Hey, I'd like to have filenames as titles in the Admin, instead of the ID - it makes more sense in the validation messages and provides overall better user experience.

admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'filename',
  },

According to the docs, this code in my

CollectionConfig

should work, but in reality, I'm stuck with the IDs. Any ideas? 🙂

Thanks a lot!

jessrynkar2 years ago
Hey
@930428018546049024
, 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
?
jankocian2 years 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.

jessrynkar2 years 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;
          }
        ],
      },
    },

hzk13372 years ago
+1 for this problem 🙂
.redjoker2 years 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.

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