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  • steschu 88 posts 489 karma points
    Sep 27, 2018 @ 14:05
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    Media Types add as child?

    Hi,

    In the Media Types folder there are by default three Media Types: File, Image, Folder.

    You can create custom Media Types in that folder and inherit properties/tabs via 'Compositions' from other Media Types. That's clear.

    But you can also click a Media Type, then click "create" - a new Media Type will be created as a child of it.

    Can anybody tell me if there is a functionality behind that? It makes sense to me to be able to add a Media Type in a Folder that I created. But creating a Media Typ in another?

    Cheers, Stephan

  • steschu 88 posts 489 karma points
    Oct 04, 2018 @ 13:51
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    Can anybody help?

  • Paul Seal 524 posts 2889 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Oct 04, 2018 @ 22:39
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    Hi Stephen

    I believe if you create a media type as a child of another, you will inherit all of the attributes of the parent media type, using inheritance like we used to do with document types.

    Kind regards

    Paul

  • steschu 88 posts 489 karma points
    Oct 05, 2018 @ 11:56
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    Hi Paul,

    Thanks for your reply.

    Yes that makes sense, but here's something rotten.

    When I create a document type under an existing type it indeed inherits all properties (obviously visible when you open it - you can see all props from the parent type marked as "inherited from Parent").

    When I do the same with a media type, the child media type is completely empty, no props from he parent are displayed. When I upload a file as this media type there are also no props available.

    So I think, either this is not implemented yet or it is a bug.

    Kind regards, Stephan

  • steschu 88 posts 489 karma points
    Oct 05, 2018 @ 14:23
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    addendum: I inspected the generated models .cs code file. Indeed the child media type is inherited from the parent, e.g.:

    public partial class MYimage : Image
    

    So I think, programmatically I can use the inherited properties, but in the backend there seems to be no possibility to set the inherited props.

    Stephan

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