Hi. I am using media module to show media files. I would like to have users comment on individual media. Since media 2.x is using file_entity as file backend, I suppose this feature should be implemented in this module, right?

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Jackinloadup’s picture

Jackinloadup commented
Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Hi xiaoruoruo,

After enabling this module files become "field-able" and you can add a text field to the file types at admin/structure/file-types. That text field could be called "Comments".

Also if you use the latest Media-2.x-dev version (>=July 26th 2012) it contains #1426730: Automatically open the file edit modal after uploading a file which will allow your users edit that comment right after adding the file.

I'm closing this issue. Please reopen if I didn't address your question / request.

xiaoruoruo’s picture

xiaoruoruo commented

Hi Lucas,

Thanks for your suggestion. I know this works. Just that it seems weird that comment is not a first-class citizen here. For example,

  • I need to add the comments field to every kind of media: image, video, etc.
  • User need to click the edit tab in order to add comments. It's not even straightforward to put a link to add comments in the view tab.
  • This way I don't get the features that internal comments provide. For example, user could alter the orders of individual comments, which internal comments don't allow. And nested comments are not possible.

I have read that file entity may become a core module in Drupal 8. But it would also be great if this could be implemented in Drupal 7. I know some programming, maybe I could help with something, if provided some advice on how to get started.

Cheers

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Jarode commented
Version: 7.x-2.0-unstable6 » 7.x-2.0-unstable7
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Active

Hi Jackinloadup,

We don't need a field where the user can put in some text to describe the uploaded file.
We need a comment system , the same that is currently available for node entity.

Thanks

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dave reid
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Unfortunately there is nothing that we should support for comments in file_entity for Drupal 7. You may need to look into some kind of other contrib solution that allows comments to be added as a field to any entity in Drupal 7.

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dave reid
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You may want to check out http://drupal.org/project/reply