Media Manager Archive

[Karinne Cyphers]

good to know... we were using mixed case just to make it easier to read the slew of fields that we were working with...

[zoeck]

Is there a planned release Date for the new Version with UIKit Admin Theme support?

I would like to buy the module, but without UIKit support I still have to wait ? 

[kongondo]

5 hours ago, zoeck said:

Is there a planned release Date for the new Version with UIKit Admin Theme support?

I would like to buy the module, but without UIKit support I still have to wait ? 

Hi @zoeck,

Thanks for your interest in Media Manager. I can't give a definite date but it will be in the autumn.

[ampersand83]

Hi, I recently bought the Mediamanager but I am not able to configure tagging of single media files properly. I followed the instructions on https://mediamanager.kongondo.com/documentation/getting-started/enabling-media-tags/ but no matter what option of tagging I choose ("User enters tags by text input", "User selects from list of predefined tags" or "User selects from list of predefined tags + can input their own") only the first option seems to work (entering text by myself). That is not very comfortable for the user and also kind of error prone. Are the other options just not implemented correctly or am I doing something wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

[kongondo]

19 minutes ago, ampersand83 said:

Hi, I recently bought the Mediamanager but I am not able to configure tagging of single media files properly.

Hi @ampersand83,

Many thanks for the purchase. Welcome to the forums as well :-).

Predefined tags in ProcessWire are relatively new. Updating Media Manager to include the feature is planned, although it may not make it in the next (soon) release.

[kongondo]

Just to clarify my post above, @ampersand83, my answer is in reference to bulk adding/editing tags. In the upcoming version, media will be edited in a modal in its original page. Hence, you will be able to use any tags input as normal.

[ampersand83]

On 10/9/2018 at 12:21 PM, kongondo said:

Just to clarify my post above, @ampersand83, my answer is in reference to bulk adding/editing tags. In the upcoming version, media will be edited in a modal in its original page. Hence, you will be able to use any tags input as normal.

Thank you @kongondo  for your quick reply. That sounds nice. I really hope you will be able to release the new version this year. I'm looking forward to hopefully many improvements to that already nice module.

[Nekorin]

Hi,

I'm new to Processwire. I've recently bought and installed Media Manager, and I have a couple of questions.

I've added Media Manager field as part of a fieldgroup which is placed in a Repeater field (for users to specify image sets for the masthead). There's a small bug in which closing the media manager Insert media dialog box will remove the new Repeater row that is added. It doesn't happen to regular images field. I've attached a video below for illustration purposes.

 

Also, is there a way to consolidate all the files under 1 directory? Most of the time we upload the files into 1 directory (example: assets/images ) and upload them through FTP and the content editors add in the files from the same directory.

 

 

 

[kongondo]

Hi @Nekorin,

On 11/7/2018 at 3:57 AM, Nekorin said:

I'm new to Processwire.

Welcome to ProcessWire and the forum ?

On 11/7/2018 at 3:57 AM, Nekorin said:

I've recently bought and installed Media Manager

Many thanks for the purchase.

On 11/7/2018 at 3:57 AM, Nekorin said:

There's a small bug in which closing the media manager Insert media dialog box will remove the new Repeater row that is added.

Thanks for reporting this. I'll have a look. I couldn't see this happening in your illustration video though; must have missed it :-).

On 11/7/2018 at 3:57 AM, Nekorin said:

Also, is there a way to consolidate all the files under 1 directory? Most of the time we upload the files into 1 directory (example: assets/images ) and upload them through FTP and the content editors add in the files from the same directory.

I'm not sure I follow completely. You are able to FTP files into the directory /sites/assets/MediaManager/uploads/. You can then use the scan feature in the uploads dashboard to move the files to the Media Manager library. The main purpose of Media Manager is to create one large, central bucket for all your media. Content editors should then be able to pick any of the images in Media Manager to use in any page. Please let me know if I misunderstood your request.

[Nekorin]

5 hours ago, kongondo said:

Thanks for reporting this. I'll have a look. I couldn't see this happening in your illustration video though; must have missed it :-).

Sorry that the previous video doesn't depict what I was doing correctly and might have caused some confusion. Below is a more accurate representation of what it is about. Basically whenever I add a new row and insert a media element with the media manager, upon closing the media manager dialog window, it 'erases' all the repeater/repeater_matrix rows for the entire page. I'll have to add back all the rows (it kind of makes it a bit annoying to use. Although I can get it to save in the end, I'll have to do it 25 times if the masthead carousel has 5 rotating images). 

