Photos
Show captioned photos kept as table rows on your website. The section reads your current Data rows when the site is prepared; adding it changes only the draft.
Use it when
Choose a new Photos table or an existing table, then the photo, title, image description, caption and credit columns. Rows appear in ascending Order, up to 60. Supplied captions, credit and alt text are retained. Add a useful image description to every photo before publishing; the settings remind you to choose that column.
Use something else when
Use Gallery for a selected snapshot from a Drive folder. Photos is the row-based option when captions and photographer credits matter; it does not move those rows into a folder or discard their metadata.
How to add it
Open My Sites, then open your site in the editor.
- Under the site's sidebar, press Add item.
- Press Add to site.
- Choose Photos. Search finds it faster.
- Under Table, choose New table and its name, or Use existing table and the authoritative table you already keep. Choose New table type only for a new table.
- Check the public columns and row conditions. For different column IDs, enter your table's own IDs rather than the suggested defaults. Optional columns can be empty.
- Press Review changes and check the actual changes.
- Press Apply.
A row for the table appears in this site's sidebar. The table keeps its records and its own record window; no separate app sidebar entry is added for site content. A calendar-view table can also be worked from your business's Calendar.
How to put it on a page
- Open the table in the site's sidebar, then its line under On the website.
- Check Shows only, Order, How many and Public columns. Save changed settings. Removing a condition widens the rows shown: review privacy before doing that.
- Press Put on a page, choose a page, then press Put it here. This explicitly writes the selected section markup into that draft page.
- Preview the result. Press Publish only when you want the draft to go live.
After placement, Fields can map each placeholder to another readable column without rebuilding the page. Adding or removing a displayed part needs Put on a page again; review that replacement if your page has custom markup. Saving conditions changes which rows the existing markup reads without changing its appearance. Multiple placements of the same table live inside its website settings, not as extra CMS table rows.
What it adds or changes
- Table: New or existing; only your chosen public columns
Adds a website section · publication is separate
Settings
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Table | Choose a new or existing table for this section; a new table is selected by default. | {"mode": "new", "name": "Photos"} |
| New table type | Choose the type of table to create; the default is Photos. | Photos |
| How many | Choose the maximum number of rows shown on your website; the default is 60. | 60 |
| Words on the website | Choose the column used for headings; the default is Title. | f_title |
| Photo | Choose the column used for photos; the default is Photo. | f_photo |
| Image description | Choose the column used for image descriptions for people who cannot see the photos; the default is Alt. | f_alt |
| Caption | Choose the column used for photo captions; the default is Caption. | f_caption |
| Credit | Choose the column used for photo credits; the default is Credit. | f_credit |
| Order | Choose the row order; the default is lowest Order first. | [{"field": "f_order", "direction": "asc"}] |
| Other public columns (comma-separated IDs) | Choose extra columns to show with their labels; none are selected by default. | [] |
Example
A venue shows performance photos with each photographer’s credit and its own descriptions for visitors who cannot see the images.
If something isn't working
- A column is missing. Choose a readable column of the selected table; an incompatible mapping is refused without changing your draft.
- No rows appear. Check the conditions, dates, count and the row values, then prepare/preview the site again. An empty section shows its normal no-content message.
- A dated section needs a time zone. Set the business's time zone in Business profile. Date-only rows are never interpreted in the server's time zone.
- The draft changed while saving. Reload and review the latest settings. Your live site is unchanged until publication.
Limits
Descriptions are never invented. Originals and web renditions remain under Drive’s existing image permissions and bounds; adding a section grants no rights to someone else’s photo.
Changing a supplied type never rewrites an existing site's custom page. Older sections already installed keep working; adopting the general section is a separate reviewed draft configuration/source change that keeps the existing table and use identity. Removing a placement does not delete its table or records. Nothing sends, spends or publishes automatically.