Hello! I'm following Automad for many years and very impressed with the latest updates. The UI is clean and just great. Now I'm trying to convert a website from Kirby CMS to the Automad and got some questions.. Is there a way to have a variable on a page with a drop-down selector of all photos attached to the page? So instead of typing-in the address of image needed, user can select it from the list. Templating language question. I'm using <@ foreach in ' .jpg, .png' to build a list of thumbails for a gallery on the page. I want to NOT include two images that I'm using on the same page, but not meant to be a part of the gallery? Thank you!

mrkit Hi, thanks a lot! I will try to quickly answer your questions: In the files tab of a page in the dashboard you can copy the URL of an image in the dropdown menu in the left bottom corner of a file's panel. I think the easiest solution for selecting images for a gallery would be to change the pattern to something like *gallery.jpg, *gallery.png and change the file names accordingly.

Thank you! Yeah, I understand that part.. but that is a bit not user friendly. Much nicer would be just to get a pre-build list of all options to choose from. So instead of 1. browsing between a lot of images, then 2. copy the URL, then 3. paste it and save.. user will have only three options to choose from the drop-down (the images that developer allowed to choose from). Is there a way to apply IS NOT to the pattern? Ideally it would be like select all, that are NOT featured_image* otherwise it would be hard for end user to rename all 300+ images to be _gallery ?

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mrkit

Hello!

I'm following Automad for many years and very impressed with the latest updates. The UI is clean and just great.
Now I'm trying to convert a website from Kirby CMS to the Automad and got some questions..

Is there a way to have a variable on a page with a drop-down selector of all photos attached to the page? So instead of typing-in the address of image needed, user can select it from the list.
Templating language question. I'm using <@ foreach in '.jpg, .png' to build a list of thumbails for a gallery on the page. I want to NOT include two images that I'm using on the same page, but not meant to be a part of the gallery?

Thank you!

mad

mrkit Hi, thanks a lot! I will try to quickly answer your questions:

In the files tab of a page in the dashboard you can copy the URL of an image in the dropdown menu in the left bottom corner of a file's panel.
I think the easiest solution for selecting images for a gallery would be to change the pattern to something like *gallery.jpg, *gallery.png and change the file names accordingly.

mrkit

Thank you!

Yeah, I understand that part.. but that is a bit not user friendly. Much nicer would be just to get a pre-build list of all options to choose from. So instead of 1. browsing between a lot of images, then 2. copy the URL, then 3. paste it and save.. user will have only three options to choose from the drop-down (the images that developer allowed to choose from).
Is there a way to apply IS NOT to the pattern? Ideally it would be like select all, that are NOT featured_image* otherwise it would be hard for end user to rename all 300+ images to be _gallery ?

mad

Hi, I think the dropdown for the images is really a good thing. I will take a look at it.
Unfortunately only the standard glob patterns are supported for file selections. Therefore it is not possible to only select files not matching a pattern. But you could add an if statement in combination with a match pipe to exclude those files in a second step:

<@ if not @{ :file | match('/not/') } @> 
    ...
<@ end @>