[TYPO3-english] Adding TIF files to FAL per script (preprocess)

[Bert Hiddink [BENDOO e-work solutions]]

On 05-11-14 12:06, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/11/2014 11:12, Bert Hiddink [BENDOO e-work solutions] wrote:
>> I am facing the scenario that I have to make a 2000 tif images (10-20MB)
>> avaiblable within TYPO3 so these can be added to content elements, news,
>> etc.
>>
>> Is there a way to import these images to the sys_file-tables (FAL) on
>> beforehand by a separate script so that the conversion not has to be
>> done during the first page load?
>
> There are two scheduler tasks available:
> - File Abstraction Layer: Update storage index
> This can be used if changes are possible outside the backend
> (FTP/Remotestorages)
>
> - File Abstraction Layer: Extract metadata in storage
> This update the metadata of files that have been changed since the last run
>
Hi Jigal,

Thanks for your reply...this means that there is no task available for 
importing new TIFs info FAL?

Thanks again!

Regards,
Bert