Uploaded By Field in Asset Blank When Using Front End Upload

[RitterKnightCreative]

Description

The new 3.4 uploaded by (uploader) field is blank on submissions sent from the front end.

When an authenticated user is logged in, the asset should get set to the current user's ID but that's not happening.

Steps to reproduce

1. Setup a front-end entry form to accept an asset inside an asset field into an entry or user. Sample code below.
2. Submit the form
3. The Asset gets uploaded properly but Uploaded By attribution is null.

I would expect this with anonymous users, but it's happening for authenticated ones as well—I tried with a logged in, admin user.

Additional info

• Craft version: 3.4.29.1
• PHP version: 7.3
• Database driver & version: MySQL

Sample Code

More or less pulled from the Craft docs.

Setup an asset field (userPortfolio) and attach to a section (or user).

If I set {author.username} on the Default Upload Location, it even knows the user's username and puts it in the right folder.

This recently came up on the Craft CMS stack exchange.

{% set entry = entry ?? create('craft\\elements\\Entry') %}

<form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" enctype="multipart/form-data">

  {{ csrfInput() }}
  {{ actionInput('entries/save-entry') }}
  {{ hiddenInput('sectionId', '1') }}
  {{ hiddenInput('enabled', '1') }}

  <label for="title">Title</label>
  {{ input('text', 'title', entry.title, {
    id: 'title',
    class: entry.hasErrors('title') ? 'error',
  }) }}
  {{ _self.errorList(entry.getErrors('title')) }}


{{ input('file', 'fields[userPortfolio][]', options={
  multiple: true,
}) }}

  <input type="submit" value="Publish">
</form>

[brandonkelly]

Thanks for pointing that out! Just fixed for the next release.

To get the fix early, change your craftcms/cms requirement in composer.json to:

"require": {
  "craftcms/cms": "dev-develop as 3.4.29.1",
  "...": "..."
}

Then run composer update.

[brandonkelly]

Craft 3.4.30 is out now with that fix.

[brandonkelly]

That bug made its way back into Craft 3.5, and is now fixed once again for 3.5.8.