Tag Archives: media library

Sitecore media library missing PDF icons

Posted on January 10, 2013 by briancaos

When uploading PDF (or Word/Excel/…) documents to the Sitecore media library, the PDF icon is not shown: In this case it is only my test server that is not showing the icons. My local development machine (my own laptop) displays … Continue reading →

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Open Media Library from Sitecore Page Editor

Posted on June 6, 2012 by briancaos

This article describes how you can add your own button to the Sitecore Page Editor. In a previous post I explained how to edit hidden fields in the Page Editor. This post is about managing media contents, and to do … Continue reading →

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Replacing mediaitems in Sitecore

Posted on April 20, 2011 by briancaos

This tip is from one of my colleagues Frederik Örnfelt who read my post about Adding a file to the Sitecore Media Library. But instead of adding files, he simply wanted to replace one item with another. Replacing media items … Continue reading →

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Adding a file to the Sitecore Media Library programatically

Posted on July 9, 2009 by briancaos

I thought it was tricky to read a file from disk and add it to the Sitecore media library untill I actually look into it. Sitecore has introduced 2 classes to help with the creation: The Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaCreator and the Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaCreatorOptions.  The … Continue reading →

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Media Library file names. Tired of guids?

Posted on August 28, 2008 by briancaos

Have you noticed that when uploading files to the media library, sometimes the resulting file name is a guid? If I upload an image, say Brian.jpg, I need to write ~/media/9B62BB56FD6040FAA56C6DB1D8A0BDE6.ashx in order to acces it from the front end. And … Continue reading →

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