Article Specific Image

This feature request has everything to do with the teaser of the article.
1) When i was sharing the article, or while displaying the article in Category view, The images are extracted automatically from the description and displayed. I have no say over which image appears in the category description. I don't know the criterion of choice for a particular image to appear
2)Consider this case.I have a main category and two sub categories, The main category also displays items of the sub-categories. When i display them on the front end, The sub categories have images while the main categories are devoid of them.
3) I tried adding an image field to every article but the problem with that is that the image field does not link to the article. The image is just displayed. Drupal has added this feature of one image for an article feature in the latest version.

Could you please add this feature or if it has already been implemented and i am unaware of it please let me know!

An idea In your template php doing a little php if

Hello,

So in short:

you ask for a new parameter in our image field, to link to item view when the image field is displayed in category view
right ?

Pretty much yeah!

Sorry for the disturbance but i just realized that this could be done from the templates itself
Step 1: Create new "article image" field that has only one image
Step 2: Push the image field into the category template and the item template
Step 3: Now in the category settings in the layout section - You have the provision to choose images for both leading items and intro items from an image source - There you can choose the article image field among other options - "Extract from main text".
There is also another option - Link Image - To link the image to the article.

I guess there is no need to create anything new - there are provisions in the flexi content design to accomplish this

The reason why i ask this question (about a specific image for an article) is because. I embed a lot of images hosted on picasa or flickr (to save a lot fo space) When the php code tries to extract images from description and create thumbnails for category images it results in an error because the image is located else where.
Having a specific field for the image would actually mean only one image per article vs having ten images on the localhost. I can only upload that one image for which the code would create a thumbnail!
This field would also give more choice as to the image that i want to show in the category description.

How this went?

Hello

i think we need an option in image field, to allow this:

a. display a single image instead of multiple as field display
b. also include an image total (e.g. 14 images)
c. link to item

Here is the enhancement issue in bug tracker:
code.google.com/p/flexicontent/i ... ail?id=606