Important: An uploaded profile image carries its metadata 

Description 

A profile image uploaded in the frontend editor now arrives with its metadata filled instead of empty. Two records are involved, and they are written for different reasons:

• The sys_file_reference row of the profile carries the composed name of the profile record it belongs to in title and alternative , and follows every later change of that name. This is the language-correct place for the text — a translation carries its own name, and the file may be shared between the languages of a profile. It is written by fgtclb/academic-persons , for a backend save as well as for a frontend one (changelog entry Breaking: The profile image translates of that extension).
• The sys_file_metadata record of the uploaded file is filled once, by the upload that created the file, and only where it is empty: title , alternative and — where typo3/cms-filemetadata adds the column — copyright . These are what an installation running that extension or fgtclb/file-required-attributes reports as missing required attributes, and nothing else fills them for a file that was never touched in the backend. A value a backend editor maintained on the record is never overwritten, and a later change of the profile name does not reach it.

The composed name is the ordered non-empty values of title , first_name , middle_name and last_name , joined with single spaces.

Impact 

An image uploaded through the profile editor no longer shows up in File > Filelist as a file with missing required attributes, and the name of the person is rendered as alt and title text wherever the file is used — not only where the profile's own reference is rendered.

copyright is a column of sys_file_metadata only. The relation row sys_file_reference has no such column, in the core or through any system extension, so it carries the composed name in title and alternative and nothing else.

Nothing has to be configured for it. An installation that maintains file metadata editorially keeps what it maintained: the upload fills empty fields only.

What is written can be changed, and columns an installation adds itself can be filled, through the event ModifyProfileImageMetadataEvent of fgtclb/academic-persons — changelog entry Feature: Decide what a profile image's metadata will be of that extension.

Affected Installations 

Installations that let people upload a profile image in the frontend, in particular those requiring file metadata through typo3/cms-filemetadata or fgtclb/file-required-attributes .