Is it possible to override the flash uploader via a module? I know you can extend it via the Server Add module, but I want to eliminate it altogether. I'm hoping there is a cleaner way to do it than going in and hacking the code myself (as that always results in breaking upgrade paths for me).
I hate flash and refuse to use it, but I love Gallery. I have been using G2 for years and I'm especially excited about the improvements to simplicity that have been made in G3!
My work flow is that I will typically just upload either 1) a zip file of a bunch of photos I want to add in bulk, or 2) I will add a single photo at a time (photoblog style). I love that G2 will automatically unzip of the zip file for me.
If it is possible to override via a module, are there any coders out there with an equal distaste for flash that would be willing to team up with a UX guy to build it?
-Chuck
Glooper
Joined: 2005-09-21
Posts: 225
Posted: Sat, 2010-05-22 19:44
the gwtorganize module is an alternative to the flash uploader and the organize module.
However, it still use a plugin (google gears) to allow the browser to upload multiple files at once. I guess it's whether you don't mind using google gears over flash?
Great tip, thank you Ben! Still not ideal as there is no google gears for my primary browser (Safari—well there is a hack to kind of make it work under 10.6, but nothing truly supported)... I much prefer the plain old HTML implementation of file upload. Zipping the files up ahead of time takes all of 5 seconds and in the grand scheme of my work-flow, is nothing (for Mac users, I recommend YemuZip as it gets rid of the Mac-specific meta-data files).
Still, it is enlightening to know that it is possible. There may be hope for G3 and me yet!
G3 time: "2010-May-26 21:15:16" when real time is "Thu May 27 07:15:16 EEST 2010".
nivekiam
Joined: 2002-12-10
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Posted: Thu, 2010-05-27 04:33
jpalko, please start a new thread. If we figure it out in this thread nobody else will be able to find it. But it's also really hard to do support in a thread that's already 4 pages long and has at least 100 different topics already....
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Posted: Thu, 2010-05-27 08:54
nivekiam wrote:
jpalko, please start a new thread. If we figure it out in this thread nobody else will be able to find it. But it's also really hard to do support in a thread that's already 4 pages long and has at least 100 different topics already....
I quite agree and just added a new topic.
XabiX
Joined: 2009-05-27
Posts: 19
Posted: Wed, 2010-06-02 12:21
When is RC2 scheduled?
When is the GA version scheduled?
I am quite impress with the huge work done in g3 but I d like all to move to these release to get many contributions/wikis etc...
Thanks for the hard job done!
Crenel
Joined: 2010-06-06
Posts: 6
Posted: Sun, 2010-06-06 23:55
Working on installing G3 RC1 and looking forward to playing with it, but not liking some of what I see...
A) ...regarding creation of 'var' directory as storage for photo files.
1. "var" as a name does not make sense for "photo storage" -- it has implications that also don't match photo storage. If it is used for other things, as it appears to be, that should be clarified (albeit concisely).
2. Creating the "var" directory, setting permissions, and rechecking allows installation to proceed, but the message "We've found a place to store your photos:" does not actually display the storage location, as the trailing colon and empty "box" below the message imply should happen.
3. Security is not the only reason for storing photo files outside of the Web server directory structure. Installation should default to the 'var' option but also allow a relatively straightforward override.
B) ...regarding the post-installation error "Gallery requires short_open_tag to be on." -- I consider this a bad idea to begin with, and the condition is not handled elegantly (not checked during installation, error on unstyled page, terse error message, "dead end" - no re-check link, etc.). I realize this is enabled in the .htaccess file that ships with G3 but at the moment it's still not working, so I have to find the cause.
@Crenel: regarding the var directory, we can provide an override but I'm not particularly excited about making the installer more complicated. I suspect that only a tiny fraction of our users want to override the path. Please file a feature request, and we can take care of this. I just did a fresh install and it does show me the path to the var dir (see my attachment). Are you seeing something different?
Regarding short_open_tag, I'm not going to debate whether or not we should use it (we're going to, we've debated that quite a bit). I agree that the error message isn't the greatest. I've just pushed some code that checks for short_open_tag in the installer as well so that at least it's a themed error response. Oh, and in the process I discovered that without short_open_tags set to on, it triggers the error you are seeing above where the path to the VAR dir isn't displayed, so that should fix the above problem as well.
