How to link images from Assets Manager to CMS Page

I’m unable to find an option to link an image from my assets manager to my CMS page. My assets manager contains hundreds of images organized neatly into folders. However, in my CMS page settings, I can’t seem to locate the option to link these images. Is it necessary to upload images manually? This seems rather chaotic, especially since the images are already stored in my assets manager.

I appreciate any assistance in understanding how Webflow envisioned this process.

hi @Suzanne1 it is not possible as CSM and Assets are two independent entities. Your images should be included in your CMS collection. For example an Article from collection Posts can have hero img field, images included in RTE field or collection of images field (check limitations) etc. etc.

The only way (not practical) is to take image URL (from image in assets) and manually add URL into field in CMS. :man_shrugging:

Hi @Stan is it any posibilty to use in image on more places of web and no need to upload twice or moretimes ? we work with cms and i need to have control of images… when we need to make update than will be all photos updated… is it here any solution for this in webflow… i still dont understand why is not possible link image file from assets in to cms.

You might have noticed that the CMS really does not “know” anything at all about the main project. Besides assets, you cannot link from a CMS item to a page on your site without specifying the actual URL path.

As Stan said, it’s a separate system.

No. In fact, even outside of the CMS you cannot update images. You can only upload new ones and then go through your referencing image elements and swap in the new ones.

The only way you could reasonably achieve this is to use a 3rd party image host for your images in which you can replace them while maintaining the same URLs.

Then in your main design, you’d replace all image elements with custom elements, where you can specify the source as an external URL.

In the CMS, you’d store a link field with the URL to that image, and inform your custom elements similarly by databinding the src.

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Pour lier des images depuis l’Assets Manager à une page CMS, téléchargez d’abord les images dans l’Assets Manager. Ensuite, dans l’éditeur de la page CMS, insérez les images en sélectionnant l’option d’ajout d’image, puis naviguez jusqu’à l’emplacement de l’image dans l’Assets Manager. Une fois sélectionnée, l’image sera liée et affichée sur la page.