The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Hi, I needed to add descriptions for media files on upload (similar to tags but a simple textfield), so here's a patch that works for my purposes. Untested on batch imports & browser filtering.
Should the description be saved in $file->description?
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| media_browser_plus.description.patch | 6.62 KB | bgilhome |
Comments
Comment #1
brentratliff commentedIf you don't want to have to track your patched version while continuing to upgrade, you can do all that in hook_FORM_ID_alter in a custom module. I did the same thing for a client.
Comment #2
Jackinloadup commentedThis is possible now with the latest code from Media 2.x and File_entity 2.x
Using the file_entity module you can add any fields to a file type like a description field.
After uploading a file you will be taken to the field edit screen with the latest dev releases.
This has been finished in #1426730: Automatically open the file edit modal after uploading a file
It's committed and will be in the next release of the Media 2.x branch.
If you want it now install Media 2.x-dev
Comment #3
brentratliff commentedThis is a separate issue. That patch applies a field to all uploaded entities in the same manner as the tags are assigned. It has the same effect for single file uploads but for multi-file uploads it opens a multi-form where you have to fill in the field for each individual entity. Right now, you still have to do this in a custom module to apply to all.
Comment #4
das-peter commentedFrom my perspective I don't think we should add this to the media browser plus module. At least not in such a non-generic way.
I really would like to add more of the media browser plus features to the media module itself and making this module obsolete.
Comment #5
Jackinloadup commented+1 for #4 das-peter
Comment #6
pglynn commented@brentratliff
Came across this after digging through the issues and forums for the Media Browser Plus module and I was wondering how you accomplished this with a custom module. I'm trying to do a similar thing (I need to add 6 different sets of tags to the image file type) and I've got the fields in there, but every time I upload a new file the tags aren't being saved. Do you think you could provide some code that would achieve this in a module?
Comment #7
brentratliff commented@pglynn, I haven't looked at this in a while but check out the code here: http://drupal.org/sandbox/brentratliff/1592862. There were some enhancements to File Entity since I last looked at it so I'm not sure if my module will work anymore. I handed that project over.
Comment #8
salvis