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Holy crap. That thing is literally a magic wand of goodness. Thank you, that literally changes..... uh... well a lot.

I set the Card image, which I was hoping might be a default.. but would rather just not have it at all as most Posts don't include and image.

Another option would be to have a DB Category as a sub-menu option. Pick the DB and have it be a drop down menu of the Categories. JM

Would it be possible to turn the Database Category Menu in to a menu block that could be used anywhere rather than dependent on the DB Page? Set the relevant DB in the Page Editor. The issue is a DB with a lot of Categories works great on Desktop with the Menu in the sidebar. On mobile it is a problem. It will either sit below or above the Listing view. If it is above you click on a Category and it looks like nothing happens. I can make a page of links and do that. But for 100+ categories it would be nice to have a menu to use. PS... did there used to be a menu block? I don't see how to make one today. JM

Block on page does the trick. Skip access to the Listing View altogether and just have two separate pages with the DB going to the Categories.

So it is specific to the Category I guess. Any ideas for options? Could an app be made by a developer to move a record from one DB to another? Copy that DB and call it an Archive? We could just delete them... but a shame to waste all that content.

Just to add, there are no Sub Categories involved. No Category has a Parent.

I have a Database and I would like to the records to 'expire' as they are organized by date. If I move them to an Expired Category, I was hoping they would no longer show in the Listing View. So setting this to Off, doesn't seem to do that. So what does it do exactly? I thought this would be an option to exclude some Categories from the Listing View. Records moved to this Category still show up in the DB Page Listing View.

This has proven to be pretty unreliable. Is Zapier normally this flaky or did I do something wrong? Followed their steps and it all seemed to make sense..... But it misses a lot of things, and even re running some Zaps not matter what, it just won't work even the the fields are all properly filled out. Have to find another way.

Second this. I'm using Zapier to create events along with DB Records. I assume this would allow Zapier to grab the image from the DB and use it in the Event. JM

It would be great, in a shoot for the stars sense, to have a default image manager. Could be used for Events, DB Listings, Record Headers ect... Something that could places Default images based on Calendars or Categories or even Tags/Field Value. :)

Oops, sorry Jim. I realize a similar post was made by BarneyLongden. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/487175-pages-index-cover-photo/#comment-3028569 I was wondering if anyone had come up with a CSS/template or any other solution to make it work. Listing View, looks great. But when you go into the Record, the Display view uses the same image, with the default rendering of that as very different aspect ratio. I understand you can click it and expand it... but it makes for a very peculiar look.

I guess this will be my solution too, which is really disappointing as it really impacts how things look It is a very peculiar design choice to make given how awesome Pages is otherwise. I get the header image is expandable... but what people first see on the page is what matters a 100x more. Ever single Record will look like what Barney posted above..... I can't sell that to anybody. EDIT: That worked great, thanks Ehren!

Short of separating the Listing image and Record Header image, would it be possible to add the ability to use the Category Cover Image as the Record Listing Image? Perhaps this could be currently done by editing a template? Thanks JM

Have to make a choice... make the listing view look odd, or the record display view look odd. I don't see the advantage of the expandable record image if it looks wrong or broken from the start. Is there any existing solution for this? This same issue exists in the store.... where product images in the previews are cut off because the aspect ratios are very different from the preview to the product images. I've tried playing with different image aspect ratios and can't make anything work.

Went to bed... figured it out.... permissions. Didn't realize I wasn't logged in.

Curious, they show up in the Theme Editor when it is set to mobile, but they don't actually show up on my phone. I don't see any visibility settings based on the format. They are set to show up in both Listing View and Display View. They do not show in either on Mobile. The are just Text fields. Thanks JM

Thanks! I'm always relieved to find out I'm not crazy! 😁

On System blocks you have a Visibility Tab for Desktop / Mobile. I don't see that on Custom blocks, and I don't see anything in the back end either. Is there some other voodoo magic way to do this? Thanks JM

So that is what I did. It seems to work ok, but unclear if such a thing could lead to unforseen problems later. <div class='i-padding_2 i-border-top_3 i-text-align_end'> <a href='{url="app=core&module=feature&controller=featured" seoTemplate="featured_show"}' class='ipsButton ipsButton--secondary ipsButton--small'>{lang="view_all_picks"} <i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-right-long" aria-hidden="true"></i></a> </div> Changed to this. <div class='i-padding_2 i-border-top_3 i-text-align_end'> <a href='{url="app=calendar&module=calendar&controller=view" seoTemplate="calendar"}' class='ipsButton ipsButton--secondary ipsButton--small'>{lang="view_all_picks"} <i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-right-long" aria-hidden="true"></i></a> </div>

Is it possible to copy the relevant bits from one template, change the URL and paste it into the other template?

It is not really possible to get to the whole Calendar from the Events Block. Example below. Thanks JM

I used Zapier to do this. Worked great. I have a new best friend. :)

Dumb dumb... time for bed. Thanks JM

Oops, meant to put this into D&C