Bulk File Upload!

Question

I was just checking out the release notes for Safari 11.1 (which includes support for Service Wokers!) and notices there was an note for a feature called Directory Upload:

Safari 11.1 Release Notes
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Articles/Safari_11...

So if Safari is adding this feature other browsers must have it already. Sure enough Chrome has something called DataTransferItem and the demo indicates you can drop a folder into a dropzone and all the files in the folder are readable by script. Check it out:

http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/dnd/all_types_of_import.html

It should be easy enough to pump all the files in the folder up to QuickBase with a button click.

The fun never ends!

anomDiebolt · Answer

This is how I would use this bulk file upload feature - upload and caption photos. The steps are super simple:

Select a folder or set of files
preview them using the technique used in the application below
enter captions using a text field spliced into the form below each previewed image

https://haversineconsulting.quickbase.com/db/bngrecwfd?a=nwr

Any professional photographer or videographer will tell you that immediately indexing the media is essential to being able to find it and use it at some time in the future. All sorts of metadata could be including in the captioning process. AND you could even read the EFIX data out of the photos using a library:

Exif.js
A JavaScript library for reading EXIF meta data from image files.
https://github.com/exif-js/exif-js

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