Authoring digital assets
Chapter 11 highlights Drupal’s capabilities for managing digital assets. In that chapter, the three primary constructs were presented: files, images, and media. All three features offer slightly different experiences for content authors.
Given that entities have customizable fields, digital assets can be associated with an entity. Consider a banner image on a node. Alone, it may not be clear where that image is rendered in the Drupal application. At a high level, the motivation behind the file, image, and media field types was to incorporate digital assets into structured content. The general structure content editing experience is effectively demonstrated in Figure 14.6, but there is more nuance for each type of digital asset.
The following figure shows the experience of an editing form that has each of the three digital asset field types:
Figure 14.8 – Field widgets for files, images, and media
Figure 14.8...
