X is not supported by FieldtypeImage in selector

[MSP01]

Hi,
I added some custom fields into image using the process descriped here:
https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.142/
 

Now I need to search for pages that have images with certain fields/content in them. But I'm running into a problem. Is it possible to use those fields in a selector?

It seems you cannot just go with $pages->find('images.somefield=something') because it throws an error. While I was using the included tag function in image fields using ('images.tags!=') worked but after replacing it with page reference field for better tagging, I cannot get it to function - nor any other field it seems.

 

[BitPoet]

Searching for values of page reference fields assigned to images is unfortunately not fully supported (yet?). All custom fields for an image are stored in the database as a single JSON string, so things get a bit tricky there and the regular subfield logic of PW doesn't work.

What does work is searching for numeric page ids or full page paths. $pages->find('images.tagpage=1098') should work, as should $pages->find('images.tagpage=/tags/funny/'). $pages->find('images.tagpage.title%=tagtitle') won't work.

[Robin S]

4 hours ago, BitPoet said:

What does work is searching for numeric page ids or full page paths.

The page name also seems to work: $pages->find('images.tags=the-page-name')

And in case it's not obvious, you can also find the page(s) used in the Page Reference field in a separate step and then use that Page/PageArray in the selector because it will be converted to ID(s) when treated as a string.

// Find the tags you want to search for
$search_tags = $pages->find("template=tag, title=blue|green");
// Find the pages with these tags in the images field
$results = $pages->find("images.tags=$search_tags");