Compound objects "multiple" icon

[SergioAlias]

Reference webpage and code:

• https://sascards.github.io
• https://github.com/SASCards/SASCards.github.io

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Hello and thank you for your work.

As stated in the documentation:

In CollectionBuilder-GH, compound objects will be represented by icons in visualizations.

I'm creating a business card collection that uses "multiple" items to store 2 images (front and back of the business card). I would like to set the front image as the default in visualizations instead of the current icon showed:

Current behaviour

Wanted behaviour

Instead of that icon, use the first image of the "multiple" item, or any image specified by user in metadata.

What I already tried

• Add the filename to the parent item filename field

[evanwill]

@SergioAlias it is technically possible to customize CB-GH to implement what you are asking, but it will involve editing parts of every page layout. Honestly, the easiest approach would be to use collectionbuilder-csv instead, which supports what you want by default.

Migrating into to CB-CSV from -GH is pretty straightforward. All the configuration and metadata that you have in your current project are transferable into a CB-CSV project. The main difference is that CB-CSV adds the columns "object_location", "image_thumb", and "image_small" to the metadata, instead of using the "filename" field that CB-GH depends on.
CB-GH does not use thumbnails, instead using the full sized image for as listed in your "filename" field. CB-CSV supports adding thumbnail and small images for any object type--however, you could just use the same image like CB-GH does.
To migrate You can take your "filename" field and use it to fill in the "object_location" field by adding /objects/ in front of the filename value, e.g. /objects/demo001.jpg or /objects/demo002.pdf. For the image items, you would then fill in "image_small" and "image_thumb" fields with exactly the same value. For your parent "multiple" item, you would fill in the "image_small" and "image_thumb" fields with which ever image you want to use as the representative image.

Building a CB-CSV project on github pages is pretty straightforward now too (just barely more difficult than standard GH Pages!).

[SergioAlias]

Thank you so much for your quick response @evanwill ! It looks like I completely misunderstood what a CB template is, so I was discarding the one without GH in the name before looking more in-depth. I'll migrate my project. Thanks!