Netlify-cms: Gallery Widget

[hhsnopek]

see TODO.md#gallery-widget

Like the image field, but for a bunch of images that can be reordered, etc.

The list widget with an image widget can do the trick, but galleries are so common that it would be great to have a robust ui for it.

_{(EDIT by @tech4him1 to fix link and add quote)}

[lexoyo]

Hello
I'm interested in widgets in general and a gallery widget in particular
The TODO.md file is missing, do you know if it has been moved or deleted?

[biilmann]

@lexoyo the TODO.md got lost in the process when we switched from the old Ember based ersion to the new React based version, and we're planning on starting to use issues and GitHub projects to track TODOs.

A gallery widget would be super useful - are you interested in helping out creating one?

Could be by contributing code or by working on UI/Design, gathering examples of the best CMS gallery widgets out there, etc...

[lexoyo]

Sure, let me try
But do you think I could start with a slide show widget? It would be more useful to me... Should I open an issue about it? Or should I stick to the gallery widget?

[lexoyo]

Ok so I thought about this and have a question: this would be about making the widget editor and the layout file which displays the gallery or just the widget edtor?

I am trying to get my hands in the code right now

[lexoyo]

This is how squarespace do it

This is how weebly do it but it has front end and admin mixed up (we would handle that with layouts)

[erquhart]

@biilmann I'm thinking the repeatable functionality that's coming will supercede this via repeatable image fields. Is this filling any other gaps you can think of? Otherwise we can close.

[Benaiah]

@erquhart yeah, I think a list widget with a custom preview would handle this use case smoothly.

[erquhart]

The list widget turns out to be a pretty cumbersome setup for uploading a lot of images. An editor, while editing a post, should be able to just drag a bunch of images and drop them.

[PaulEibensteiner]

If someone already created such a custom editor component, could you share it? (@erquhart?)
I do have problems accessing the nested fields and returning a variable amount of regex matches...thx in advance

[erquhart]

This isn't for an editor component, it's for a widget. I'm not aware of anyone having created one yet, that's what this ticket is for. Once created, you would be able to use the widget within an editor component.

[PaulEibensteiner]

I was referring to the possibility of building it as a custom editor component using the functionality of repeatable image widgets inside a list. Curious if anyone did it

[tech4him1]

I do believe @owenhoskins is working on something related to this.

[owenhoskins]

@tech4him1 @PaulEibensteiner I've done some initial explorations into how to tackle this but I am a long way out from a solution as of yet. I'll be able to invest some time over the course of the next few months and would be happy to help if anyone wants to take a stab at it.

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