How about this?

• ":site:category:page:first" means first image attached to another page
• ":site:category:page:random" means random image attached to another page

Keep things going from least specific, to most specific

Also:

• "category:page:first" means first image attached to another page, from current site
• "page:first" means first image attached to another page, in the _default category
• ":first" means first image attached to the current page (already implemented)

That makes sense. To me it really doesn't matter, but your suggestion might be easier to remember without referring to the syntax help. I say which ever syntax is easiest for writing the parser code is fine.

-Ed

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I've invited you as member.

Oh, and Shane's syntax proposal is right. This would be the grammar, I think:

[ [ [ ":" site ":" ] category ":" ] page ] { ":random" | ":first" | "/filename" }

This would be incredibly useful in the ListPages module. Is this still in the works?

I do not know what exact you need, but " first" is in the documentation implemented.
/filename I have forgotten…

• :first :first :first displays first image attached to the current page (or nothing at all)
• file attachment (different page) /another-page-name/filename /another-page/exampleimage.jpg displays image attached to a different page

• Random was implemented in ListPages as selection parameter

Maybe I have the syntax wrong. Can you help me?

[[image sohwiki:main:resources :first]]

Internally, I would use this as:

[[image main:resources :first]]

Neither seem to work for me.

It would be useful in the list pages module, for giving lists of pages an icon or thumbnail for reference. For instance, this page lists all the devs from Heroic Games: http://sohwiki.com/soh:heroic-games and pulls a thumbnail from each page in the list to display next to the Title Link.

You'll see that in order to get the thumbnail, I had to name all of the images the same name on each individual page. This isn't very intuitive for a newer user. It would be much simpler, and more user friendly to be able to simply call the :first image from every item in my listpages module.

I would use the standard image block with the source = :first ( withoput the caregory:pagename)

[[image  :first]]

For some reason, this syntax does not work for me within the ListPages module block. It produces HTML with ":first" in the source attribute.

Create a new page on any wiki that has images and add the following code to demonstrate the issue:

[[module ListPages category="*" order="created_at desc desc" separate="no" perPage="100"]]
[[div class="panel panel-default" style="min-height: 102px; margin: 2em 0;"]]
[[image :first width="100" link="#" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"]]
++++ %%title_linked%%
%%preview%%
[[/div]]
[[/module]]

This fixed my issue. Thank you!