Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When uploading assets and using them in rich text fields, which we are doing quite a bit, when replacing the assets in media we expected the url to remain the same so that all the links would point to the new asset. Unfortunately the ur…

Ahah, not sure if that’s sarcastic or not @tom.metten … but yes, we finally made it! :slight_smile: [image] Replace assets without breaking existing URLs This has been one of our most requested features, and it’s finally here: you can now replace assets in your DatoCMS project while kee…

So what are we supposed to do when someone adds an asset to a markdown or html block and they update that asset in the CMS backend? It won’t update automatically and there is no indicator that the file url needs to be updated in different places.

@flipxfx I think the best way to deal with this is to use a modular content with an asset so that you can avoid having lost links inside. If you really cannot avoid the markdown the only idea I have is that you set up some webhook and you take care yourself to update the URLs of the images whenever…

Yes our users link to documents and like to put pictures mid-content for blogs etc. It would be awkward to have to use modular content just to put links to things. :thinking: We found it sort of misleading since you can choose images to place in HTML/Markdown blocks via the media explorer. If there…

Makes sense what you are saying. We are going to try something out to see if that is not too heavy on our DB, not sure when, but we are going to try something out.

@matjack1 Was there any progress on this feature examination? We just discovered this same issue rolling out a DatoCMS driven blog to non-technical end-users. Their perfectly acceptable expectation is that an incorrect image can be replaced using the “replace” function. We also have some rarely chan…

@troy.forster your argument makes sense for sure. We’ll try having a look as we’ll probably work on something related.

Hey @mat_jack1 – just wanted to follow up here and say that we also found ourselves needing a feature that would allow us to replace files/media while keeping the same URL. Was there any progress this year? Thanks

Hey @kenny this problem persists as it’s a base behaviour of our image management right now. We have improved in deleting unused assets, but we don’t have yet a way to implement redirects sorry. We know it’s useful but it’s a problem that we should address on a very low level that at the moment is s…

Same problem here. Couldn’t the solution be a manual or automatic redirect as requested here ?

Hi @mat_jack1 This problem has come up for us a few times too, where we need to replace an asset with a new version and users had saved the link to the previous URL. A manual or automatic redirect as the previous post linked to would be great. But another option is what if assets could be assigned…

When replacing asset keep same url

✋ Feature Requests

donnie.hale May 30, 2023, 8:26pm 15

For another way in which this kind of capability is needed, see this forum discussion: How to change save as asset name? - #9 by donnie.hale

Topic		Replies	Views
Replace asset URL no publish event 🆘 Support media-area	7	80	January 28, 2026
How to change save as asset name? 🆘 Support	9	1539	March 10, 2023
Delete / purge assets 🆘 Support	10	1513	January 19, 2022
Automatic management of slug redirects? ✋ Feature Requests launched , slug	7	3559	February 28, 2024
Replaced asset URL 🆘 Support	2	568	May 2, 2023

When replacing asset keep same url

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