 

There is a JS error too when I access media manager or add an image. 

 

5 hours ago, kongondo said:

I'm not sure I follow completely. You are able to FTP files into the directory /sites/assets/MediaManager/uploads/. You can then use the scan feature in the uploads dashboard to move the files to the Media Manager library. The main purpose of Media Manager is to create one large, central bucket for all your media. Content editors should then be able to pick any of the images in Media Manager to use in any page. Please let me know if I misunderstood your request.

Thanks for the tips. What i'm referring to is after scanning, each individual image is placed in its own separate folder with an id as the folder name. Is there any way to keep everything within a single folder after scanning? It is tedious to make changes to images, can't just ftp them in and see the changes reflected immediately on the frontend. 

Does scan have an overwrite existing files function?

[Youbility]

Hey @kongondo,

I just purchased your media manager module, thank you for providing it. As far as I can see it works, but it looks broken with AdminThemeUiKit. When I bought it I was expecting it to look like in the screenshots. Now I don't want to show it to the client like that. Do you have a V12-beta I can use?

Also when I upload mp4 videos I get an error saying "filetype not allowed", although mp4 is in the list of allowed extensions. Is this aknown error?

[kongondo]

Hi @Youbility,

First, please accept my apologies for not getting back to you earlier. I've had some serious computer issues that have set me back a couple of weeks. I hope to be back to 'normal' by the end of this week.

On 11/9/2018 at 11:40 AM, Youbility said:

I just purchased your media manager module, thank you for providing it

Many thanks for your purchase.

 

On 11/9/2018 at 11:40 AM, Youbility said:

When I bought it I was expecting it to look like in the screenshots.

I think you saw the screenshots for the upcoming beta version. Its release has now also been delayed (some unforseen bugs, etc). The current version is not compatible with UIKit. The beta version is not production ready too. 

 

On 11/9/2018 at 11:40 AM, Youbility said:

 Now I don't want to show it to the client like that. Do you have a V12-beta I can use?

This is totally understandable. How would you like to proceed? The beta version may not be out soon. If using an older admin theme, e.g. Reno, is out of the question, then the only option left is not to use Media Manager until the new version is out. I'm happy to offer a refund if you'd rather not wait for the new version. Please do let me know.

Thanks.

[kongondo]

On 11/9/2018 at 2:30 AM, Nekorin said:

a JS error too when I access media manager or add an image. 

Yes. This has been fixed in the upcoming version. The bug had to do with satisfying some ProcessLister requirement.

On 11/9/2018 at 2:30 AM, Nekorin said:

after scanning, each individual image is placed in its own separate folder with an id as the folder name.

Behind the scenes each image is a page in ProcessWire. That's why you see this. The ID is the id of the page with the media.

On 11/9/2018 at 2:30 AM, Nekorin said:

Is there any way to keep everything within a single folder after scanning?

Currently no, but sounds like an idea/feature request to consider. Maybe a checkbox or a pattern to detect if images should be kept together e.g. house-1.jpg, house-2.jpg, etc. The upcoming version of Media Manager allows to add images to an existing media page. 

On 11/9/2018 at 2:30 AM, Nekorin said:

It is tedious to make changes to images,

What sort of changes are these? Changing the images? Cropping? Other?

On 11/9/2018 at 2:30 AM, Nekorin said:

Does scan have an overwrite existing files function?

No. I'll see if I can add this. Yes, it does. it respects your media manager settings. The settings apply across board. Sorry for the erroneous info.

Edited November 24, 2018 by kongondo
Misleading info

[kongondo]

On 11/9/2018 at 11:40 AM, Youbility said:

I get an error saying "filetype not allowed", although mp4 is in the list of allowed extensions. Is this aknown error?

That would only happen if the MIME type of the video is some other format not recognised by the system. Are you able to check the MIME type and let me know? If not, I can send you some code to help.

[Orkun]

Hello @kongondo

 

Our users are getting the error "Empty file upload result" when trying to upload images, documents etc...

 

But the image still gets uploaded successfully.

 

 

After that i checked with Chrome dev tools the ajax response when uploading the placeholder image:

I get this error:

 

I searched for that page "peter-fractures-lac-37499" but only found the page "peter-fractures-lac". But it is a media manager audio page.

