Image Sync

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Aug-2011 00:00

I have a ton (like 3k+) of images I'd like to bring over from Gallery Server Pro. Now that 4.2 includes a filesystem provider for images and videos I was wondering if there was a way to synchronize a folder in the website with a designated album? I mean if there isn't one I can always do it programmatically, just thought I'd check first :-)

Posted by Community Admin on 22-Aug-2011 00:00

Hi Tony,

Unfortunately there is no out-of-the-box way to do this yet, but here's a sample code you can drop in a page in your site, that might be useful to start from:

using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Configuration;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Libraries.Model;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Libraries;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Libraries.Configuration;

...

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

var physicalPath = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/Images");

Sitefinity.Samples.Libraries.CreateAlbumAndUploadImages(physicalPath, "Imported Images", "FileSystem");

private static void CreateAlbumAndUploadImages(string rootFolderPath, string albumTitle = null, string blobStorageProvider = null)

DirectoryInfo rootFolder = new DirectoryInfo(rootFolderPath);

if (!rootFolder.Exists)

throw new ApplicationException(string.Format("A folder with path '0' does not exist", rootFolder.FullName));

albumTitle = albumTitle ?? rootFolder.Name;

blobStorageProvider = blobStorageProvider ?? Config.Get<LibrariesConfig>().BlobStorage.DefaultProvider;

var manager = LibrariesManager.GetManager();

var albumName = albumTitle.ToLower().Replace(' ', '_');

if (manager.GetAlbums().Where(i => i.UrlName == albumName).Any())

throw new ApplicationException(string.Format("An album with UrlName '0' already exists", albumName));

var album = manager.CreateAlbum();

album.Title = albumTitle;

album.UrlName = albumName;

// Set blob storage provider for this album

// Currently available blob storage providers can be found in Config.Get<LibrariesConfig>().BlobStorage.Providers

// or BlobStorageManager.ProvidersCollection

album.BlobStorageProvider = blobStorageProvider;

manager.RecompileItemUrls<Album>(album);

foreach (var file in rootFolder.GetFiles())

var image = manager.CreateImage();

var extension = file.Extension;

var title = file.Name;

if (extension.Length > 0)

title = title.Substring(0, title.Length - extension.Length);

image.Parent = album;

image.Title = title;

image.UrlName = title.ToLower().Replace(' ', '-');

manager.RecompileItemUrls<Telerik.Sitefinity.Libraries.Model.Image>(image);

using (var fileStream = file.OpenRead())

manager.Upload(image, fileStream, file.Extension);

manager.Publish(image);

manager.SaveChanges();

All the best,
Radoslav Atanasov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 22-Aug-2011 00:00

Hi Tony,

I spotted a copy/paste mistake in the code. In the Button1_Click handler, the call to the CreateAlbumAndUploadImages method shouldn't specify a namespace:

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

var physicalPath = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/Images");

Sitefinity.Samples.Libraries.CreateAlbumAndUploadImages(physicalPath, "Imported Images", "FileSystem");

Kind regards,
Radoslav Atanasov
the Telerik team

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