The Ajax file field is very interesting for me.
However on a site already running I have been using an image type field for users to upload an image. Now I see that this field has a special renaming scheme for the uploaded images and uses the regular images/comprofiler folder.

Now I wonder if a change is possible at all to switch from the image field to the Ajax field type. If I install the new field type and change the field type value in the database will:

- The already existing images still be accessible?
- New images be uploaded into the same folder like the already exising images?
- Will new images use the same renaming scheme?

I am aware that I would need to be a documentation subscriber which I would gladly become if the field switching will work. However I wonder if there are discounts available for the many many suggestions I have already made for the CB 2.0 version. Maybe you wanna think about it.

Thanks for your reply. I hope it is a misunderstanding: I am talking about the Ajax file field type.
Do I understand your reply correctly, that the image would not get displayed the same way it gets displayed with the current image type field?
In which way does it get displayed then? And as it is a file upload field, what is the use for this then?

Edit:
I found following statement from you here: www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/func,view/catid,114/id,135684/

the File fieldtype plugin stores uploads to is images/comprofiler/plug_cbfilefield/USER_ID

Let me state again what is the case:
I am using an image fieldtype for users uploading pictures. The images get stored in /images/comprofiler and renamed to something like cb_fieldname_jdue93jf99e.jpg.

Now how would it be possible to change this field to the Ajax field type and keeping the images that have been uploaded already and are obviously in the wrong directory for the new fieldtype.

If they are stored here [code:1]/images/comprofiler [/code:1] but after the change the plugin would be looking in there [code:1]images/comprofiler/plug_cbfilefield/USER_ID[/code:1]
how could this ever be working?

Post edited by: KatoKalin, at: 2010/07/27 14:04

I don't understand what you're trying to ask.

Yeah. Because you are talking about the Ajax text field, while I am talking about the Ajax file field, which is described in this article: www.joomlapolis.com/content/view/8109/1/

I do believe I am in the correct section to ask this question regarding this plugin.