TYPO3 Core

this would be a very useful feature for people who organized their files in folders before
and have to use categories (or set a category for files in an existing folder) at once.

Definitely think the status of this ought to be "should have".
I'd tried to use Robert's url hack but can't get it to work form.
Editing the same fields on multiple elements was (for me at least) a killer feature of TYPO3.
I'd love to know the suggested workflow for uploading/editing a website's worth of images using the 6.x filelist.

Getting the URL to work is a bit tricky... you need to add the moduleToken to the URL, replace the folder name and set the uids of the sys_file_metadata entries, you want to edit. These are the parameters:

returnUrl:/typo3/mod.php?M=file_list
moduleToken:TOKEN
id:1:FOLDER
target:1:FOLDER
imagemode:1
edit[sys_file_metadata][ID1,ID2,ID3]:edit

Where FOLDER is a path within fileadmin, TOKEN is a valid moduleToken and ID1-ID3 are uids of sys_file_metadata entries.

Robert Vock wrote:

Getting the URL to work is a bit tricky... you need to add the moduleToken to the URL, replace the folder name and set the uids of the sys_file_metadata entries, you want to edit. These are the parameters

Since I had to edit a massive amount of meta data, I created a Bookmarklet for this purpose. I tested it in 8.7 with Chrome Browser. CMS Backend english and german.

If anbody needs it or needs a hint how to collect the data, here is my approach:

https://gist.github.com/boppy/14a6dfe69b7ca1aa08c7515c6acd0060

PS: This might also work in Firefox, but since it uses ES6 it might/should not be working in IE...

PPS: I fully agree with Matt Bracewell: This should at least be should have.

Solution from Bopp also works for 9 LTS! Thanks. And I vote also for should have!

Would be a great feature for v11 at least