FWIW, you can add me to the list of those wanting var to be "below" the public-viewable area. I wasn't aware it would work that way so if it does, maybe the issue is wording during the installation (e.g. saying you can put it below the web-viewable area, since I thought you couldn't do that) and some way to change your settings later.
Love the new G3, much more than the oversized G2. Good job!
But is there a chance of seeing some html5 in G3?
Sorry, I have noe idea when it comes to coding and stuff so I cant really start a new mod or something
Has it been mentioned earlier in this thread? And is a way for me to move from the 3x3 (?) images and cram up as much as possible images from one folder into one page? Make use of the space that is available? Been looking on some of the themes but they kinda look the same when it comes to the layout of the images.
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Posted: Mon, 2010-06-07 22:56
mrf00rk,
HTML5 is currently being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and is not finalized yet.
Quote:
I have noe idea when it comes to coding
then what is your concern about HTML? Please star a new thread for this topic.
Quote:
Has it been mentioned earlier in this thread?
Feel free to page back and see.
Quote:
And is a way for me to move from the 3x3 (?) images and cram up as much as possible images from one folder into one page?
Yes. Admin->Appearance theme options. or choose another theme.
Dave, no reply is better than that, makes no sence why you said than, but maybe it shows no real commitment or something, who knows. I guess we'll just wait and see.
Thanks, yes a lot. I can suggest (IMHO) that to execise the rewritten and refactored code and bug fixes some release like RC 1.99 would be benificial otherwise all that new stuff lives in a silo and never get sort-of tested/used to find more possible bugs or better ways of doing things. This iterative appoach is maybe not so clean for RCs, but can be rather effective.
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Joined: 2006-02-09
Posts: 16
Posted: Fri, 2010-06-11 18:59
btw I made a small donation to G. Not much, but will at least cover domain name reg fees for a year or something.
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Posted: Fri, 2010-06-11 21:46
We strongly encourage you to try out the latest code. It's stable and your testing will help us make it better. See the urls below.
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Posted: Sat, 2010-06-12 10:53
#20 {main}
2010-06-12 02:11:37 -07:00 --- error: load_user Exception: #144: Table './siwaol/img_sessions' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed [ SELECT `data`
...
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my site is down....... anyone can help me???
plz.........plz.
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@chhcuo: your MySQL database has suffered an error. It's fixable. Please open a new forum topic for this and somebody will help you.
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Posted: Wed, 2010-06-16 18:09
bharat wrote:
We strongly encourage you to try out the latest code. It's stable and your testing will help us make it better.
I'm doing that, I just downloaded and installed gallery-gallery3-3.0-rc-1-247-gea8653f.zip
Where should the feedback go? This thread? Open another thread?
It seems like non-standard resized image sizes (800 instead of 640) are not handled well. I seem to remember something similar when I tested plain RC1. IMO, the theme should be flexible and adapt to various resized image sizes.
Also, I see this in the 2010-06-16.log.php:
<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.'); ?>
I'm not sure what it means.
Server side is Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache 2.2.11 and PHP 5.2.6. Should be a pretty standard install, I don't think I tinkered with it too much.
Client side is Chrome stable on Ubuntu 9.10.
Hey, congrats, the slideshow now has a progress bar down in the left-hand corner. Before, it just threw a black screen at me. This is much better.
Now, can I control the default slideshow behavior as an admin? I'd like to specify whether the slideshow should start with looping=on or off by default. Or even whether it should start in paused mode or not, by default.
The comments module is enabled, but "Who can leave comments?" is set to "Only registered users". Okay. I logout (*) then I go to an album, click on a thumbnail to see a picture. Even though I am not logged in, and only registered users can leave comments, I still see the "No comments yet. Be the first to comment!" link at the bottom. I don't think this link should be displayed in this context - it should only show up if the visitor could actually leave a comment right now, without doing anything else (such as logging in or whatnot).
Since I'm not logged in, and since comments are forbidden in this state, clicking that link does nothing, which is confusing.
