By evrk on

I've installed the media module and am following through documentation (http://drupal.org/node/703336).

The documentation states
"Adding Media Fields

You can add fields to a piece of media - like a caption for images. This is just like you add fields to a node.

Click 'Manage Fields' next to Image, taking you to (admin/config/media/types/image/fields). This screen allows you to add new fields to Image type media. For instance, you might have a textfield for Photo Source, or a checkbox to demark whether an image is a photograph of an animal."

I've added "Author" fields to all of the media types (audio, video, image, other) and have set them to display as default.

When I upload any sort of media (using the file widget or the media selector widget) there is no additional "author" field to fill out.

Is there a reason this field wouldn't show up on the Edit page? I've been trying to make this work for hours and it might be something simple but I can't seem to figure it out.

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clicchick commented

+1 I've also been trying to figure this out! I even set a default value for the field (in my case, I used "Caption), but not even that will show up when I try to view the node.

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clicchick commented

Go to this screen: admin/content/media

It lists all your uploaded media with an 'edit' link that lets you edit your custom media fields. I don't know if it's possible to do this straight from the 'edit page' though.

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evrk commented

Strange, but thanks! Is that the only way to edit the custom fields? It seems like it would make sense to be able to add this info while uploading the files to an individual node.

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gumdal commented

Is there any other way to show the caption on images. I dont see that the authenticated user has enough privileges to add captions for the uploaded images by going into admin>content>media.

What is the simple solution for this?

Thanks!

Raj Pawan G

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maclore commented

Is this the solution to Drupal caption difficulty? I hope this works for captions. I have installed the media module. All I want to be able to do is to add captions when uploading an image. Is there a way out? Please help!

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arrubiu commented

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tom.camp commented

I am migrating from a D6 site with 6k+ image nodes with photo credit and caption. I had hoped that I would be able to migrate those fields into the Media image type additional fields, but it doesn't seem to work that way. It is also a bit unwieldy to add them manually after uploading an image. From a users perspective it makes no sense to create a piece of content, add an image and then, after creating this piece of content, go to the content admin screen, click on Media, find the image that you just uploaded and then add the additional fields. Maybe my users are just lazy, but I'm pretty sure that they won't do this.

Another side of this is that the fields don't display when you add the image through a wysiwyg. I have set the fields to display for all the presets, but they don't show up when a user adds the images. The goal was that users add images by whatever means, as an image node or by adding them to a piece of content using the wysiwyg and Media. However they upload the image, they are prompted to add the photo credit and caption and where ever this content is displayed, it would be displayed with the photo credit and the caption, at the least with the photo credit. It is beginning to look like this is going to require quite a bit of custom programming.

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jeeba commented

Yes, that's should really help alot of people using this module. I almost finished a webpage in Drupal 6 but I need to select some images to appear in a Portafolio. Its almost impossible with views to do this.

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that0n3guy commented

You could simulate something like this with http://drupal.org/project/field_collection I think.