File manager shold be able to bulk edit basic file properties

[ArniPL]

In 5.6 we had an ability to bulk edit basic file properties in file manager, such as: title, description and tags.

I can't seem to find a way to do this in 5.7. When I select multiple files and then open properties dialog, there's only "Other Attributes" section.

Similar thing can be observed when uploading multiple files. In 5.6 we could edit titles of uploaded files (right after upload), and in 5.7 there's message saying that I can't edit titles when uploading multiple files.

Of course I could create my own attribute and use it as file title, but should it be limited like that? Is this intentional?

[patej]

Any news on this @aembler ? I see this a very valuable and time-saving feature e.g. when I need to update same tags to multiple files or the files share some parts of the description so it would be useful to be able to add the common part in bulk. Today I installed Grid Gallery 2 to a site and it uses tags for filtering the gallery so being able to set same tags to multiple uploaded images would've saved a lot of time with the 200+ images I had...

[MrKarlDilkington]

At the moment, I believe the core team is focused on creating a concrete5 REST API. After that is done, I think this feature would be useful to add. Managing file attributes for more than a few files is very time consuming.

[aembler]

It's not a high priority for us, since really at the moment the ONLY property on a file that can't be edited in bulk that would be useful to be edited in bulk is the custom tags property that you mention. If the gallery in question were updated to work off of custom attributes you'd be able to bulk edit custom attributes (since that functionality exists.)

It's not something that we're opposed to, it's just not that high of a priority: we'd also be happy to accept a pull request for this functionality.

[MrKarlDilkington]

@aembler

Thank you for the clarification. Using a custom attribute is an easy workaround.

[patej]

@aembler OK, thanks, using custom attributes is the way to go then, but in general, I would rather avoid using workarounds when there is a core property. Also, I would have personally needed bulk editing of descriptions a few times already so I wouldn't say tags is the "ONLY" property needing bulk change, only because other user cases haven't come up before.

Unfortunately I can't help with making this feature possible due to my limited skills, but hopefully someone can :)