just drag and drop the images into the wiki and they are saved like on the normal nodejs version. Or if you want to use _canonical_uri you can set the filePathRoot in the settings.json

https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-MultiUser/blob/master/Configuration.md

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I updated to the newest versions of both TW5 and MultiUserWiki. It looks like with this change the drag and drop feature now imports files.

For the _canonical_uri feature, I couldn't confirm whether it works. Here is what I did.

1. added "path":"file://milwaukee/project/MASTERS/Data%20Science/ds_imgs" manually to the settings.json.
2. I restarted the server to make sure settings.json was loaded
3. I confirmed that "file://milwaukee/project/MASTERS/Data%20Science/ds_imgs" is indeed network accessible via browser.
4. I created an image tiddler with _canonical_uri set to "path/my_image.png"

It shows this:

My guess is that I am not properly accessing the path from settings.json?

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Why did you add something called path?

from tw5-bob.

the record has to specifically be named "filePathRoot"? I just gave it an arbitrary name.

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The specifics are here.

https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-MultiUser/blob/master/Configuration.md

https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-MultiUser/blob/master/Documentation/Serving%20Files.tid

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Got it. Thank you for pointing me to the Serving Files documentation. That helped me understand the importance of using specifically "filePathRoot" as the key in settings.json. Unfortunately, when using
"./file/my_image.png" for my _canonical_uri and setting the tiddler type to ''image/png," It for some reason still does not work,

I attempted to change filePathRoot from:
file://milwaukee/project/MASTERS/Data Science/ds_imgs
to
file:///milwaukee/project/MASTERS/Data Science/ds_imgs

I tried both with backslashes as well restarting the server after each change and none of those worked either

I am satisfied for now with just importing the images directly so you can close this issue, but I'm just letting you know I was never able to get it to work using _canonical_uri =/

Thank you for your help!!

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If you just use the file path to the folder like in examples in the documentation instead of the full uri with the scheme it should work fine.

File paths start with / on linux or osx and something like c:/ on windows. uris start with file:///

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