useAsTitle 'filename' for media collections does not seem to work

jankocian

9 months ago

8

admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'filename',
  },

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  jesschow

  Payload Team

  9 months ago

  Hey @jankocian, this works as intended when I replicate - where in the admin panel are you still seeing the media ID?

  
  

  Have you tried removing your

  /node_modules/.cache

  ?

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  jankocian

  9 months ago

  
  

  
  

  I did remove my

  node_modules/.cache

  yet still nothing... Examples in the screenshots above.

  
  

  
  

  Btw. changing useAsTitle to an actual alt field does work.

  

  
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  jesschow

  Payload Team

  9 months ago

  oic

  - interesting, I'll have to dig deeper to see why you cannot access the filename in this scenario.

  
  
  

  Work around for now - create a field that duplicates the filename and point

  useAsTitle

  to it. Try this:

  
  

      {
        name: 'title',
        label: 'filename',
        type: 'text',
        admin: {
          readOnly: true,
          hidden: true,
        },
        hooks: {
          beforeChange: [
            ({ data }) => {
              return data.filename;
            }
          ],
        },
      },

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  hzk1337

  8 months ago

  +1 for this problem 🙂

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  .redjoker

  3 months ago

  + 1 for this

  
  

  
  

  This appears to be related to the data in mongo. Starting with a fresh database got rid of the issue for me.