Image Upload Column for SharePoint

Microsoft Sharepoint is a widely known platform for sharing resources and information in an enterprise network, commonly through web platform. The list item forms in Sharepoint services are used to modify and display individual items in a Sharepoint lists. For proper presentation of these individual items, you may wish to insert an appropriate image in the columns relevant to the items. The default procedure for doing this is not that simple and requires you to define the web URL for the respective image associated with the specific lists. Needless to say, it eventually ends up consuming a lot of potentially productive time. In such a case, you may wish to have a functionality which can perform the whole function simply and directly. Image Upload Column for SharePoint v.1.71 is such an application for this purpose.

Image Upload Column for SharePoint v.1.71 by ArtfulBits Inc. is a shareware program for directly uploading and displaying pictures for respective list items in an efficient manner. With this application, the whole process of associating an image just includes browsing a specific image in its image selecting dialog box and selecting it in order to upload it directly. Thus the whole process becomes as simple as uploading profile image on a popular social networking website. Apart from this, the program also comes with a number of customization features available for uploading images. You can use any alternative text for the image rather than the default text and can easily filter the extensions of the image file using some predefined or customized extensions. The uploading process in not limited to only picture library, thus facilitating the image attachment with any list item. The appearance of the image can be modified with its simple functions and even display the image as a link.

Image Upload Column for SharePoint v.1.71 is, overall, a useful program with which you can save a lot of time and hassles in associating images with list items. Hence, it receives a rating of three and a half out of five.

Image Upload component is intended to upload and display pictures for list item. It provides ability to directly select a picture in file browsing dialog, upload and display it in the list view.
Component provides quick mechanism of manipulating picture upload, edit and delete actions. It is possible to setup filtering using predefined or custom extentions.
Features:
- Direct image uploading
- Image description support (used as alternative text for the picture)
- File extensions filtering (predefined and custom extentions supported)
- Ability to upload files on any type (documents, archives and others)
- Support any type of SharePoint list (not only Picture Library)
- Image thumbnails for list views
- Resize large images after upload
- Images stored in separate internal list subfolder (no conflict with attachments)
- Customizing image appearance in list view and item Edit/display forms (specifying image size, limiting image size, displaying image as a link)
- Language pack support (desired localization could be added by request)
Why ArtfulBits Image Upload Column?
Default process of associating an image with a list item in SharePoint is not so obvious and comfortable. Default WSS 3.0 "Hyperlink or Picture" column does not allow uploading images via browsing and requires you to set the url of the image already existing on the site. In order to associate images with some item in a list in MOOS 2007 user should create the separate picture list and then set the url of certain image to picture column via the modal dialog.
Artfulbits Image Upload Column provides you with easier and flexible way to do this. Image Upload column allows the user to browse their local computer for image of interest. Once the image is selected, column will automatically upload the image and link it to the item.