 

It looks like the module is trying to create a new mm-audio page called "peter-fractures-lac" but since there is already a page with the same name this error happens.

But the question is why is he trying to create a audio page when I am uploading an image?

 

Processwire Version: 2.7.3 dev

MediaManager Version: 0.0.9

JqueryFileUpload Version: 0.0.2

PHP-Version: 7.0.32

 

Kind Regards

Orkun

[kongondo]

Hi @Orkun,

You say this is happening with all media types you try to upload? That's strange. I think I've experienced this once when Media Manager was not installed properly and every created child (media page) was heading to the first available media parent, and that happens to be 'Audio'. 

• Is this a fresh install? Or has Media Manager on that site been working OK previously?
• Is it possible to have a copy of the images and any non-sensitive documents you are trying to upload so that I can debug?
• Clearing cache several times and deleting the offending 
• Is reinstalling Media Manager and option? Does that help? Any errors?
• We've previously had a similar problem with Imagick but I'm not sure whether that's the case.

By the way, JqueryFileUpload Version: 0.0.2 is a bit outdated :-). Grab the latest version if you can.

 

Thanks.

[Orkun]

Hi @kongondo

Sorry for my late answer. I could resolve the issue with renaming the audio pagename from "peter-fractures-lac" to "peter-fractures-lac-old" after I have done that somehow a new page was generated automatically called "peter-fractures-lac" with the same audio file like the "old" page ("peter-fractures-lac-old"). From now on I could upload images documents etc... and it worked fine. The Error "Empty file upload result" doesn't come anymore. I also removed now the new generated audio page and renamed "peter-fractures-lac-old" back to "peter-fractures-lac" and everything still works fine. Very strange behavior.

Quote

Is this a fresh install? Or has Media Manager on that site been working OK previously?

- It was working OK previously

 

Quote

By the way, JqueryFileUpload Version: 0.0.2 is a bit outdated :-). Grab the latest version if you can.

I upgraded to 0.0.6 now. Thanks.

 

Kind Regards
Orkun

[xportde]

Hi @kongondo,

I have a proposal for a future version of MediaManager: There are other CMS, where you can preset a internal or external link for each media object. Would this be a useful feature in MediaManager, too?

Greetings,

Thomas.

[kongondo]

1 hour ago, xportde said:

There are other CMS, where you can preset a internal or external link for each media object. Would this be a useful feature in MediaManager, too?

Hi @xportde,

It would be and it doesn't need to wait for the future. It is already here ?. With the new version (announcement imminent), you can add as many fields as you want to your respective Media Manager templates. Let's say you want a URL for your images. All you would need is to:

1. Add a URL field (in this example, called link) to the Media Manager image template (media-manager-image). 
2. If not accessing your Media Manager Library directly, create a Media Manager Field (let's call it albums) and add it to your page's template, say basic-page. In the Media Manager Field (albums) settings, enable 'Allow users to edit selected media'. 
3. Edit a page using basic-page template.
4. Add images to the field 
5. Hover over an image and click the Edit link. 
6. Edit your link field to add your URL. 
7. In your template file, you can access your URL like this:

 

$albums = $page->albums;
$out = '<div>';
$out .= $albums->each(function($m) {
    if($m->typeLabel !='image') return;
    $thumb = $m->media->height(260);
    $img = "<img src='{$thumb->url}' alt='{$m->media->description}' height='130'>";
    $o = "<div><a href='$m->links'>$img</a></div>";
    return $o;
  });
$out .= '</div>';

// OR: Using foreach
/*
$out = '<div>';
foreach ($albums as $a) {
    if($m->typeLabel !='image') return;
    $thumb = $m->media->height(260);
    $img = "<img src='{$thumb->url}' alt='{$m->media->description}' height='130'>";
    $out .= "<div><a href='$m->links'>$img</a></div>";
    $out .= $m->body;
}

$out .= '</div>';
*/
echo $out;

 

And that's it. Any field you add to your Media Manager template is available as $m->name_of_field, where $m is an instance of MediaManager field as per the example above. More examples in my next (eventual) post(s).

I tried to make a video, or an animated GIF, even a simple screen capture to show you what I mean but everything failed! Lots of artefacts, etc. I've recently moved to Linux, so still finding my way round. 

 

[kongondo]

Beta testers needed ?. Please send me a PM if you'd like to help. An active subscription/current license is required.

