Image gallery? help :)

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Hello wonderful Glide community. I’m in love with my app, and not going back, but I am stuck on how the heck to get an image gallery in my app? The short of it is: I am a travel advisor, so a big part of my app is to showcase different properties within my network.

I have tried adding the “file picker” attached to the “multiple image” field per many Youtube videos, but the gallery becomes totally user specific, which isn’t at all what I’m intending. I want every property in that table to have an image gallery that I can upload images to, and that. Help?

Editing to add: is there a Glide template with an existing image gallery I can borrow? I’ve been frustratingly stuck on this and would love to move on to other badass features.

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Are you writing to a user specific column? Are you using Airtable or Google Sheets? The Multiple Images column will only be non user specific if created in a Glide table.

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Hi! I’m using Airtable. I don’t even mind using Glide’s database, but can’t figure that out either.

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The Multiple Images column is not fully compatible with external data sources, so it can only live within Glide, and unfortunately it is stuck as being a user specific column as a result. (This honestly makes no sense to me. I understand that it has to live in Glide, but I do not understand why it’s forced to be user specific. One of those long standing issues that I feel would be really easy to fix.)

A few options for you are:

  • Create a new glide table and migrate your data there.
  • Create a Glide table specifically to hold only your images and relate it to the data in your other table.
  • Load each image into a table as individual rows or into individual columns in the same row. (Don’t use the Multiple Images column)
  • Possibly you could create a multiple images column in your user profile, load that temporarily when you upload images. Add a joined list column to merge it into a comma delimited list of urls. Then add some kind of action flow that copies that comma delimited list of urls into your properties table, where you can then use a Split Text column to convert it back to an array.
  • Probably other creative ways that require a little out of the box thinking.

Basically, your options are to switch to glide tables or find a workaround if you want to use the Multiple Images column normally.

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