UX for Assets Field edits

[edhebert]

In the Craft control panel , we have the option of clicking on an asset field and, if it's an image we can choose to edit it (change crop, focal point, etc). However, when we save that image edit from the asset field within the entry, it routes us back to the assets area of the site, not the entry currently being edited. WE then have to navigate back to that entry to continue editing.

Is there a way I can make this UX more seamless?

[brandonkelly]

I’m not able to reproduce that. After pressing “Save” within the image editor, the image editor will just fade away, and the edit page is revealed behind it.

How exactly are you editing the image? And what version of Craft are you using?

[edhebert]

I should've been more clear, my apologies. I'm running 5.8.21
This is happening with any assets field in my entry, whether a direct asset field, or within a matrix field (as in a content builder type of setup)
Here is a brief video clip showing my issue. https://share.cleanshot.com/5pqj1znX

[thupsi]

The issue is that you are clicking the title of the asset, thus navigating to the asset edit page and losing your entry context.

For the image editor to remain "context aware" and thus be able to return to the entry, you have to access it from the "Open in image editor" on the asset thumbnail (in the actions/3-dots menu) or in the slideout that opens if you doubleclick the thumbnail, while still in the entry edit page.

Having said that, hyperlinked titles in cards, chips and thumbnails can lead to the author getting confused, and this has been remedied in 5.9.

(Though, @brandonkelly check my comment.)

[edhebert]

Ah, thanks. I see that you're correct, and that when I click the image itself the UX is as hoped. Kinda counterintuitive though, that clicking the link to the filename of the image leads to a different destination than clicking the image itself. Seeing a hyperlink, it seems instinctive to click that. Perhaps that's something we can consider for a future revision. It'd make more sense to have "edit this asset in the assets page" in the three-dot menu, and have the filename link reveal the slideout in the same manner as the image link.

Thanks again for the clarification

[brandonkelly]

As @thupsi said, we’we removed the hyperlinks for 5.9.

Also worth noting, even if you do click the hyperlink and access the image editor from the asset’s edit page, you don’t actually need to press Save after saving the image from the image editor; the file itself has already been updated after saving from the image editor. From there, you could just press the browser’s Back button, and return to the entry’s edit page.