Gallery field

[danielbachhuber]

I think we might've discussed this before, but I don't see an existing thread for it.

How would you feel about a gallery field that used the Media Library to pick a selection of images? Using a repeating / sortable media field is a bit janky UX.

[netaustin]

I would welcome such a thing. It's on my long horizon, just over the 100% test coverage hill.

[danielbachhuber]

@netaustin Before I proceed too much further here, I'd love to get your input. UX looks a bit like this (ignore the Media Explorer buttons that are being added):

A collection attribute makes most sense, I think, but it's exposed some shakiness in the underlying Media field and I probably need to refactor the whole thing.

I need gallery management for a couple of clients within two or three weeks, so I'm hoping we can turn this around pretty quick.

[bcampeau]

This would actually solve a use case for me on a couple sites we've worked on. We've just had them use the standard gallery function via the media modal and generate a shortcode because as you said the repeating media field UX isn't efficient. However this locks down the functionality so an editor could only use the field for this purpose which is great. I like this.

[netaustin]

Proceed apace, yeah. The underlying media field was built for the earlier version of the media modal, which was a serious pain to work with, and then mildly refactored when the media browser changed. Probably needs a more serious cleaning.

[mboynes]

I really dig this idea. Where are you at with it @danielbachhuber? Need any assistance?

[danielbachhuber]

Where are you at with it @danielbachhuber? Need any assistance?

60% done. Just need time to finish it up. What sort of test coverage are you looking for?

[mboynes]

We don't have testing for JS (#10), so just the php functionality. Ensure that the field renders properly when setting 'collection' => true, ensure that the values save, and when loading the form, the values load properly. If there's any sort of circumstance where the values could be invalid, the tests should cover that too. There's some good precedent in this file.

[danielbachhuber]

Not sure how VIP is going to feel about this. Might need to add some transparent pagination.

[danielbachhuber]

@mattheu Couple of things still:

• If I'm using an image field with limit => 0, as Fusion is, I'd expect I could use collection => true to turn all of those images into a gallery. The behavior as it exists in this PR is to implement repeatable collections, which introduces a new data structure.
• When I edit the collection, I'd expect it to open the edit gallery experience, not the UI to select images again.

@mboynes @netaustin still interested in this PR, or should we internalize first? what's the backlog like getting something onto VIP?

[mattheu]

Currently you can switch from limit = 0 and collection=false to limit=false and collection=true as the data structure is the same here.

Also If you click a collection to edit - it does already open the edit gallery experience...

[danielbachhuber]

Hmm. Maybe I didn't pull latest. I'll test again today

[danielbachhuber]

My bad on testing — the issues are non-issues.

Because we need this now, we've moved it to a separate repo: https://github.com/fusioneng/fieldmanager-gallery

Happy to pick things up again when there's some direction from the maintainers on where we'd like this to go.

[mboynes]

@danielbachhuber I'd love to finally merge https://github.com/fusioneng/fieldmanager-gallery into FM. Your thoughts? I'm inclined to keep it a separate field rather than add onto Fieldmanager_Media as you did initially. One potential issue is naming -- we don't want to break any sites where your plugin is installed.

[danielbachhuber]

Your thoughts?

I'm open to it.

I'm inclined to keep it a separate field rather than add onto Fieldmanager_Media as you did initially.

Seems reasonable.

One potential issue is naming -- we don't want to break any sites where your plugin is installed.

I suspect this is a half dozen or less. We haven't really given it much promotion, and we only have one site. My bad not changing the name in the first place.

[enrico-sorcinelli]

I just sent a new PR with an updated Fieldmanager gallery version (with unit tests) in order to finally close this thread ;-)

[mboynes]

Closing in favor of #506