django_ckeditor_5 custom media storage location !!STILL NEED HELP!!

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Hello,
I have been trying to figure out how to customize the storage location of my media that is placed in my ckeditor rich text field.

I have a function that I use when adding images
def get_upload_path(instance, filename): model = instance.album.model.__class__._meta name = model.verbose_name_plural.replace(' ', '_') album = instance.album.name return f'blog/images/{name}/{album}/images/{filename}'
django_ckeditor_5 defaults the images into the media directory. Is there a way to make it do something similar to what I am doing in my get_upload_path function?

In the documentation it gives this example:
class CustomStorage(FileSystemStorage): """Custom storage for django_ckeditor_5 images.""" location = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, "django_ckeditor_5") base_url = urljoin(settings.MEDIA_URL, "django_ckeditor_5/")
I have tried using this in my settings file and I still get the same results.

Thanks for the Help!

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Hey there!
Can you please edit your post to properly format the code?

Wrap your code with the back tick ` so it will considerate indentation.

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Will do. Sorry about that. Thanks for the response.

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Alright I have figured out why some of the basic thing were not working. First I place this python file in my app.

storage.py
`
import os
from urllib.parse import urljoin

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage

class CustomStorage(FileSystemStorage):
“”“Custom storage for django_ckeditor_5 images.”“”

location = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, "ckeditor")
base_url = urljoin(settings.MEDIA_URL, "ckeditor/")

`

I then had to point to this using the CKEDITOR_5_FILE_STORAGE variable in my settings file.

CKEDITOR_5_FILE_STORAGE = "blog.storage.CustomStorage"

This allows me to store all of the images to whatever media url I set in my storage.py file.

Still working out how to make it more dynamic. I would like like to have a folder for year and folder with title of articles to be added to it.

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Wow you really helped me with your CustomStorage idea, thanks! Here is how I made the year/month/day structure for my own ckeditor5:

from django.utils.timezone import now


class CustomStorage(FileSystemStorage):
    location = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, "uploads", str(now().year), f"{now().month:02d}", f"{now().day:02d}")
    base_url = urljoin(settings.MEDIA_URL, f"uploads/{now().year}/{now().month:02d}/{now().day:02d}/")```

Hope it helps!