When you have a field designed to accept multiple images (e.g. a photo gallery field) there is no way currently to just display the first image. This would be very useful for teasers.

I wrote my own very simple custom module to achieve this. I'm sorry I don't have time to patch media module, but hopefully this code will help someone dealing with the same problem. (this works for both 'media' and 'image' field types)

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#1 media-1038962.patch3.2 KBChris Gillis
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Chris Gillis commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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new media-1038962.patch3.2 KB

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Scott J commented

Chris,
Thank you! Do you know how many years people have been asking for just such a formatter for imagefield? I've been doing this with a field.tpl.php file, but it's nice to be able to just turn it on in content type display settings.

Now, if we could just choose the number of images to display...

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babycourageous commented

This is fantastic.
Would the code for a D6 version be much different?

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Scott J commented

Rene,
Try ImageField Single for D6.

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FrequenceBanane commented

no review for this patch ?

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steve.m commented

The custom module works for me. I'm using it via views with no problems. I turned it into the singleimage module (search and replace 'custom_' to 'singleimage_' and rename the files/directory) and it works fine. Thanks for this!

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Status: Needs review » Closed (won't fix)

This feature is out of scope for the Media module. Feel free to create a sandbox project for this or make it a full module.

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Issue summary: View changes

A work around for drupal 11, without adding extra modules such as Display Suite, is using Views:

  1. Hide the image field in the content type display
  2. Add a View with only the image (check the box for "Display all values in the same row", and set display to "1")
  3. Add a Contextual filter using ID (Content ID from URL)