I would like to see the new edit functionality (which btw is great) appear in the edit node view as a possible operation on file/image fields and not only at admin/content/file (which could use some filtering options to find the file of interrest). Right now the only option is to remove the file. Adding a second option to edit the file directly from here seems to be the right place.

A further enhancement would be the possibility to mak a view of files and add a edit link to the file like it is possible to add a edit link to content. This way we will be able to make custom file views with the new edit function.
Thanks for the great edit functionality but pimping it up a little would help to make it easier to use.
grossmann-mcs

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Version: 7.x-2.0-unstable6 » 7.x-2.x-dev

This Edit functionality is provided by the Media module and its field widget for file and image fields. Leaving open to seeing if we can possibly modify the widgets provided by core.

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Title: Add new "edit" functionality appear on the node and as a views field » Allow files to be edited from the core file and image field widgets
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grossmann commented

I really would like to see this added to file entity functionality as there would be no need for the media module if you just want simple image/file replacement. Together with a custom views list this would be enough for most of the projects without the heavy lifted media module.

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Jackinloadup commented

Well grossmann-mcs makes a good point that the edit functionality doesn't contain anything relating to Media. It simply shows information file_entity already provides in a more convient way. Not unlike convenience of #1667486: Contextual Links in File Entity. Which btw thank you Dave!

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+1
Media module is too much module for most of my sites.
Even contextual links on the node form -- like those on file display -- would be sufficient.

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molenick commented

+1

Ideally, it would be functionally similar to how alt/title tags work on an image field. Having this work w/ multifile upload would be awesome, but... we're not there yet. :)

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devin carlson commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

I believe that this is a duplicate of #1422632: Embedded file entity forms.