Option to avoid alt field allowing batching of updates

Created on 17 December 2024, 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Perhaps an option to use the file name as an alt field and batch create media files for all existing image files in one swell foop

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

1.0

Component

Code

Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States fkelly

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  • Issue created by @fkelly
  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States fkelly

    Coming from the Juicebox module for slideshows where jpg files for images where ftp'd to sites/files/... directories that were built to contain juicebox galleries (lists of jpg files) and an xml file with a list of slideshow options went along with the jpg files. The xml file was used by an external javascript program to present the galleries. The combined xml file and jpg's were embedded in a content type item and then a menu item pointed to the resulting "gallery". In my case there are well over a thousand jpgs in over 100 galleries.

    It's pretty apparent that all new slideshow generating software on Drupal is using media rather than plain jpg and xml files. So I need (and have been experimenting with) this file_to_media module to aid in this effort.

    The problem is that the view, while it finds existing files and lists them only allows one media item at a time to be generated. And it requires an alt field to be input for each one. Perhaps worth noting that I understand the accessibility concerns that underlie this requirement, but my galleries are replete with captions that were created and carried forward from the initial Lightroom/Photoshop copies of the carefully curated photos.

    My request is that there be an option to bypass the alt field input requirement and just "batch process" the media field process to create one media field for each pre-existing image file.

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