(*) - by the way, let's say I login as an admin, I go to the Modules page to tweak some modules, then I click Logout. I always get the "Dang... Page not found!" message. Maybe Logout should be contextual somehow - stay on the same page after logout if the current page is a picture, but redirect to the root album if the current page is something an anonymous visitor should not see. It's not a big deal, it's just a little jarring to get that error message.
Where should the feedback go? This thread? Open another thread?
New thread please. I'm already lost with your shotgun blast of 4 quick comments nobody was able to reply to. This thread is too long and any problems or feedback at this point will just get lost in the noise.
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Posted: Wed, 2010-06-16 19:16
nivekiam wrote:
New thread please. I'm already lost with your shotgun blast of 4 quick comments nobody was able to reply to. This thread is too long and any problems or feedback at this point will just get lost in the noise.
I'll open new threads, sorry about that.
EDIT: Done. Admins, feel free to delete my messages above.
I can't believe how easy it is to upgrade using Git. That said, there still appears to be no multi-photo organizer other than GWT which does not work with my install for whatever reason.
nivekiam
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Posts: 16504
Posted: Thu, 2010-06-17 15:52
I don't know what you mean by "multi-photo" organizer. Do you mean where you can grab multiple photos and move them to a different album? If so, the current version of Organize is working and doing just that. If you have a recent git pull you should just have to install Organize and it should work. You'll still need to make sure you run through the upgrade process even when pulling from git.
D'oh! I git-updated but didn't run the upgrader. My bad. It works!!!!! THANK YOU!!!
mhanes
Joined: 2010-06-30
Posts: 1
Posted: Wed, 2010-06-30 10:36
I love the new changes, improved interface, ease of use, multi upload however there is one feature that I feel is absolutely necessary. There should be more than the 2 login types. It seems that if you want to give users the ability to upload you have to give them admin rights and that is too much power to potentially mess up settings. In addition those extra options are overwhelming to most who would rather just upload some photos as a registered user.
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Posted: Wed, 2010-06-30 16:25
@mhanes: Users don't need to be admin to upload. Create a group, put those users in it, and give the group edit permissions wherever you want them to be able to upload.
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My first experience with G3 it's great.
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yeah, it's great.
one thing i'm missing at the moment:
to set the permission for users not logged in to only see thumbnails (instead of seeing nothing).
i've created a ticket for that...
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gallery/ticket/1151
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Is it possible to override the flash uploader via a module? I know you can extend it via the Server Add module, but I want to eliminate it altogether. I'm hoping there is a cleaner way to do it than going in and hacking the code myself (as that always results in breaking upgrade paths for me).
I hate flash and refuse to use it, but I love Gallery. I have been using G2 for years and I'm especially excited about the improvements to simplicity that have been made in G3!
My work flow is that I will typically just upload either 1) a zip file of a bunch of photos I want to add in bulk, or 2) I will add a single photo at a time (photoblog style). I love that G2 will automatically unzip of the zip file for me.
If it is possible to override via a module, are there any coders out there with an equal distaste for flash that would be willing to team up with a UX guy to build it?
-Chuck
Posts: 225
the gwtorganize module is an alternative to the flash uploader and the organize module.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:gwtorganize
However, it still use a plugin (google gears) to allow the browser to upload multiple files at once. I guess it's whether you don't mind using google gears over flash?
Ben
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Great tip, thank you Ben! Still not ideal as there is no google gears for my primary browser (Safari—well there is a hack to kind of make it work under 10.6, but nothing truly supported)... I much prefer the plain old HTML implementation of file upload. Zipping the files up ahead of time takes all of 5 seconds and in the grand scheme of my work-flow, is nothing (for Mac users, I recommend YemuZip as it gets rid of the Mac-specific meta-data files).
Still, it is enlightening to know that it is possible. There may be hope for G3 and me yet!
Thanks,
-Chuck
Posts: 14
Is there a simple way to set the timezone in gallery3? I tried the way in "[solved] how to change the timezone in gallery3" but as my comment there says, timezone keeps on being wrong.
G3 time: "2010-May-26 21:15:16" when real time is "Thu May 27 07:15:16 EEST 2010".
