Hi Jay,

You can make this kind of restriction using the Multinode Tree Picker instead of the Media Picker although that's a different UI experience.

Unless you fancy making your own custom version of the media picker (can be done) you will just need to make your code able to handle the incorrect selection.

Regards,

Jeavon

Thanks for the feedback. I have another question:

Is it possible to remove the default 'Upload' block on the Media tab. I want my users to create any number of RightSidebarSection instances in the RightSidebarSections folder by clicking on the ... right next to RideSidebarSections.

I just know they will simply start clicking the giant upload control and then request support. But the whole goal is to reduce support requests.

If you mean the dashboard that loads when you click on the Media section, then you can change this by editing /config/dashboards.config

In the dashboard.config file, all I see is this:

  <section alias="StartupMediaDashboardSection">
    <areas>
      <area>media</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Content">
      <control showOnce="false" addPanel="false" panelCaption="">
        views/dashboard/media/mediafolderbrowser.html
      </control>
    </tab>
  </section>

How can I modify this to hide the upload button?

In order to hide the upload button, I've tried display-noneing all of the "fileinput-button umb-upload-button-big"-occurences. I even tried commenting them out.

<span class="fileinput-button umb-upload-button-big" ng-class="{disabled: disabled}" style="display:none;">
    <i class="icon icon-page-up"></i>
    <p><localize key="media_clickToUpload">Click to upload</localize></p>
    <input type="file" name="files[]" multiple ng-disabled="disabled">
</span>

You'd think it's a pretty rigorous way of getting rid of an unwanted element. But it does not work. The upload button still appears.

I can tell from the disabled ng-class, that there is support for disabling the upload button.

How do I make this setting?

The "fileinput-button umb-upload-button-big" element is used in both the files folderbrowser.html as well as mediafolderbrowser.html. What's the difference between the two, anyway? Isn't all folder browsing in Umbraco related to media?

Removing the whole section in the dashboard works, but next to removing the upload button, it also removes the overview of all uploaded stuff directly beneath.

I've edited the mediafolderbrowser.html and the folderbrowser.html files to exclude the upload button. For some reason unbeknownst to me, the upload button magically appears anyway.

The dashboard.config only lets me remove the mediafolderbrowser, not the folderbrowser. I would really like the backoffice to pick up the edits I make in the html files, but it doesn't.

What can I do to fix this?

I see the html was merely being cached.

I got it working now by editing the upload button out of those html files.

Ah great, if you want to ensure you don't overwrite mediafolderbrowser.html when you upgrade Umbraco you could duplicate and rename the file.

Great tip, thanks.

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