Using an Image as a display column, you don't get a thumbnail preview

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Hello @Jean_Pierre_Traets,

I like that when you mouse over a lookup item you trigger the popup window with the related details.
This is useful for an image gallery for quickly peeping at the details of the image-item you are viewing.
Imagine to combine the features of the image-column (thumbnail & lightbox gallery) and the lookup column (mouse over details).

Unfortunately lookup items don’t display the thumbnail.
To work-around this, I’ve implemented the following 2-tables system:

  1. Image catalogue: used for tagging and commenting the file images (1 image per row)
  2. Image grid-gallery: a single cell table used to lookup the items from the catalogue, using this trick
    Mega trick: Formatted tooltips for your table items (with JSON)

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Current issues:

  1. being it a lookup, you get the rounded frame around the thumbnail, wasting precious space.
  2. Even if you have all the image-items loaded into a single cell, the lightbox is independent for each image, which means: when you click on an image you don’t get the useful bottom menu-gallery or the side arrows to turn to the next image-item.
  3. I can display only simple text in the pop up window (like tags), but having problem adding buttons or links (ie to load the proper detail view of the image-item), json is not fun to work with :smiley:
  4. thumbnails sometime fail to load and I have to use a button with a refresh action on the catalogue.
  5. kind of slow overall.
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