After the recent Miro update to adding Alt Tags to images, the images no longer display their filenames. We use miro often to work with many images and use the filenames for search/reference in other apps and documentation.
Is there an option somewhere to display the filename or was this feature removed?
[RESOLVED] Image Filename Missing from context bar
UPDATE — issue is RESOLVED:
Thank you for reaching out to Miro Support and for sharing the details about the missing image filename in the context menu.
We understand how important it is to have consistent access to image details, especially when working with newly uploaded files. I’m happy to let you know that our Engineering team identified the issue and has already implemented a fix.
Please go ahead and refresh your board, then try uploading a new image again to confirm that the filename now appears as expected.
Thank you for adding me! I see the community is definitely reiterating what I’m experiencing too.
To Miro designers, There certainly seems to be plenty of real estate on that floating bar that appears when an image is selected using the V selection tool. Can the filename preview be added to that pop up too? Added *back* I should say?
Keep innovating and thanks for listening. I’m enjoying Miro so far.
hi
when i follow the steps you show above i still need to click on ALT first..and then i’ll need to switch back to the arrow.
Can we please have the single click back?
+13hi
when i follow the steps you show above i still need to click on ALT first..and then i’ll need to switch back to the arrow.
Can we please have the single click back?
The steps are just a workaround. If you press V on your keyboard (toggles between select/pan), the you still only have to “click/tap” once. Assumptions: You are using a keyboard, have two hands, and one had is close to your keyboard with the other being on a mouse. With those conditions in place, as a workaround until Miro makes another change or reverts back, I find it to be pretty quick.
Here it is in action:
- I start in select mode
- While in a presentation, I press the V key to switch to pan mode
- I select the image to see the filename
- I press the V key to go back to select mode.
Screenshot of my board:
GIF of it in action:
Today I found that some of my images are grouped and when in a group, I cannot apply the workaround.
Using V to click into the group of images and then switching to the hand tool, pops me back out of the group and so cannot select the image in question and reveal it’s filename.
+13Today I found that some of my images are grouped and when in a group, I cannot apply the workaround.
Using V to click into the group of images and then switching to the hand tool, pops me back out of the group and so cannot select the image in question and reveal it’s filename.
Ahhh, yes, that would trick up the workaround. I just tested, and even thought you can double-click a grouped object to individually select (and even move it while it’s still grouped), when you press the V key to go to pan mode and then click/select the group, you may only see the filename of the “highest” level image, e.g., I always only see dog.jpg as it is higher than/over cat.jpg:
+13It looks like Miro made a change as I am seeing the filename again in the context bar and no ALT option:
+1Hi all, thank you all again for the feedback on the importance of image filenames.
As Robert mentioned, we’ve rolled back the alt-text update, so you should be seeing file names as part of the top menu again — this also means that Alt-text is no longer available for images. We’re working hard to bring Alt-text back again, so stay tuned.
Hopefully, I haven’t missed too many people, cc:
Looks like it happend again with todays update.
Old images still show the name. New ones dont.
Please bring that back, its super important as we already discussed here. Otherwise there is no way to keep track of different versions if you dont know what you are looking at.
Also seeing the actual name when pressing download isnt working any longer, please keep the original filename there as well. Everything else makes Miro unusable for design iterations.
Thanks!
Yes, please bring it back! Its a critical feature to us to know where images came from for a reproducible workflow.
+13
For reference, here is the filename box that users have been reporting as missing for newly uploaded images:
Help!!!
Over the past two days I have been adding new images into a Miro report and the file names are now missing!
I have tired V and H - this does not work
Also when I download the images they now have a number filename and not the original name
Same here. And there’s already a INVESTIGATING comments 2 years ago which MIRO replied they’ll fix it.
So seems like it happens again?🤔
Also, I actually wish the images’ name show like its title or caption (like images in Notion) , then we can just read the name without clik it
Have also just encountered this problem - it’s a HUGE issue for myself and my company, as we relied on the image names for referencing purposes. If this isn’t fixed ASAP we will have to use another platform which we really don’t want to do!
Hi
We also experienced this problem, we would be grateful for a quick solution.
Thanks!
+13UPDATE — issue is RESOLVED:
Thank you for reaching out to Miro Support and for sharing the details about the missing image filename in the context menu.
We understand how important it is to have consistent access to image details, especially when working with newly uploaded files. I’m happy to let you know that our Engineering team identified the issue and has already implemented a fix.
Please go ahead and refresh your board, then try uploading a new image again to confirm that the filename now appears as expected.
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