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EE3 - When image description is blank, use title field

Try this: <li class="large-4 small-3 columns"> {right_image_1} {if description} <img class="avatar w-alt" alt="{description}" src="{url}" /> {if:else} <img ...
Kevin Carpenter's user avatar
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CRUDL Interface for Custom Data and Files: The Correct Way

The best way would be to use the Model service to create Channel Entries and files: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/development/services/model.html This will guarantee you are saving ...
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Migration from Assets to native File Manager

I've been working on upgrading an EE2 6-site MSM installation up to EE5 and in the process realised that Assets now requires a separate license for each site. So to save myself $600 I wrote a script ...
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Migration from Assets to native File Manager

It depends upon what you call 'easy'. It can be done, but is quite complicated, and AFAIK none has written a utility to do this migration for you (though it probably could be created). Assets bases ...
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Have WYGWAM image insert be able to select from multiple directories

what happens if you don't specify a folder? EE will normally give you the options for the folders you have rights to upload into
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Undefined variable: whitelist whenever trying to interact with files

Did you run an EE upgrade recently?? They changed how they detect mime types: https://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/about/changelog.html Look at the change log for 2.10. They use a ...
jrothafer's user avatar
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Missing thumbnails in Assets

It turns out my database.php file had an extra blank line at the beginning. (see that extra line?) And this was corrupting output in EE. Any php file that is included (called by the main php file) ...
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Embedcode doesn't display channel file input

When you open one within a template EE generates a whole new template instance for an embed: the content of the embed are not affected directly by the conditions in the template that called it. This ...
JCOGS Design's user avatar
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Can File Manager sort or filter by file size?

Short answer is no... but maybe that will improve in EE6 (which I hear has some revisions to how CP works). Long answer is maybe... via a custom written module that creates an alternative view of the ...
JCOGS Design's user avatar
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Error in Control Panel Channel Entries Pages: "EE.grid is not a function"

So you see the JS resource URL that is being loaded? It looks something like this: .../admin.php?S=0&D=cp&C=javascript... Open that link in a new tab. It is a compiled output of JS resources ...
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Expression Engine file manager - Error on browsing uploaded images

I just encountered this issue last week, and EllisLab confirmed it as a bug that can present itself under certain conditions (related to a special character in a file name causing json_encode() to ...
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Getting images out of the system

You started fine with the manual deletion; you just need to complete the process. Open your Edit form and find your entry_id. Then, go to your field groups and find the field_id of the file field. ...
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File names with special characters

This is a bug, and a solution from EllisLab can be found at https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/20972
Christofer Sandin's user avatar
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File upload not working in expressionengine 2.10.0

I had a similar issue recently when PHP was reconfigured. It turned out PHP's fileinfo extension wasn't enabled. Fixing that fixed the upload problem I was having. Might at least be something to check ...
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"Thumbnail could not be created for the image." Error

I had this problem and what fixed it for me was changing the Image Resizing Protocol to GD2 (it was set to ImageMagick, which probably was not installed on this server). Image Resizing Protocol (in ...
edward's user avatar
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Make File manager files downloadable

You can use HTML download attribute in the <a> tag. <a href="{file_field}" download>Filename</a>
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Remove query string from images in the file manager

Thank you for adding more information in question: The answer is "YES", You can remove Versioning query string from your file link. Follow this steps: Open FTP and go to your EE site. Go to system &...
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HTTP ERROR 500 when editing entry with image in EE2

First: The PHP options on our server 'Display errors' and 'log_errors' were 'Off'. Switched them to 'On'. Then I set $debug = 1; in index.php in folder expressionengine. Now I could see Fatal ...
Werner Gusset's user avatar
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Easy creation of new file upload directory per entry instead of per channel?

If you want to upload a slideshow images per entry and you want separate directories per entry. You can simply use channel images plugin. It will create separate directories for each entry and you can ...
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This form has expired. Please refresh and try again. in EE 3.0.5 File Manager

Issue resolved. Uploading a smaller file size seems to have done the trick. Still requires: $config['disable_csrf_protection'] = "y";
Stuart Thornton's user avatar
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How to use Solspace Importer for files

If you look at the data stored in exp_channel_data for regular EE File Upload fields, you'll see files stored this way, eg: {filedir_1}myfile.jpg, where 1 is your upload field ID (this changes ...
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Files displaying in File Manager even though they don't exist

Have you tried 'sync'ing'? I believe this updates the database with the actual content of folders (and creates any manipulations that may exist).
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