Hi Robin, thanks for the tip with the start date - great idea.
I've seen it mentioned on this forum that PageTables are superior to Repeaters... My understanding is that the pages created by PageTables require names - these can be entered manually or automatically generated from the title field (which for the case of my repeating description/image unit, is unnecessary) or using an 'Automatic Page Name Format'. If Repeater fields essentially do the same thing, only storing the repeating unit pages somewhere obscure in the admin category with no need to explicitly specify a name, then am I OK to continue using Repeater fields for this purpose? While I like the idea of the repeated bio pages being children of the band in question, does it really matter?
Somehow I managed to completely miss the 'link selected pages to page editor' setting on my band page field! Now I can update band descriptions as I create new events. Is this a fairly recent addition? I even tried installing the AdminPageFieldEditLinks module (which appears to do the same thing), but this threw an error whenever I tried to edit an event page, all of which contain that band page field.
I was also wondering if it's possible to view selected fields, e.g. the latest description/image from the referenced band page, in a page field, perhaps in tabular form similar to how a PageTable is presented? It would be useful to view such details at-a-glance when bands are added to new events, so it can be easily determined whether the latest revision of their info is still accurate. Each row (page) could then be clicked on to bring up the modal page editor window. Unfortunately, PageTables in their current implementation do not let you reference existing pages.
I found a couple of old threads about this... I know you can set a custom label format for pages listed in the page field but this will not work well with paragraphs or images, nor are there sortable columns.
https://processwire.com/talk/topic/8497-page-table-meets-page-field/ https://processwire.com/talk/topic/11820-page-field-vs-pagetable-field-differences/