Recently I came across this behavior: i have all the images i need for a galley in a folder, by example "Uploads/myimage/"; with DOM and Uploadify, when i import images from that folder, they are copied (duplicated) in the folder "Uploads/". Later i discover that if i set the same upload folder, so "Uploads/myimage/", images aren't copied.
Digging trough the DOM sources i found the code doing that on class FileDataObjectManager, function saveImportForm().
I can not imagine why this thing is done, but i'm curious.
In any case, I think it would be useful to implement a way to disable this behavior.
What do you think? :)

Hi,

I was just about to post a similar issue.

I set up a basic GalleryPage with ImageDataObjectManager/Uploadify and created a GalleryImage Dataobject to hold the actual Images and Captions, relationships are set and all is working well.

Now, if I use the IDOM Popup to upload images and try to upload to any other folder than the default "assets/Uploads/", the images will end up in both /Uploads/ AND the folder I selected. The GalleryImage Dataobject links up to the copy in /Uploads/ though.

Code is as follows

class GalleryPage extends Page {

	static $has_many = array (
		'Images' => 'GalleryImage',
	);

	function getCMSFields() {
		$f = parent::getCMSFields();

		$manager = new ImageDataObjectManager(
			$this,
			'Images',
			'GalleryImage',
			'Image',
			array(
				'Text' => 'Bildunterschrift'
			),
			'getCMSFields_forPopup'
		);

		$f->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Bilder-Gallerie",$manager);

		return $f;
	}

}

<?php
class GalleryImage extends DataObject {

	static $db = array (
		'Text' => 'Text'
	);

	public static $has_one = array (
		"Image" => "Image",
		"GalleryPage" => "GalleryPage",
	);

	public function getCMSFields_forPopup() {
		return new FieldSet(
			new FileIFrameField("Image"),
			new TextField("Text")
		);
	}

}

Anyone else having problems with this?

Thanks in advance, and great work on the modules Uncle Cheese. Haven't been back here in while, but I love the new features.

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EDIT: Using 2.4.5, DOM r540, Uploadify r534

Correction.
The function saveImportForm() i think is for when not using Uploadify.
For the installation with Uploadify the function is saveUploadifyForm().
For now i solved the duplication behaviour by commentig the lines as below:

public function saveUploadifyForm($data, $form)
	{
		if(!isset($data['UploadedFiles']) || !is_array($data['UploadedFiles'])) {
			return Director::redirectBack();
		}
		
		$file_class = $this->fileClassName;
		$do_class = $this->sourceClass();
		$idxfield = $this->fileFieldName."ID";
		$fff = $this->fileFieldName;
		$dataobject_ids = array();
		if($this->hasDataObject) {
			foreach($data['UploadedFiles'] as $id) {
				if($file = DataObject::get_by_id("File", (int) $id)) {
//					$upload_folder = $form->Fields()->fieldByName('UploadedFiles')->uploadFolder;
//					$folder_id = Folder::findOrMake($upload_folder)->ID;
//					if($file->ParentID != $folder_id) {
//						$new_file_path = $this->uploadFolder.'/'.$file->Name;
//						copy($file->getFullPath(), BASE_PATH.'/'.ASSETS_DIR.'/'.$new_file_path);
//						$clone = new $file_class();
//						$clone->Filename = $new_file_path;
//						$clone->ParentID = $folder_id;						
//						$clone->write();
//						$id = $clone->ID;
//					}
					
					$obj = new $do_class();			
					$obj->$idxfield = $id;
					$ownerID = $this->getParentIdName($this->getParentClass(), $this->sourceClass());
					$obj->$ownerID = $this->controllerID;
					$this->updateDataObject($obj);
					$obj->write();
					$obj->$fff()->write();
					$dataobject_ids[] = $obj->ID;
				}
			}
			$_POST['uploaded_files'] = $dataobject_ids;
			foreach($_POST['uploaded_files'] as $id) {
			}
		}	
		else {
			foreach($data['UploadedFiles'] as $id) {
				if($file = DataObject::get_by_id("File", (int) $id)) {
					$ownerID = $this->getParentIdName($this->getParentClass(), $this->sourceClass());
					$file->$ownerID = $this->controllerID;
					$file->write();
				}
			}
		}		

      $form = $this->EditUploadedForm();
		return $this->customise(array(
		  'String' => is_string($form),
			'DetailForm' => $form
		))->renderWith($this->templatePopup);
	}

All seem to works fine.

I made the changes as indicated and I am getting a URL error in Image Gallery when I add title and information. Have you tried this with the latest Image Gallery (34f64c0) from GITHUB?

file duplication didn't make much sense to me, too, so i commented out the lines in FileDataObjectManager as @mirkokassetti suggested. works for me, thanks for sharing

I have to agree - for me file duplication doesn't make any sense, just makes a mess in the assets folder. Any chance of changing this behaviour in the module Uncle Cheese? If a file already exists why make another copy of it? Cheers

I am having this same issue with SS 2.4.5 and the DOM that is downloadable form the SS site. In IDOM uploadify window I can select in a dropdown a different folder than Uploads. When I upload an image, I find it in both my Assets/Gallery/ and in Assets/Uploads/. And when I am presented the window for editing the newly created dataobject that the image was attached to I can see that the image in Assets/Uploads is the one that got attached to my dataobject. so the act of selecting a folder in uploadify's dropdown is completely useless. Is there possible a problem with the dataobject I am managing with IDOM?

No, this isn't an issue but a "feature", it's coded.
I'm testing a modified version of DOM with a parameter to disable the duplication. When i'm sure that it works, i try to submit it to UncleCheese for inclusion in master.