I was wondering if people might give me their views on the best way to structure the Media Library in Umbraco for a devolved editorship model please?
I thought that I should probably group a project's documents and images under a "programmes" folder that editors would be able to edit. I'd then set the programme page as the start node.
However, what happens if I wanted to show them a folder with a generic set of images that exists at the top of the media library that anyone can use? In that case they wouldn't be able to "see" it because the start node is set below it?
In the past I worked at a place where they moved from a core team of editors to a devolved model of over 100 and found this to be a useful solution to manage media. It depends on your requirements.
uMediaSync implemented an automatic one-way synchronization between content and media nodes within the CMS Umbraco backend.
In addition to the features of uMediaSync, it adds:
Create media folders retrospectively for pages which existed before
Escc.Umbraco.MediaSync was installed.
Delete the related media folders from the media recycle bin when the
content recycle bin is emptied.
When a page is deleted, and its media folder contains files that are
also used by other pages, those files are moved to the media folder
for one of the other pages.
An extra option to decide, when copying a media folder tree with a
page, whether also to copy the files contained in its folders. The
copied page still refers to the original files, so it may not be
helpful to make copies.
When a page is copied, it is not automatically published. This
replicates how Umbraco works by default.
When modifying Umbraco content from an Umbraco Web API, supports
getting the userId from uMediaSync.config instead of using the
identify of the current user.
An property editor assigned to an extra property on the Image and
File media types to show where the media item is used.
You might also want to checkout Multi Start Nodes project. I believe HQ might be doing something similar in verison 7.7.0. This should solve your problem.
Media Library Structure - advice please.....
Hi
I was wondering if people might give me their views on the best way to structure the Media Library in Umbraco for a devolved editorship model please?
I thought that I should probably group a project's documents and images under a "programmes" folder that editors would be able to edit. I'd then set the programme page as the start node.
However, what happens if I wanted to show them a folder with a generic set of images that exists at the top of the media library that anyone can use? In that case they wouldn't be able to "see" it because the start node is set below it?
Am I miusunderstanding?
Thanks Graham
Hi Graham,
In the past I worked at a place where they moved from a core team of editors to a devolved model of over 100 and found this to be a useful solution to manage media. It depends on your requirements.
https://github.com/east-sussex-county-council/Escc.Umbraco.MediaSync
It extends uMediaSync
uMediaSync implemented an automatic one-way synchronization between content and media nodes within the CMS Umbraco backend.
In addition to the features of uMediaSync, it adds:
You might also want to checkout Multi Start Nodes project. I believe HQ might be doing something similar in verison 7.7.0. This should solve your problem.
https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/multiple-start-nodes/
Good luck,
Dave
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