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Add resource by URL

Balaji Srinivasan
suggested this on August 22, 2011 04:45 pm

Sliderocket is great. However, to add a new image from the web, you currently need to do the following:

  1. download your image locally
  2. add a picture object
  3. click that object
  4. upload your picture to the media folder
  5. find and select this picture

It would therefore be extremely convenient if you could provide a feature to add by URL in addition to uploading from a local computer. It could work like this:

  1. add a picture object
  2. click it and choose "add by URL" ("add from Media library" is also an option)
  3. paste in your URL
  4. now the image appears, and in the background is also added to your Media library in an auto-generated folder of the same name as the current presentation

This would go a long way towards making editing as easy as in Powerpoint/Keynote.
 

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J B

Sorry for typo above [ correction] "It's truly unfortunate that while as great as I think SlideRocket is, it still lacks this essential feature.

Guess I can't edit a comment once it's posted. 

Thnx again, - Joe B.

November 06, 2011 03:33 pm
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J B

This would be awesome for any resource: pix, docs, videos,audio. Those of us using Amazon S3 or CDNs for handling our (large media rich/server intensive) content need this ability built-in. It's truly unfortunate that while as great as I think SlideRocket is, lit still acks this essential feature. Big bummer, since it's fairly standard in many other "rich media" platforms and is even the free presentation service at www.280slides.com (see attached). So hopefully it can become less of a feature request and more of a priority in the immediate future. Fingers crossed but until then, unfortunately, I need to stay with the free account (or use alternate solutions) until I can use all my S3 media at will. :(

-thnx guys and still love the platform 

 

 

November 06, 2011 03:28 pm
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