Best way to add photos, resize and compress

[wrwaugh]

the scenario:  

 

Several Drivers go out and photograph properties.  At end of day drivers upload photos to Dropbox in folders named to the property ID (ie. 1234567).  Drivers uses various photo methods... cameras, phones of iPhone, Android, etc.

 

Management takes photo folders from Dropbox, processes the folders manually with a compression program, puts them in a folder of known path. (ie. Desktop/Photos/)

 

Script is run to import folder of images in FM 12.  Script then passes the photos to SC and deletes the photos from FM, keeping the thumbnails for use in portals in iOS where SC Companion can not aid in showing images in container fields.  

 

Images also viewed in CWP (hence the use of SC not just native FM12)

 

the Desire:

 

Automate the process so drivers can upload photos with property IDs and human interaction is not required to resize and/or compress.  Any great ideas?

 

[David Jondreau]

I'm not sure about the property ID part, but the resizing should be pretty straightforward with the SC Companion Plugin.

 

Upload the full size to SuperContainer, creating a record for each upload with the filepath name. Then use the width and height parameters for either SCGetContainer / SC SetContainer functions and an unstored calculation field with a container result or the SCDownload function.

 

I haven't used the latter, but it should work and is probably more efficient.

 

PS: 360Works documentation is your friend: http://static.360works.com/plugins/SuperContainer/plugin-documentation.html