Trying to understand some fundamentals

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stephen Piscura's picture

I’m an intermediate Drupal user at best and i am certainly not a developer. I’m trying to get a handle on Drupal 7’s media handling and file structure. If this is not the appropriate place to post this question, any help in directing me to the right place would be very helpful.

Let me start with some general questions and then maybe i’ll be able to articulate some questions about specific uses of the module.

  1. What precisely is a media asset? That is, it’s neither a node, nor a taxonomy term, comment, etc. So what is it? A new entity? Is its proper name “media asset”? Will it find its way into things like the “Terminology” page?
  2. How do/will media assets relate to Taxonomy? That is, it is possible to assign terms to media, but are/will media assets be searchable and discoverable like nodes?
  3. How do/will media assets relate to URL aliases? That is, can the option to apply replacement patterns to media assets be expected, the same way replacement patterns are applied to content paths, taxonomy term paths and user paths? Is this simply an issue for the Pathauto/Token modules?

To the extent that i understand Media module, it seems like it could have some too-good-to-be true uses, but i want to make sure i’m actually getting it and not just sticking my amateur nose where it doesn’t belong. Thanks for any insight!

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I can only agree with your

mattab's picture

I can only agree with your questions. As a new Drupal user, I find that it's quite hard to find good docs explaining concepts and then how to, it is hard to plan ahead a site architecture without changing it many times as new plugins are discovered... Hopefully will grasp the full picture soon

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