Integrate IMCE with image and file fields [#2824922]

Image and file fields allow tracking file usage across the site in D8, however they don't provide the ability to select images and files already in the file system, IMCE does. Adding a button to image and file fields UI that would enable the user to select a file or image already in the file system using IMCE would be a big advantage. It would enable images that need to be fields (for example so that views can use them separate from body content) to be already existing images. Also, in 8.2.x Drupal8 introduced html attributes for inline images that enable these to be tracked as well. When an image is added via the file upload dialog in drupalimage, these are added and filled in automatically with details from the files table, however IMCE images and files do not have these attributes filled in, and so their usage is not tracked on the site.

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Comment #1

4 November 2016 at 14:37

whiplashomega created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

caspervoogt CreditAttribution: caspervoogt at Plethora commented 21 July 2018 at 18:23

I had the same thought as I was struggling with this today. In my case there was an issue with Inline Responsive Images, where upon first inserting an image with IMCE it does not fill in all the attributes, yet with the built-in Image icon it does. On a second image edit, it saves OK though. Not ideal.

Comment #3

karolus CreditAttribution: karolus as a volunteer commented 24 October 2018 at 13:13

IIRC, the reason UUIDs aren't added to images in ICME is to deal with content migrations from older versions. There are some long discussions on that here.

I can see why this is helpful for migrating an existing site, but for new builds, it's extremely frustrating, since inline responsive images only works with the default Insert Image function in CKEditor. Hopefully there will be stable fix/workaround at some point.