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jpalko, please start a new thread. If we figure it out in this thread nobody else will be able to find it. But it's also really hard to do support in a thread that's already 4 pages long and has at least 100 different topics already....
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I quite agree and just added a new topic.
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When is RC2 scheduled?
When is the GA version scheduled?
I am quite impress with the huge work done in g3 but I d like all to move to these release to get many contributions/wikis etc...
Thanks for the hard job done!
Posts: 6
Working on installing G3 RC1 and looking forward to playing with it, but not liking some of what I see...
A) ...regarding creation of 'var' directory as storage for photo files.
1. "var" as a name does not make sense for "photo storage" -- it has implications that also don't match photo storage. If it is used for other things, as it appears to be, that should be clarified (albeit concisely).
2. Creating the "var" directory, setting permissions, and rechecking allows installation to proceed, but the message "We've found a place to store your photos:" does not actually display the storage location, as the trailing colon and empty "box" below the message imply should happen.
3. Security is not the only reason for storing photo files outside of the Web server directory structure. Installation should default to the 'var' option but also allow a relatively straightforward override.
B) ...regarding the post-installation error "Gallery requires short_open_tag to be on." -- I consider this a bad idea to begin with, and the condition is not handled elegantly (not checked during installation, error on unstyled page, terse error message, "dead end" - no re-check link, etc.). I realize this is enabled in the .htaccess file that ships with G3 but at the moment it's still not working, so I have to find the cause.
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@Crenel: regarding the var directory, we can provide an override but I'm not particularly excited about making the installer more complicated. I suspect that only a tiny fraction of our users want to override the path. Please file a feature request, and we can take care of this. I just did a fresh install and it does show me the path to the var dir (see my attachment). Are you seeing something different?
Regarding short_open_tag, I'm not going to debate whether or not we should use it (we're going to, we've debated that quite a bit). I agree that the error message isn't the greatest. I've just pushed some code that checks for short_open_tag in the installer as well so that at least it's a themed error response. Oh, and in the process I discovered that without short_open_tags set to on, it triggers the error you are seeing above where the path to the VAR dir isn't displayed, so that should fix the above problem as well.
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FWIW, you can add me to the list of those wanting var to be "below" the public-viewable area. I wasn't aware it would work that way so if it does, maybe the issue is wording during the installation (e.g. saying you can put it below the web-viewable area, since I thought you couldn't do that) and some way to change your settings later.
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FYI:
FAQ: Are my photos secure? They're right there on my website!
So it will be more complex to move the var direcotry below web root.
Dave
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Is good but I can't upload my .flv videos because he said "Unable to process this file"... :S
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eportuguesas
Please start a new thread in the forums with your issue. It is almost impossible to offer support on a story page with 4 pages.
Dave
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Love the new G3, much more than the oversized G2. Good job!
But is there a chance of seeing some html5 in G3?
Sorry, I have noe idea when it comes to coding and stuff so I cant really start a new mod or something
Has it been mentioned earlier in this thread? And is a way for me to move from the 3x3 (?) images and cram up as much as possible images from one folder into one page? Make use of the space that is available? Been looking on some of the themes but they kinda look the same when it comes to the layout of the images.
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mrf00rk,
HTML5 is currently being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and is not finalized yet.
then what is your concern about HTML? Please star a new thread for this topic.
Feel free to page back and see.
Yes. Admin->Appearance theme options. or choose another theme.
Please start a new thread with specific issues.
Dave
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How would I manually order albums in g3? I don't see any options to tell for example this album should be first etc.
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There is a organize module.
Yes, it is being redone
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any new RC coming out for g3 then?
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Yes in the future.
Dave
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Dave, no reply is better than that, makes no sence why you said than, but maybe it shows no real commitment or something, who knows. I guess we'll just wait and see.
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Is this better: Release schedule for Gallery 3 ?
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Thanks, yes a lot. I can suggest (IMHO) that to execise the rewritten and refactored code and bug fixes some release like RC 1.99 would be benificial otherwise all that new stuff lives in a silo and never get sort-of tested/used to find more possible bugs or better ways of doing things. This iterative appoach is maybe not so clean for RCs, but can be rather effective.
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btw I made a small donation to G. Not much, but will at least cover domain name reg fees for a year or something.
