Now the module provides autocomplete search just using file names. It would be good to search also by the file description if using CCK filefield and if the file name is overriden by user using the description option.

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#5 filefield_sources.patch3.7 KBnor4a
#3 filefield_sources.patch3.66 KBnor4a
#2 filefield_sources.patch3.46 KBnor4a

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Unfortunately this is nearly impossible because the description for a file is not stored in the "files" database table. The description is stored by CCK, and in any number of different tables depending on which content type the file was originally uploaded into.

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new filefield_sources.patch3.46 KB

This is not so complicated.
A bit of coding and the patch is made to do the job for "Reference existing" option.

Hope to see this in the next release :)

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new filefield_sources.patch3.66 KB

In the new path fixed small search issue when searching by description.

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Status: Active » Needs work

Thanks for the patch. I hadn't realized that we're already querying every in individual field already. This patch looks good but it could use some cleanup to following coding standards (http://drupal.org/coding-standards).

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nor4a commented
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new filefield_sources.patch3.7 KB

Yes - there were some Coder issues - fixed in the attached patch.

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Component: Code » General

This issue already handles most of #837894: Reuse existing metadata, it'd probably be wise of us to go ahead and make this support other properties besides description (such as alt and title).

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Any news on this issue?

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Status: Needs review » Needs work

At this point I'm not sure about this patch, we'll need to port it to Drupal 7 and see if the same functionality is reasonable there.

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Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-1.x-dev
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D6 is no longer supported, so moving this forward.