Repeater matrix with thumbnails?

[heldercervantes]

Apologies if this is redundant, I'm convinced I've seen this discussed here but I just can't find it.

If my memory isn't failing me, I'm sure there's a way of replacing the text links for adding new entries with thumbnails on RepeaterMatrix. I'm using it to create a content blocks solution and want to have a better visual cue of what the block the admin is adding looks like.

Or maybe I'm losing my mind, which is quite possible.

[monollonom]

You’re not losing your mind ? https://processwire.com/blog/posts/new-repeater-and-repeater-matrix-features/#custom-icons-for-repeater-types

[wbmnfktr]

1 hour ago, heldercervantes said:

Or maybe I'm losing my mind, which is quite possible.

You are not alone. You wouldn't believe how many times I looked this up or the custom icons and colors. ?

[heldercervantes]

12 hours ago, wbmnfktr said:

You are not alone. You wouldn't believe how many times I looked this up or the custom icons and colors. ?

I think I might be thinking of RockPageBuilder:
https://www.baumrock.com/en/processwire/modules/rockpagebuilder/docs/quickstart/

[Stefanowitsch]

@heldercervantes Managing Content Blocks Previews with The RockPageBuilder is actually quite nice and super easy:

All you have to do is take a preview-icon-picture and save it directly inside the corresponding block folder. It will show up automatically:

[heldercervantes]

1 hour ago, Stefanowitsch said:

@heldercervantes Managing Content Blocks Previews with The RockPageBuilder is actually quite nice and super easy:

Yeah it's clear now that I was confusing RockPageBuilder with RepeaterMatrix. I probably saw the conversation in its early stages and that's why I wasn't finding anything.

At some point I hacked the file selector module to a similar effect. The user experience was great, but it was a pain to set up using the standard repeater module (had to add all possible fields and then control visibility of each one depending on the chosen file). Eventually I started using RepeaterMatrix instead. I might have a look at Rock's module in a future project, as this one's too far ahead in development and it's hard to add the cost now.

Edited July 26, 2024 by heldercervantes

[heldercervantes]

On 7/25/2024 at 8:35 PM, monollonom said:

You’re not losing your mind ? https://processwire.com/blog/posts/new-repeater-and-repeater-matrix-features/#custom-icons-for-repeater-types

I was looking back at this and I'm wondering, was this feature removed? This post is from 2021, I bought ProFields a little over a year ago, and my copy doesn't have these options. I'm also not finding any info on the blog. @ryan?

[wbmnfktr]

Still working pretty fine here. You define icons and colors in the repeater matrix field > repeater matrix type > item headers.