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#20 {main}
2010-06-12 02:11:37 -07:00 --- error: load_user Exception: #144: Table './siwaol/img_sessions' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed [ SELECT `data`
...
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my site is down....... anyone can help me???
plz.........plz.
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I'm doing that, I just downloaded and installed gallery-gallery3-3.0-rc-1-247-gea8653f.zip
Where should the feedback go? This thread? Open another thread?
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Ah, what the heck, I'll post it here.
Installed it. Went through the admin tab, enabled a few modules, configured the Server Add module, added another language.
Theme options / Resized image size, changed it from 640 to 800.
Created an album, then another album nested into it. Uploaded 6 large JPEG pictures. When I view a picture, I get this:
http://imgur.com/2qRtY
It seems like non-standard resized image sizes (800 instead of 640) are not handled well. I seem to remember something similar when I tested plain RC1. IMO, the theme should be flexible and adapt to various resized image sizes.
Also, I see this in the 2010-06-16.log.php:
<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.'); ?>I'm not sure what it means.
Server side is Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache 2.2.11 and PHP 5.2.6. Should be a pretty standard install, I don't think I tinkered with it too much.
Client side is Chrome stable on Ubuntu 9.10.
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Hey, congrats, the slideshow now has a progress bar down in the left-hand corner. Before, it just threw a black screen at me. This is much better.
Now, can I control the default slideshow behavior as an admin? I'd like to specify whether the slideshow should start with looping=on or off by default. Or even whether it should start in paused mode or not, by default.
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UI inconsistency:
When I browse the thumbnails in an album, the Previous / Next buttons are at the bottom, below all thumbnails.
When I browse an album image by image (after clicking on a thumbnail) the buttons suddenly move to the top, above the image.
That's confusing. Keep the buttons in one place.
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The comments module is enabled, but "Who can leave comments?" is set to "Only registered users". Okay. I logout (*) then I go to an album, click on a thumbnail to see a picture. Even though I am not logged in, and only registered users can leave comments, I still see the "No comments yet. Be the first to comment!" link at the bottom. I don't think this link should be displayed in this context - it should only show up if the visitor could actually leave a comment right now, without doing anything else (such as logging in or whatnot).
Since I'm not logged in, and since comments are forbidden in this state, clicking that link does nothing, which is confusing.
(*) - by the way, let's say I login as an admin, I go to the Modules page to tweak some modules, then I click Logout. I always get the "Dang... Page not found!" message. Maybe Logout should be contextual somehow - stay on the same page after logout if the current page is a picture, but redirect to the root album if the current page is something an anonymous visitor should not see. It's not a big deal, it's just a little jarring to get that error message.
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New thread please. I'm already lost with your shotgun blast of 4 quick comments nobody was able to reply to. This thread is too long and any problems or feedback at this point will just get lost in the noise.
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I'll open new threads, sorry about that.
EDIT: Done. Admins, feel free to delete my messages above.
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Also please upgrade to the latest Git version before giving feedback as some issues and other bugs have been fixed since RC1
bugs/feature req's | upgrade to the latest code | use git
Dave
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I can't believe how easy it is to upgrade using Git. That said, there still appears to be no multi-photo organizer other than GWT which does not work with my install for whatever reason.
Posts: 16504
I don't know what you mean by "multi-photo" organizer. Do you mean where you can grab multiple photos and move them to a different album? If so, the current version of Organize is working and doing just that. If you have a recent git pull you should just have to install Organize and it should work. You'll still need to make sure you run through the upgrade process even when pulling from git.
www.example.com/gallery3/index.php/upgrader
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D'oh! I git-updated but didn't run the upgrader. My bad. It works!!!!! THANK YOU!!!
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I love the new changes, improved interface, ease of use, multi upload however there is one feature that I feel is absolutely necessary. There should be more than the 2 login types. It seems that if you want to give users the ability to upload you have to give them admin rights and that is too much power to potentially mess up settings. In addition those extra options are overwhelming to most who would rather just upload some photos as a registered user.
Posts: 7994
@mhanes: Users don't need to be admin to upload. Create a group, put those users in it, and give the group edit permissions wherever you want them to be able to upload.
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