Media library: Bulk editing image's title, caption and description doesn't work

[sanjeev00733]

Steps to reproduce

1. Starting at URL: http:///test271117.blog
2. Go to My sites > Sites > Media and then select 10 or more images and add some title, caption, and description to all images.
3. Hit save and recheck the images after reloading the media page.

What I expected

All images should have an updated title, caption, and description.

What happened instead

Only few images have the updated image attributes (random images)

Note: It works fine in wp-admin dashboard.

Screenshot / Video

1. Please see this video from the user https://www.dropbox.com/sh/50v8b0th0wuxe2e/AABJ_Ghj4hM-DF1DwjrSF2_Ha?dl=0&preview=For+Wordpress.mov
2. I am able to replicate the issue on my test site.

Context / Source

user-report

[flootr]

Looking into this, got a suspicion what's going on.

[flootr]

So it seems like this is caused by the following behaviour:

1. Changes to a form field in the media modal are only persisted after 1 second after the user typed something into the field. We call this behaviour debouncing and is likely to prevent spamming requests on every input change.
2. Hitting the Done button only persists changes to the currently displayed media item

So looking at the users video they're too fast selecting the next item before (1) can apply. That's why they're changes aren't persisted.

What can we do to improve the users experience?

• Decrease the amount of time we wait until we persist changes (regarding 1)
• Persist any changes to media items when bulk editing and hitting the Done button afterwards (regarding 2)
• Show the users something that we're about to persist they're changes and notify them when we're done after editing a field so that it's more clear what's happening

We're currently working on refactoring of the media library state management and it may very well be that this behaviour is not valid anymore afterwards.

/cc @saramarcondes because it's related to the media library reduxification

[donalirl]

Another case of this in #3159821-zen with video showing the issue too.

[github-actions[bot]]

This issue is stale because it has been 180 days with no activity. You can keep the issue open by adding a comment. If you do, please provide additional context and explain why you’d like it to remain open. You can also close the issue yourself — if you do, please add a brief explanation and apply one of relevant issue close labels.