When using "Folder Collections Media and Public Folder" the overall media library files are not shown

[tangleMesh]

We have set up a netlify instance which in general works quite well. Therefore thanks for the great project!

As we have an own implementation of a static site generation, we prefer to keep the assets near to the documentation site (.md-file) as described here.

To get this behavior we used the media_folder and public_folder options inside our collections. Eg.

example_collection:
  name: "example_collection"
  label: "Example collection"
  folder: "example_collection"
  create: true
  extension: "md"
  format: "frontmatter"
  summary: "{{dirname}}/{{filename}}.md"
  slug: "netlify"
  path: "cake-cms/netlify/{{filepath}}/{{slug}}"
  fields:
    - { label: "File path", name: "filepath", widget: "string", required: true }
    - { label: "Title", name: "title", widget: "string" }
    - { label: "Body", name: "body", widget: "markdown" }
  nested:
    depth: 5
    summary: '{{slug}}'
  media_folder: "assets/"
  public_folder: "assets/"

But with this configuration the overall media_library is ignored.

media_folder: "static/images/uploads" # Media files will be stored in the repo under images/uploads
public_folder: "/images/uploads" # The src attribute for uploaded media will begin with /images/uploads

As a result, you can upload media files in the overall media-library:

But all of these images are not available in the media library during creation of a new pages in the example_collection:

Is this behavior intended or is this a bug? Because in our use-case it would be gread to use overall-assets also in each collection together with the specific collection media assets.
Otherwise the overall media library would make no sence in our case.

[erezrokah]

Is this behavior intended or is this a bug?

This behavior is intended, part of it since we don't support a nested directory structure in the media library (yet).
I think the main issue here is how to make displaying global and local assets not confusing to the user.