Image template navigation in panel

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1

I have a page blueprint which is organised into two tabs: content and files.

The content tab is used to collect information related to an artwork, such as the artist, title and year, plus image documentation which can be uploaded as a featured image, or installation views as a blocks image gallery.

The files tab shows all the images which have been uploaded to this page.

When I click the files tab, I want to navigate between all the files in order to be able to add captions to the images, regardless whether or not they have been uploaded as a featured image or in the image gallery block.

Currently the navigation is limited based on the image template, so you can only click through a group of images if the have the same template.

How do I allow the files tab to have navigation between all image templates?

This will allow the user to quickly add a caption to an image, click the navigation to see the next image, add a caption, and so on.

Here is my template:

title: Artwork
navigation:
  status: all
  template: all
status:
  draft: Draft
  listed: Published

tabs:
  content:
    label: Content
    icon: page
    columns:
      main:
        width: 3/4
        sections:
          content:
            type: fields
            fields:
              artist:
                label: Artist
                type: text
                width: 1/2
              title:
                type: text
                disabled: true
                width: 1/2
              year:
                label: 'year'
                type: tags
                options:
                  type: query
                  query: site.index.pluck("year", ",", true)
                required: true
                width: 1/2
            
              installation_views:
                label: 'Documentation: Installation Views'
                type: blocks
                fieldsets:
                  - image-gallery
                max: 1
                help: A selection of the best installation views (max 10.)

              works:
                label: 'Documentation: Singular Works'
                type: blocks
                fieldsets:
                  - image-gallery

  
      sidebar:
        sticky: true
        width: 1/4
        sections:
          meta:
            type: fields
            fields:
              featured_image:
                label: Featured Image
                type: files
                uploads: image # defines the template used
                max: 1
                layout: cards
                size: large
                required: true
                image:
                  back: black

  files:
    label: Files
    icon: images
    columns:
      main:
        width: 1/1
        sections:
          files:
            headline: Files
            type: files
            size: medium
            layout: cards
            info: '{{ file.dimensions }}'
            sortable: true
            batch: true
            limit: 50
2

anyone able to help with this one? thank you!

3

Why not assign the same template to all images? Do they need different blueprints for any particular reason? I’m not aware of a navigation option for files similar to how it works for pages.

4

Hi @texnixe thanks for the reply.

My intention is to use different templates that could contain different image caption information. Sorry to hear it’s not possible to navigation between the different image templates.

I will submit a request for this feature, as I think it would be an enormous help for the functionality in the panel and allow users a cleaner way to access the image caption fields.

5

Upvote here if you would like an option to control Image/file template navigation in panel.

https://kirby.nolt.io/721

thank you all!