I'm happy (and frankly relieved ?) to announce Media Manager v 012 is ready for beta testing. Please accept my apologies for the delay. 

 

With this version:

1. Only ProcessWire 3.x (preferably the latest master) is supported from now on.
2. Currently, only AdminThemeUiKit is supported. (we may support Reno theme in the future).

 

Changelog

 

ProcessMediaManager (Media Manager Library/back-end)

1. New UI: Responsive and closely matches ProcessWire theme (UiKit)

2. Media thumbs shown in their natural orientation

3. Upload Anywhere: Upload directly to Media Manager Library using drag and drop

4. New edit media page in modal (natural ProcessWire page) (respects locked status and Media Manager edit permission if present)

5. Create image variations in natural ProcessWire page during editing

6. Add, edit, display and access custom ‘columns’ (fields) added to media manager templates (e.g. add text field to media-manager-image and access value using Media Manager API)

7. Hide media types menu items if media type not in use

8. Global setting for allowed media types (e.g. image and video only)

9. Hide ‘All’ menu item

10. New filters dashboard

11. Updated and freshened up upload’s dashboard

12. Option to upload ZIP archives as is (to save as documents) vs. to decompress them (recursively)

13. Preview PDF documents in ‘gallery mode’ (if browser supports it)

14. Selection of media is now identical to how images thumbs are selected in ProcessWire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FieldtypeMediaManager

1. Enable Upload Anywhere (for InputfieldMediaManager use)

2. Allow users to edit media displayed in a Media Manager Inputfield

3. Change whether to use text or icons for action ‘buttons’

4. Custom fields: Display and edit ‘columns’ (fields) added to media manager templates

 

 

 

InputfieldMediaManager

1. New UI: Responsive and closely matches ProcessWire theme (UiKit)

2. Media thumbs shown in their natural orientation

3. Upload Anywhere: Upload directly to Media Manager Library using drag and drop AND simultaneously insert into the Media Manager field on the page being edited

4. Inputfield Media Manager markup updated/refreshed using Ajax when media is added or edited. No need for a page reload (so you won’t lose unsaved changes on the page)

5. New edit media page in modal (natural ProcessWire page) (respects locked status and Media Manager edit permission if present)

6. If a media in a Media Manager Inputfield is unpublished or trashed, it is automatically removed from all Media Manager Inputfields present on the page (including its variations) and the fields refreshed using Ajax

7. View values of custom columns (not all Fieldtypes supported for viewing although all supported for accessing using the API). These are refreshed on the Inputfield using Ajax once editing is complete.

8. Better support for repeaters

9. Preview PDF documents in ‘gallery mode’ (if browser supports it)

10. Selection of media is now identical to how images thumbs are selected in ProcessWire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting image variations

 

 

Media Manager API (working in the front-end and manipulation via the API)

1. Access media in a Media Manager field on a given page (see examples below)

In the example below, we access custom fields (columns) added to the image media template (media-manager-image). In this case, two fields have been added. A URL field named links and a text field called headline. You can add any field you want. Please note though that not all fields can be displayed in the backend (for practicality). In the frontend, there are no such restrictions and you can access any of the fields as shown below. Your MediaManager object gives you access to the fields. For instance:

$m->name_of_your_field. 
Below, we have 
$m->links and $m->headline.

 

Please note that $m->media still returns the first media in the MediaManager object. In case you have added more than one media to your media field, e.g. more than one image added to one MediaManager object (done via editing a Media), you can access all of them using:

$m->mediaField;

In the case of image media, $m->mediaField returns a Pageimages object which can be iterated. This assumes, of course, that your media_manager_image field accepts more than one image (the default).

The default setting for number of files accepted for other media types is 1, hence $m->mediaField returns a Pagefile object. You can edit these fields (media_manager_audio, media_manager_document and media_manager_video) to accept multiple files is you wish, in which case $m->mediaField will return a Pagefiles object which you can loop through, access using first(), last(), eq(n), etc.

