# Attachments/Resources

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachments-resources/100536>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [July 30, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachments-resources/100536 "2006-07-30T00:32:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jfrench](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jfrench](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfrench)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachments-resources/100536/1 "2006-07-30T00:32:48Z")

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I know this went around the list a few weeks ago but I forgot the  
outcome. Who is currently developing a way to upload/manage assets?

My use case is pretty simple and just involves uploading assets to some  
global asset manager (maybe in a fourth tab)… I don’t really see the  
point of ‘attaching’ assets to pages as was discussed earlier. Most  
assets are going to be in headers/footers/sidebars so if anything you’d  
just want to add attachments onto snippets or layouts. In each  
snippet/layout/page view I’d like to have a nice way to view all of the  
assets currently available on the site so that I don’t have to move back  
and forth to see file names. Assets could be flat and tagged or  
hierarchal.

Anyone working on solutions for all of this or should I modify radiant  
and put a patch into the system?

Josh

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**Author:** ![jfrench](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jfrench](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfrench)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachments-resources/100536/2 "2006-07-31T00:48:40Z")

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Hi  
I think you can use the pathces that are already available for  
attachments  
to pages.  
And just create a section in your page for the assets manager, since you  
can  
easily access any of the data in any page or page part from any section.  
I’ld think having a specialy made assdet manager will be a waste, since  
you  
can have the same result with no changes.  
Dror

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**Author:** ![jfrench](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jfrench](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfrench)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachments-resources/100536/3 "2006-07-31T15:10:15Z")

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Josh F. wrote:

> and forth to see file names. Assets could be flat and tagged or hierarchal.
> 
> Anyone working on solutions for all of this or should I modify radiant  
> and put a patch into the system?

Xavier and Tristan are working on something that looks quite promising  
as far as attachments go, but they have yet to post a patch. There is at  
least one patch for assets on the dev site, but the approach was  
different from the one that will probably make it into core (it extended  
page parts for attachments). If you want to work on something simple (a  
fourth tab) as you describe feel free to give it a go. I’m sure that  
others would be grateful for an easy way to upload assets.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)