Hi there,
I am seeking an enable/disable setting in Photo Center Settings that would allow our editors to only see manually uploaded images by default on an initial search. This includes when searching in Photo Center or via the Featured Media tab while working in Composer.
As an editor, when I go to search for an image in Photo Center, I sometimes see a lot of images that were not manually uploaded by an actual editor, but rather from a feed, for example.
In Photo Center, there is a checkmark under Ingestion Method called "Manual upload" that I sometimes recommend for finding just images that an editor actually uploaded into the library. This requires scrolling down a bit in the left column, checking that box, and then clicking "Apply Filter."
This solution of adding a setting in Photo Center Settings would help expedite image searches as a result. I don't believe this setting exists at the moment.
To clarify, the "Manual upload" setting should still exist as an option to also untoggle should the user need to find an image that wasn't manually uploaded -- in other words, search for ALL images in the library.
The new setting should also give organizations the option of whether to have this available setting as an opt-in setting to avoid confusion with current workflows. So the setting should not be enabled by default if it goes live and becomes available to check/uncheck in Settings, I'm thinking.
A temporary option is to bookmark a Photo Center URL once all the desired queries are added or enabled, but I don't think this would work when searching for images within Composer's Featured Media tab.
Thanks!
Troy Blevins
Something that could also be great is if this could be set based on a user's permission level. Perhaps a contributor, for example, sees just the manually uploaded images by default, but a higher level user sees all images by default, which can be important for testing.