Feature Req: Ability to make use of native Asset picker / Link selector in UI Extensions about ui-extensions-sdk HOT 8 CLOSED

I know it's partially related (and technically the original issue is now fixed) but...

There's currently no way of uploading an asset via UI-extension. The Management API method space.createAssetFromFiles is not in the ui-extension v3 extension.space (probably newer) nor there's a dialog for the asset upload. Can currently only select already-uploaded assets. Is this feature (ability to upload assets via ui-extension) in the roadmap?

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Hi @nkahoang, as of today you can install v3.1.0 of our SDK that contains methods for opening our native selectors. Here's the section in the API reference that describes how to use new methods:

https://github.com/contentful/ui-extensions-sdk/blob/master/docs/ui-extensions-sdk-frontend.md#extensiondialogs

Please let us know what are you thoughts and if it met your expectations. I'll leave this issue opened for couple of days if you've got some immediate feedback.

Best,
Jakub

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Hi and thank you for this proposal.

We are currently collecting feedback of this kind to fine-tune the next steps regarding the UI extensions SDK. Allowing more interactions with the web app is indeed part of these steps, although we are not yet at a stage where we can provide with more details on the exact features we will prioritize regarding the assets picker.

We'll keep this thread updated whenever we have more information to share.

Best,
Hervé

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Hi!
Just wanted to update this thread to mention that we're actively working on making this happen.
This PR will be exposing new methods allowing to leverage the existing asset or entry picker.

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Hi Tomas,

Proposing the upload ability from within the asset selection dialog is something we have in our backlog but haven't prioritised yet. This would solve your issue.
I'm keeping tabs on this thread to come back once we do, along with thinking about exposing the upload function in the UI extension SDK.

Best,
Hervé

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I would certainly support this feature request.
As of now, is there any workaround for uploading new files directly to contentful from within a UI extension?

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UI Extensions SDK exposes the default Contentful entity (Entry/Asset) selector with extension.dialogs and this is the expected behaviour for this SDK. Teams resposible for the entity selection dialog are aware of this need but there's still no timeline.

Important thing to mention is that UI Extensions automatically get all updates to dialogs. So if direct upload from the selector will be implemented UI Extensions will have it right away.

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