Include images in Jekyll collection

Help
1

I have custom collections for my Jekyll project:

collections_dir: events
collections:
  event1:
    output: true
    permalink: /:collection/:title
    sort_by: date
  event2:
    output: true
    permalink: /:collection/:title
    sort_by: date

And it’s my directory structure:

project
├── _config.yml
└── events
    ├── _event1
    │   ├── images
    │   │   ├── title1.jpg
    │   │   └── title2.jpg
    │   ├── title1.md
    │   └── title2.md
    └── _event2
        ├── images
        │   ├── title3.jpg
        │   └── title4.jpg
        ├── title3.md
        └── title4.md
  • I have two events collection
  • Every collection has some docs
  • Every doc needs an image

Problem

Currently, I should manually put all images in the assets folder so I can use them like this /assets/img/event1/title1.jpg :

project
├── _config.yml
├── events
└── assets
    └── img
        └── event1
            ├── title1.jpg
            ├── title2.jpg
            ├── ...
            └── ...

It’s very hard to manage image assets for every collection because I have many of them. Is there any solution that every collection has its own asset folder ( Like the first directory tree ) and Jekyll’s build process copies them in the final _site directory?

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work. Jekyll will pick one image of every extension from every collection, rename it to the collection’s name ( event1.jpg / event1.png ) and copy that to the site’s root and return an error message for other ones:

Conflict: The following destination is shared by multiple files.
          The written file may end up with unexpected contents.
          /<project>/_site/event1.jpg
           - /<project>/events/_event1/images/title2.jpg
           - /<project>/events/_event1/images/title3.jpg
           - /<project>/events/_event1/images/title4.jpg

I don’t understand this behavior. Do you have any idea how to do this?

2

hmm, thats sounds weird, I think it could work.

This post seems to show what you want working (I think)- answer at the bottom:

If you were not using collections I think this works - ie - jekyll copies static files to the same location in the _site folder. You could use front matter variables to loop thru things though collections is simpler and less cpu intense.

3

hmm, that is your question lol. Did you see that answer? did it not work?