Attachment icon and form views in Specify 7

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Hi.
There is a difference between the display of an image attachment in Specify 6 and Specify 7, even though they are sharing the same xml views:

view_sp6
view_sp61183×573 70.3 KB

view_sp7
view_sp71165×550 47.8 KB

Is it possible to display the icon view in Specify 7? If not, how can the Attachment form be configured to choose the fields to display and their layout?

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Hi @sorovi,

Thank you for your post!

Specify 7 does not yet support the “icon” view type (Issue #2432) and I have added you to our list of requestors.

To approximate this, you can modify the form to show the attachments as a form table, but it would be a vertical list:

Embedded in the form:

Form table attachments
Form table attachments1482×1520 156 KB

In a button dialog:

image
image1920×1879 271 KB

To modify the fields you see next to the image in Specify 7, you need to modify the Attachment form definition in the form definition XML. It looks like you have already customized this in your database!

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Thanks for the reply and for adding the feature request.
I did try to modify the ObjectAttachment and CollectionObjectAttachment view definitions, which I copied from global.views into my fish.views, but I did not like much the result. I will try your suggestion of a form table in a button dialog.
Cheers