TYPO3 Core

do you use Drag&Drop?

windows priorizes the file/item where you dragged (mousedown) the selection and inserts them first. sometimes the order of marking the items is used. In this way it is an error of windows and TYPO3 can not do anything.

thank you for your answer. And no, I don't use drag&drop.

@Susanne:
Thank you for your answer. First of all, I'm not speaking from the uploading process but from the process when adding images to a content element text/media. I think this process is independent from the operating system, or not?

My background: One of my clients, a big bicycle association with several regional sub units (called "Kreisverbände"), has many photo galleries of bicycle tours on his website where the ordering of the photos is important (should always be from begin of a tour to the end). When uploading 50 or more photos, it's very annoying for the editors (most of them are working voluntary), when they always have to correct the order of the photos after adding them to a content element text/media. Surely I could try an image gallery plugin but I always prefer to use core methods because it's easier to understand for the editors.

Another solution would be to use the file list content element, because the files can be ordered by title, but I think it's originally thought for listing download links and not for creating a photo gallery...

Claude Unterleitner wrote:

Another solution would be to use the file list content element, because the files can be ordered by title, but I think it's originally thought for listing download links and not for creating a photo gallery...

Thanks for your answer.

One way to go could be to add the functionality from the files element (or the bootstrap package) to allow adding file collections / folders and sorting to the images / media elements.

I don't exactly see a solution for the ajax requests as Andy stated, however the use case is very valid and we should have a solution.

Ok, so I was kind of curious and wanted to try my suggestion, I did the following:

Changed the TypoScript of the image content element to:

tt_content.image {
         10 = TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\DataProcessing\FilesProcessor
         10 {
             references.fieldName = image
+            collections.field = file_collections
+            sorting.field = filelink_sorting
+            sorting.direction.field = filelink_sorting_direction
         }
}

Changed showitem of GallerySettings to

--- a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Configuration/TCA/tt_content.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Configuration/TCA/tt_content.php
@@ -1924,7 +1924,12 @@ return [
             'label' => 'LLL:EXT:frontend/Resources/Private/Language/Database.xlf:tt_content.palette.gallerySettings',
             'showitem' => '
                 imageorient;LLL:EXT:frontend/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_ttc.xlf:imageorient_formlabel,
-                imagecols;LLL:EXT:frontend/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_ttc.xlf:imagecols_formlabel
+                imagecols;LLL:EXT:frontend/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_ttc.xlf:imagecols_formlabel,
+                --linebreak--,
+                file_collections;LLL:EXT:frontend/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_ttc.xlf:file_collections.ALT.uploads_formlabel,
+                --linebreak--,
+                filelink_sorting,
+                filelink_sorting_direction,
             ',
         ],

(both can be achieved in a site extension with TypoScript and TCA overrides).

Now I can select file collections and sorting options and the frontend renders them as if I added the images one-by-one. So until the patch from Andy is done, you can use this very easily (and it might even be easier in the long run, as editors can organize their pictures in a folder and "just" select that folder and a sorting).

Patch set 2 for branch master of project Packages/TYPO3.CMS has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at https://review.typo3.org/c/Packages/TYPO3.CMS/+/63838

Patch set 3 for branch master of project Packages/TYPO3.CMS has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at https://review.typo3.org/c/Packages/TYPO3.CMS/+/63838

Patch set 4 for branch master of project Packages/TYPO3.CMS has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at https://review.typo3.org/c/Packages/TYPO3.CMS/+/63838