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Is there a way to provide multiple images (custom field - file upload) for events? Our client likes to have a image gallery for each event and unfortunately I don't have an idea how to accomplish this in CiviEvent. I thought about a custom field group with repeatable records but those are only available for contacts.

Now Coleman's idea sounds really smart. Here is my tedious recipe.

Add a custom field for the file, and another custom field to then put the path of the file (Why? Because Views doesn't currently play nicely with the file in my experiments)

Then in a View pull in the 'event image path' and 'exclude from display' - then add a Custom text field with something like <img src="[event_image_path_8]"> (which is name of the custom field as Views sees it)

then display the View Block on the Event page(s)

In your case it sounds like you would need multiple fields and then do as a carousel or such like.

Tedious eh ;-)

another late night thought

but may not be possible yet - i forget sometimes where we have got to with drupal and civi linkages

create a node for each event - add all your images to that - then either, make a view to get the node showing on the event page, or get the event links showing on the node

really can't recall if this is possible - sorry - but civi entities may get you close - or we need a 'civi event reference field' similar to the 'civi contact reference field'

@hershel: Little misunderstanding here. Images should not be saved on third party servers, only on the CiviCRM server.

re my earlier thoughts

images for each event are loaded on a node
you have one node per event
you have a field on the node that references the civi event id - ideally an autocomplete but not that hard to just find Event ID and stick it in manually (warning - special sauce required - IRC may be a good place to ask questions and I will flag to eileen if i see any since she cooks up most of our special brews)
you make the View / carousel using standard drupal techniques (notice - special sauce maybe required so we can suck the images in to a block on the correct Event info page but as far as I can think ahead, this could be do-able without any additions to civi-views code)

would be a good addition imo

There is no CiviCRM-way to upload multiple images for an event.

Well, to be fair, there is... the event description field is rich-text, and you can upload as many images as you want to that field.
But it won't do fancy things like a slideshow/lightbox - you'd have to get help from Drupal for that.

I ended up doing this in Drupal.  Created a new content type with multiple file fields, and a custom node.tpl / javascript that displays the files as a slideshow.  A view displayed as a block pulls in all the related events with links to the event registration form (totally bypassing the event info page).

Check out http://bactheatre.org/shows/JamesGiantPeach2014
Or one of the other shows if you are reading this sometime later after James has closed.

FYI - if you are trying to manage / render civicrm file fields /images or external images in drupal and want to apply image styles, I found this module handy: https://www.drupal.org/project/imagecache_external . It caches images locally and apples styles.