Does/should front end image uploading work with CKEditor?

[JayGee]

We're currently working on a site that requires front end editing for the client. We've noticed that you don't seem to be able to use CKEditor for uploading images from the front end - is this normal, a bug or do we have an issue elsewhere?

Initially, the upload seems to work - however inserting an image from the front end CKEditor doesn't seem to add the file to the page's images field as per the normal behaviour when editing in the back end.

What happens instead is that the image seems to get uploaded to the server, and persists in the text area field until the page is next saved in the backend. At which point the image disappears because it is not referenced to any image field. The img tag seems to persist in the text area's source however and therefore shows in the dev tools/inspecter as a broken image link.

Any ideas? We've not noticed this before, but on previous sites we've only used images fields for front end pictures.

[sam13579]

How did you setup the CKeditor for Image?