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Asked: 2026-06-07T20:36:01+00:00

When using the add media button in the CKEditor in our Drupal 7 installation,

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When using the add media button in the CKEditor in our Drupal 7 installation, and then clicking the Library tab, this is the dialog that we get:

Browing for media

What we would like is the ability to have filters etc. like in this screenshot from the Drupal Media Module page:

View Library in Drupal Media Module

So far we are unable to figure out how to configure the media module to have this extra View Library option.

We’d also like a similar function for when users click on the link button in the CKEditor.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The screenshot is from the (unstable) 2.x branch. The changes between 1.x and 2.x are documented here, one of them being:

    The Library tab in the Media browser is being converted to a Views-powered tab named ‘Views library’ enabled by default. The old library tab which is deprecated is named ‘Library’. This means that Views is now a dependency for 2.x as well.

    Bottom line, if you want that functionality you’ll need to install the unstable branch of the module (although I really wouldn’t recommend doing that, not a lot of modules get marked as ‘unstable’ so you should use any one that is with extreme caution).

    I don’t think there’s any (existing) way to force the standard CKEditor link button to use the media popup, as it’s provided by the CKEditor module itself. I think you’d need to write a custom plugin for both CKEditor and Media to get that functionality.

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