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Adding/selecting media for content

  • On a relatively big media site, which is built on Drupal 7, we use Media 7.x-1.0-rc3. On articles we use Media's "Multimedia asset" field, which gave us the best approximation of what we needed. We had a special feature request about asset's title and description. "Centralized" storage of this data was not acceptable for our editorial team, since they wanted to override this on node context. In addition to title and description fields on file entity we added storage of the same data on field level, which we save in field's data column. When an editor adds an asset to a node, we copy global data to textfields on node level which can be overrided.

  • Another modification, which we implemeted, are filters on media library popup. Code itself is based on Media browser plus "folders branch". Our patch for filters is available in a sandbox.

    Only local images are allowed.

    Site has an edtorial team of ~20 relatively demanding journalists, that create ~50 articles a day. Site has ~6M impressions and ~300K unique visitors per month. Until now there were almost no complains about described workflow.

    Added by: slashrsm

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  • Managing the media/file library

  • On a media site (described in section above) we use Media browser plus "folders branch" for managing the media. Default library was not an option for us, since it is not really user-friendly (it will work for tens of items, but will definitely for tens of thousands). Since the code was pretty unstable when we started to work on, we had to patch it a bit, but it is basically what you find on d.o. (and was found on author github repo before).



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    Just out of interest. Do you

    yautja_cetanu's picture

    Just out of interest. Do you think the Media 2 Views Library is better then this and will make this deprecated? Or do you think it has advantages over even that?

    I don't know what is the

    slashrsm's picture

    I don't know what is the current state of Views implementation in Media 2.x, but once it is stable it is deinitely much more flexible than any other custom solution.

    At the time when we started using Media (a good year ago), there was no Views support, so we found this solution the best available at the time.

    Janez Urevc - software engineer @ Examiner.com - @slashrsm - janezurevc.name

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