I'm building a case management system and have a need to be able to access documents from cases. For this fieldfile meets my needs, I have a case entity and I can create a fieldfile as an element of that entity that will load and store a document and create a reference to it. However the documents I reference in a case may need to be able to be referenced from other cases, otherwise it will be necessary for multiple copies of documents to be stored in the system. This is undesirable for several reasons.
I'm certain this is not a new idea but I couldn't find an issue for it so maybe not. Has anyone tried this and/or are there any thoughts on the matter?

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cilefen commented
Category: Feature request » Support request

You can use the Media module for file reuse. Filefield sources is good too.

Version: 7.53 » 7.x-dev

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quietone commented
Issue tags: -file multiple reference, -file reuse

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