Field mappings are not very useful when adding a media type because you can't map them to fields that don't exist yet

Problem/Motivation

Media lets you map metadata to fields on the media type, which is pretty cool.

These mappings are presented when you add a media type, which is less helpful, because there aren't fields to map to:

There's a lot of help text about mapping things to entity fields, without actually telling you how you can get some entity fields in the first place. Furthermore, the text says this:

Media can automatically save this metadata information to entity fields, which can be configured below.

That makes it sound like you can configure the entity fields below the text, which is not true. You can't configure entity fields until after you submit the form it's on.

Proposed resolution

• Change the help text?
• Modify the media type creation workflow?
• Other possibilities?

Remaining tasks

TBD

User interface changes

TBD

API changes

Probably not.

Data model changes

None.