TYPO3 Core

Hi, this currently only possible by using some hooks.

See https://github.com/beechit/default_upload_folder that uses these hooks

It seems in TYPO3 9.x it's possible to change the global default upload folder: https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/TSconfigReference/UserTsconfig/Options.html#defaultuploadfolder

It would be nice if changing the upload folder would be possible using TCA, probably as an option in \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::getFileFieldTCAConfig().

I think it should even be possible to force an editor to choose an upload folder when he uses "Select & upload files". It is very tedious to first upload an image using the filelist and then go back to the record and setup a relation to the image just uploaded. There are cases where a human has to decide to which folder an image belongs, because there are no simple rules that could be used. The default upload folder could then be proposed to the editor, but he should still be able to choose a different folder.

Did you have a look at https://github.com/beechit/default_upload_folder/ ?

As this is exactly the usecase the extension provides

@Frans Saris
no cause the ext provides a solution for a per-page base (PID) not a solution for a per-record (UID) base.

It can handle per record/field and that for the whole pagetree or only for a specific page.

But you want to set it for instance a different folder for news item uid 1 than for uid 2?

yes, for example:
news record uid -> directory
uid 1 (pid 1) -> directory 1
uid 2 (pid 1) -> directory 2
uid 3 (pid 1) -> directory 3

why? so that you can finally clean up the files (images etc.) automatically and the editor does not have to create folders beforehand - which has always been quite confusing with our previous experience. Sometimes a folder is capitalized, sometimes completely capitalized, sometimes small, sometimes underlined, sometimes without, sometimes with umlauts, sometimes without - and if an editor in the respective company changes and he was not properly instructed, sometimes everything lands directly in the user_upload folder...

In my current case, for example, I have FE-User which can upload files, these are now already beautifully in individual folders stored and in fact the record which they edit in the FE (automatically). In the backend this possibility is still missing so that a corresponding "sub"-admin must always create or search a folder first... that is not so nice and error-prone.

Combining UserTSconfig (-> defaultUploadFolder) with conditions (e.g. PIDinRootline) should be possible

Maybe this could be brought into core?
https://github.com/beechit/default_upload_folder

@Nikita Hovratov
thanks for the link, however this is not exactly what I want, it/we should be able to create folders automatically (for example at our own controller or hook) - e.g. new user registers (UserName: "Max Mustermann"), then the new user gets his own folder (name of the folder e.g. "user-max_mustermann").
Do you know what I mean? ;)

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