Can I Show an Image from Another Table as a Card Cover?

[Pablo_DV]

Hello everyone,

@Benn_Bennett already asked this question, but unfortunatelly there was no answer.

The only way I managed to show the image at all in a table was setting the column (with a filter formula) as a text, but I guess that’s the reason why it doesn’t work when you want to use this image as a card cover in card view. Has anybody found a way to make this work?

Edit:

Here you have a doc where I show the issue I’m having:

Can I Show Image from Another Table as a Card Cover?

Does anyone know how to link images and make them card covers? There are really two things I don’t know how to do here: I want to auto-populate a (image) row in a table. The test doc is here: I’d love, if possible, to take that image in a card view of that same table and make it the card “cover”. Is that possible? I read this: Can I display an image in a cell from another table? And that’s sort of what I’m looking for, but the formula isn’t working for me, I suspect because of the “dist…

[Pch]

Hi @Pablo_DV !

I’m not currently in front of my computer but something that could work would be to store your images in their own table with 2 columns : one simple text field for a name you might want to give to an image and an image field.
Then in your other table add a lookup field from the table where your images are stored and then add a related column from the lookup to get you image in the table where you want to use the image as a row cover

Something else that can be done with images is move them by using a button (with a ModifyRows() action formula). It might not be the most practical way to do this though … But it’s still a way

Being away, these are the first things that came to mind at the moment

[Pablo_DV]

Hi @pch,

You second proposal probably will work for the use-case I had in mind, thanks!

But I’m still curious if it can be solved via formulas for other use-cases.

I editited my original post to put a sample doc to clarify the issue, because I’m not sure if I’m missunderstanding your first proposal.

[Pch]

I’m still away but thanks for sharing !

And for the “lookup suggestion”, here you go @Pablo_DV

Take a look at the table Tasks where I got the image from the table [Task Type] through the lookup [Task Type]

As for the view [View of Tasks] I just needed to select the new image field as Cover image in Options → Cards display

I hope this helps !

[Pablo_DV]

Oh wow, I was over-complicating this with the filter formula… D’oh!

Thank you very much @Pch !!

[Pch]

No problem @Pablo_DV !

I’m very glad to know this helped you !