Newb: Bulk upload suddenly not available

I noticed the same problem and then discovered why it had disappeared.

My all powerful role could see it, but not any other users. I also noticed that the old permission for lightning media bulk upload was removed, so I took a closer look at the module's routing file. I saw that it now requires the user to have both "create media" and "dropzone upload files" permissions.

This is no good for us because we do not want to necessarily grant general "create media" permissions to all users. Yet we still want those users to be able to bulk upload media for the types they do have permission to create. The old permission did the trick nicely for this.

I can see the value in having a more robust permission check, but I think it needs to have a permission handler function, rather than just a list of permissions, so that it can check for all the individual media type create permissions as well as the general "create media". If I can come up with a patch to take care of that I'll submit it when I have time.

By the way, I think a fix for this will go very nicely alongside a solution to https://www.drupal.org/project/lightning_media/issues/3097516 ✨ Bulk media upload should have an option to select the target media entity bundle Needs work .

Ok, it seems I may have misunderstood what changed, as looking back it seems the bulk upload has always needed the "create media" and "dropzone upload files" permission combo. I'll have to dig around a little bit more, it seems.