Media provides powerful filtering options to help you quickly find the media files you need. You can filter by date, file type, author, categories, and language.

Filter media files by their upload date.

How to use:

Tip: The calendar highlights your selected date range, making it easy to see what period you're filtering.

Filter media by file type to quickly find images, videos, documents, and more.

Available options:

How to use:

Tip: You can select multiple file types at once to see all images and videos together, for example.

Find media files uploaded by specific users.

How to use:

Tip: The search is helpful when you have many users in your system.

Organize and find media by assigned categories.

How to use:

Tip: Categories help organize media by projects, campaigns, or content types.

Filter media by language, useful for multilingual content.

How to use:



When Print Version handling is active, a Print Version filter chip appears with two options:



If any Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for Purple DAMa are configured, those can also be used as filters for Media. See also Configure ACFs as filterf

When you apply filters, they appear as chips below the filter buttons:

Each chip shows:

You can use multiple filters together to narrow down your search:

Example:

Each filter progressively narrows your results.

To remove a single filter:

To remove all filters:

Start broad and progressively narrow:

The item count at the bottom shows how many files match your filters:

The search bar at the top of the Media Library searches across:

Results are returned instantly and support multi-word queries.

For ACF field values to appear in search results, an administrator must:

Once indexed, ACF field content is searchable alongside the standard fields.