Hello! I was wondering if there was a way to attach thumbnails to media in bulk? We use HTML ingest to embed codes from soundcloud and youtube, but no thumbnail gets generated after the item is created. I have just been going into a media’s “advanced” tab and attaching a thumbnail that way, which is fine for smaller item sets, but isn’t ideal for a larger set with 50+ items. Is there a way to add an additional field in a “mixed resource” .csv import that will link everything together? Or is there a simpler way to do this that I’m missing?
This is one of those areas where we have options for doing this kind of thing but we haven’t built out support for custom thumbnails into them.
Would you be trying to set the same thumbnail on a bunch at once, or all different?
The same thumbnail on a bunch at once!
OK. So the natural place for us to support that would really be in the batch edit interface. We can do that (I’ve made a branch for it just now, actually) but that feature’s not there today.
CSV Import could also do the same thing (setting everything from an import to the same thumbnail) but I’m not sure how widely applicable a feature like that would be, and it might be a little confusing for people. Doing thumbnails within the sheet so they could vary, we can do an easy version of that by making you give the asset ID for the thumbnail in the sheet, but adding new ones would be tricky because the asset system is really set up for direct uploads only.
In terms of what you could do today: you could do this with the API but it would mean a little scripting. You could also apply the change I mentioned to your install to enable the batch edit feature, if you’re comfortable tinkering with the code (like, applying a patch).