 

// get the media manager field on the page
$mediaContent = $page->media_manager_tests;

$tbody = '<tbody>';
$tbody .= $mediaContent->each(function($m) {
    if($m->typeLabel !='image') return;
	$thumb = $m->media->height(130);
    $img = "<img src='{$thumb->url}' alt='{$m->media->description}' height='130'>";
	$tds =
		"<td>$img</td>" .
		"<td>{$m->headline}</td>" .
		"<td><a href='{$m->links}'>{$m->title}</a></td>";

	$row = "<tr>{$tds}</tr>";
    return $row;
});
$tbody .= '</tbody>';

$content .=
	"<div class='uk-overflow-auto uk-width-1-1'>".
		"<table id='news-outlets' role='presentation' class='uk-table uk-table-divider uk-table-hover uk-table-justify uk-table uk-table-middle uk-table-responsive'>".
			"<thead>" .
				"<tr>" .
					"<th class='uk-width-small'>Preview</th>" .
					"<th class='uk-table-expand'>Summary</th>" .
					"<th class='uk-width-medium'>Link</th>" .
				"</tr>" .
			"</thead>" .
			"{$tbody}".
	"</table></div>";

 

Output of the above code

 

 

 

[besrwordt]

Hi,

i have trouble getting images resized in the listerPro module from Ryan. He asks if the MediaManager module implements the markupValue() method?!

To clarify in The listerPro module can list fields such as images of records. in order to produce a nice list / table it can resize the images on the fly ... thumbnails of 80x80 or what ever setting you whish.

In my setup this is not working (mediamanager field, single instance, only image allowed) and Ryan suggests the markupValue() is probably not implemented.

I my self thought there might be an abstraction depth problem as on the normal imagefield one interacts with the field. In the mediamanager one interacts with the $field->media object ... one level down ...

[kongondo]

Hi @besrwordt,

Welcome to the forums. 

12 hours ago, besrwordt said:

He asks if the MediaManager module implements the markupValue() method?

Currently, no.

12 hours ago, besrwordt said:

In my setup this is not working (mediamanager field, single instance, only image allowed) and Ryan suggests the markupValue() is probably not implemented.

I'll look into this. What versions of MM and PW are you using?

[besrwordt]

11 minutes ago, kongondo said:

Hi @besrwordt,

Welcome to the forums. 

Currently, no.

I'll look into this. What versions of MM and PW are you using?

Hi @kongondo, PW is 3.0.98 MM is 0.1.1 and ListerPro is 1.1.1

Thanks!

[besrwordt]

@kongondo Another thing: how would i go about to merge 2 mediamanager fields via API... if i add the media from one field to another i get the Class 'MediaManagerArray' doesn't yet implement method 'makeBlankItem() error ...

            foreach ($page->mm-field->media as $t-media ){
                $_another_mmmedia_field.=$t-media;
            }

...

 

[kongondo]

@besrwordt,

Do you have a current Media Manager subscription? makeBlankItem() is implemented in the latest Media Manager (version 012, soon coming out of beta). However, you can still import from one MM field to another. A MM field behaves like PageArrays (WireArrays). 

 

A Media Manager field stores only two pieces of data; the (page) ID of the media being referenced and the media type (1=audio; 2=document; 3=image; 4=video; 3x=image variation). There's two ways you can go about exporting/importing from one field to the other. The second way is easiest if you need to import everything from one field to another, no questions asked. The first method allows fine control, e.g. if you want to skip certain media types. In the examples below, media_export is the Media Manager field with the media you want to copy over/merge with a second Media Manager field. media_import is the second Media Manager field into which media is being imported/copied over.

Method One: Loop through each media in the Media Manager field you are exporting from

// page with mm field we are importing into (media_import)
$p = $pages->get(1234);

// page with mm field we are exporting from (media_export)
foreach ($page->media_export as $m ) {
    // @note: here you can skip media you don't want to export
    // instance of new MediaManager()
    $mm = new MediaManager();
    // populate the MediaManager object properties with required data (media id and type)
    $mm->id = $m->id;
    $mm->type = $m->type;
    // import/add the media to the 2nd mm field (media_import)
    $p->media_import->add($mm);
}

// output formatting of
$p->of(false);
// save only the media manager field (page with import mm field)
$p->save('media_import');
// revert output formatting back on
$p->of(true);

 

Method Two: Import everything at once

// page with mm field we are importing into (media_import)
$p = $pages->get(1234);
// import all the media in the 1st mm field (media_export) into the 2nd mm field (media_import)
$p->media_import->import($page->media_export);
// output formatting of
$p->of(false);
// save only the media manager field (page with import mm field)
$p->save('media_import');
// revert output formatting back on
$p->of(true);

 

Note that all WireArray behaviour apply. For instance, you might want to first experiment in cases where your 2nd Media Manager field (media_import) already has some media which may or may not be present in the first Media Manager field.