Bulk Image Import for Assets

[qamarkarasu]

Currently after importing a CSV of cards (that includes an image column (e.g., image: orcwarrior.png)), users are required to manually import each image into the "Assets" database and assign a name to each.
This process can be very time-consuming and tedious for projects with a large number of card images.

I propose a new feature for bulk importing images from a selected folder:

• Allow users to select a local folder containing all the images they wish to import.
• Automatic Naming: Automatically derive the asset name from the image filename (e.g., orcwarrior.png would become orcwarrior.png).
• Optional Extension Removal: Provide an option to automatically remove the file extension (e.g., .png, .jpg) from the derived asset name.

What are your thoughts on this?

[hristoiankov]

Historically multi file uploads on browsers have been finicky and so we opted out of it. However with Cider 0.5 coming out soon and overhauling the project navigation to be more files based, I'll reconsider/retest multi-file uploaders in the web app.

Currently this exact functionality exists in the standalone app (mac, windows, linux). The project management is much nicer in the standalone as your projects are saved into their own folders and simple files (.csv, .html, .css). There is an /assets folder when you save a project in the standalone app. If you manually copy images into the /assets folder inside your project and restart cider, it will pick up all your new images and do exactly as you outlined (infer the asset name from the filename--in kebab-case with the file extension removed).

Thanks for writing this out, it is great feedback. Sometimes I only have my own workflow optimized, but it's extremely valuable to know how others use the app and how things can be improved to speed and ease up their workflow as well.

[qamarkarasu]

Thanks for the quick response and detailed explanation! It's great to hear you're reconsidering multi-file uploads for images with Cider 0.5. Also, I had no idea you could just manually copy images into the standalone app's "assets" folder for them to be picked up – that's a super helpful tip Ill definitely use.

And thanks for CIDEr! I'd be happy to give more feedback if you'd like!

(I currently have my own website for our hobby project, which contains the raw data for the cards. Since we are three people working on the data at once, we cant fully use Cider right now. Therefore, we're constantly importing the CSV files and images into Cider. So it's probably not the normal workflow you should have with Cider).

[hristoiankov]

If you're collaborating on a project with multiple people, I highly recommend you set up a private GitHub repo of your project (ex. https://github.com/oatear/cosmic-apple-game). You can then all commit + push new changes to your project and have built in version control and release tags for your card game. I can write up a guide for how to do this to make it easier to get started.