Missing Photoswipe Views caption: Drupal core's third party settings formatter missing from Views UI

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When you create a view with fields - image fields, there is no option to select a caption.

This option is supported in version 4.

I can confirm this: The "Photoswipe image caption" option is present on the regular Display page of fields (/admin/structure/types/manage/library/display), but it's missing for the same field in a View.

Please let me know if you need more info @anybody.

Adding "Steps to reproduce".

Just setting version to dev, in case a fresh branch needs to be created for an MR at some point :)

Good news, everyone! In #3455963: [5.x] Make Photoswipe work with any ContentEntity entity type @vladdancer shared the cause of the problem, which is in Drupal core #2686145: Formatter third party settings missing from Views UI. After patching Drupal core (Views UI) with the MR from the issue, the PhotoSwipe Caption is available in Views.

Since it's not a PhotoSwipe bug, but we need to heed it, let's turn this issue into a documentation task, adding tips where relevant, like project page, README and documentation pages.

I added a tip in the documentation, and created an MR for the README update, please review.

Administrators: Perhaps you can update the project page, adding something like this? Thanks!

In PhotoSwipe 5 the "Photoswipe image caption" option is present on the regular Display page of image fields (on /admin/structure/types/manage/library/display), but missing for the same image field in a View. The solution is Drupal core issue #2686145: Formatter third party settings missing from Views UI, and you can patch Drupal core until it gets fixed.

Thanks, @ressa!

I added the info to the module page. I'll commit the README change, but we should POSTPONE this issue, until it is fixed in core!

POSTPONED on #2686145: Formatter third party settings missing from Views UI.

Thanks @grevil, just perfect! Adding the tip on the project page, and in the README may save future users a bit of time.

After enabling the caption submodule I click on /admin/config I get the following:

The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later.

ValueError: Path cannot be empty in file_get_contents() (line 76 of modules/contrib/photoswipe/modules/photoswipe_dynamic_caption/photoswipe_dynamic_caption.install).
photoswipe_dynamic_caption_requirements()
call_user_func_array() (Line: 416)
Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleHandler->Drupal\Core\Extension\{closure}() (Line: 395)
Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleHandler->invokeAllWith() (Line: 415)
Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleHandler->invokeAll() (Line: 109)
Drupal\system\SystemManager->listRequirements() (Line: 93)
Drupal\system\SystemManager->checkRequirements() (Line: 122)
Drupal\system\Controller\SystemController->overview()
call_user_func_array() (Line: 123)
Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() (Line: 637)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->executeInRenderContext() (Line: 121)
Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->wrapControllerExecutionInRenderContext() (Line: 97)
Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() (Line: 181)
Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handleRaw() (Line: 76)
Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handle() (Line: 53)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\Session->handle() (Line: 48)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\KernelPreHandle->handle() (Line: 28)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ContentLength->handle() (Line: 116)
Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->pass() (Line: 90)
Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->handle() (Line: 48)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ReverseProxyMiddleware->handle() (Line: 51)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\NegotiationMiddleware->handle() (Line: 36)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\AjaxPageState->handle() (Line: 51)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\StackedHttpKernel->handle() (Line: 741)
Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel->handle() (Line: 23)

Does this relate to the same core problem or should I make a new ticket for this?

@wigglykoala, please open a dedicated issue for this.

You can fix this issue through properly installing the photoswipe caption library (recommended to require via composer: Enable use of third party libraries: https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/using-composer/manage-dependencies#t... and run composer require npm-asset/photoswipe-dynamic-caption-plugin:^1.

But of course this should NOT throw an error.

Is there anyway to fix the caption issue in views for Drupal 10.6.9? Doesn't seem to be any patch for that issue that would work

For those in the same boat, I used https://www.drupal.org/project/glightbox instead

@jglynn The documentation mentioned in comment #13 is the temporary solution, you need to patch Views in Drupal core.

I have updated the workaround mentioned in the Issue Summary under "Proposed resolution" to make this clearer.