Content → Iris Media Library opens the media library. It works on the same folders as the Joomla media manager, images and files: nothing is moved or copied elsewhere.
Three columns
- On the left, the folders. Each folder shows its number of files, subfolders included (from Iris 3.0.055), and a red dot if it holds at least one file to review (too heavy, unused or to describe). The arrow keys move through the tree, Enter opens a folder.
- In the middle, the files. Thumbnails are sorted from newest to oldest: what you just uploaded is at the top. Each thumbnail shows the name, size, dimensions, date, and badges: used, unused, Trash, too heavy, to describe.
- On the right, the details of the chosen file: preview, action buttons, name, size, dimensions, format, date, usage, and the description.
The toolbar
- Upload: add files to the open folder (chapter 3).
- Folders: new folder, rename or delete the open folder (chapter 6).
- Select all, Grid, List: selection and display.
- Search: opens the search and sort bar (chapter 5). The number of results shows on the right.
At the top of the screen: Lighten images (chapter 8), Galleries (chapter 10) and Options (chapter 12).
Viewing a file
Double-clicking a thumbnail opens it: an image in the viewer, large, with arrows to move to the next one; a document in a new tab. In the details panel, clicking the preview does the same.
Choosing several files
- The circle at the top right of each thumbnail ticks or unticks it.
- Ctrl + click does the same, Shift + click ticks the whole range from the last file clicked.
- With the keyboard, Space ticks or unticks the focused thumbnail.
As soon as two files are ticked, a bar appears: Create a gallery, Move, Lighten selection, Delete.
During an action on several files (upload, delete, move, copy, lighten), a progress bar above the thumbnails shows how far it has got, for example “Deleting: 12 of 40”, and the action buttons wait until it ends (from Iris 3.0.044).
Right-click and keyboard
From Iris 3.0.210, a right-click opens a menu where you click:
- On a thumbnail: View larger (or Open for a document), Insert into the article (from the editor), Show where, Rename, Move, Copy, Download, Link, Crop, resize, Lighten, Delete.
- On a thumbnail of a selection: the selection's actions (Move, Lighten selection, Create a gallery, Clear selection, Delete).
- On a folder, in the tree or the breadcrumb: Open, Upload files here, New subfolder, Rename, Delete.
- On the empty part of the list: Upload, New folder, Select all.
The menu only offers what your permissions allow, and each choice does exactly what the button of the same name does. With the keyboard, the Menu key or Shift + F10 opens it on the focused thumbnail or folder; Escape closes it. F2 renames and Del deletes the focused thumbnail or folder. Shift + right-click keeps the browser's usual menu.
Up to date for Iris 3.0.210. Features added after 3.0.045 show the version that brings them.