Sitecore Corner

I am posting this article as a follow up to the following SDN Topic – Sitecore 7.2: Delete image in media picker in page editor.

After upgrading to Sitecore 7.2 the content editors might complain about the new Speak UI Media Browser, as they would not find it as intuitive as the old one (or maybe they will have a hard time getting used to it). Fortunately there is a way to disable the new Speak Media Browser and switch to the good old Sheer one.

It can be achieved by disabling Speak overrideXmlControls in the Sitecore.Speak.config.

Create a custom configuration with the following code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
	<sitecore>
		<overrideXmlControls>
			<override xmlControl="Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Media.MediaBrowser" with="/sitecore/client/applications/Dialogs/SelectMediaDialog">
				<patch:delete />
			</override>
		</overrideXmlControls>
	</sitecore>
</configuration>

Keep in mind that the configuration file needs to be bellow the Sitecore.Speak.config in the Include folder otherwise the configuration file won’t work because the original Sitecore.Speak.config overrides won`t be registered (a good name will be z_Sitecore.Speak.Overrides.config).

The effects can be seen on the screenshots bellow.

Before:

After:

You can also notice that Sitecore.Speak.config is the configuration file in which the old Sheer UI Dialogs were overridden by the new Speak UI Dialogs (under the overrideDialogs node). If you want to switch to the old Sheer Dialogs this is the place to do it.