Frontend ignores image sorting via panel

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
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Sorry about Friday. I was getting frustrated, I know it doesn’t excuse my actions but there it is.

The source of my problem arises from the re-structuring of my blueprints.

Broken pages/album.yml

# TABS
tabs:

  # TAB: Photos
  tabPhotos:
    label:
      en: Photos
      de: Photos
    icon: image

    # SECTIONS
    sections:

      # SECTION: Photos
      photos:
        type: fields
        fields:

          # images
          images:
            type: files
            label:
              en: Files
              de: Files
            template: photo
            image:
              cover: true
              ratio: 5/4
            info: "{{ file.dimensions }}"
            layout: cards
            min: 3
            required: true
            size: small

Working page/album.yml

# TABS
tabs:

  # TAB: Photos
  tabPhotos:
    label:
      en: Photos
      de: Photos
    icon: image

    # SECTIONS
    sections:

      # images
      images:
        type: files
        label:
          en: Files
          de: Files
        template: photo
        image:
          cover: true
          ratio: 5/4
        info: "{{ file.dimensions }}"
        layout: cards
        min: 3
        required: true
        size: small

The problem was that files were ignoring the file blueprint and when saving an album, it would simply write the images in their order on the album.txt file and not store the sort order on the image.txt file.

After removing the section called photos that has a type of fields and making images the section with a type of files, everything works as expected.

If someone could shed some light on why / what’s wrong that would be great - I’m assuming I should be able to put type: files in a section of type: fields? If yes, i’m assuming that I should expect the same behaviour no matter where I put my type: files whether it be it’s own section or nested in another one.