Media library appears empty from within Views editors

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Last updated by Jerry Hudgins 7 years ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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November 19, 2017 at 6:52 pm #591006

Jerry Hudgins

I find that I'm unable to make use of the "Media" button in the various Views editors (Views Output Editor, etc.). The popup it displays always reports the Media Library to be empty, when in fact it is not. The Media button works as expected in the standard WP editors. What might lead to this behavior? I'm a new Toolset (and WP) user; might I have something misconfigured here?

This has been observed on two different WP 4.9 installations, running up-to-date versions of the Toolset plugins.

November 20, 2017 at 10:22 am #591156

Nigel

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Hi Jerry

I tested this and you are right.

I haven't observed clients trying to add media in those editor sections of a View before, but there is no reason you shouldn't.

I have escalated this thread so that it can be investigated further, and I'll update you here when there is some news to report.

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November 20, 2017 at 5:43 pm #591321

Jerry Hudgins

Thanks, Nigel. I look forward to your report.

November 21, 2017 at 4:21 pm #591693

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Hi Jerry

Turns out this issue arose a couple of years or more ago when it was determined that this is by design and will not be changed.

Views are not posts, they are a kind of template that may be exported and imported to other sites and as such they should be fully self-contained, which is why the Media library only presents images uploaded from the View itself.

November 21, 2017 at 6:32 pm #591753

Jerry Hudgins

OK, Nigel. Thanks for looking into this. I'd suggest that an explanation of the limitation be added to the Views documentation.

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