CMS not registering image in Markdown, showing broken link

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Hi everyone,
I’m having trouble getting a second image field (author_image) from my Markdown frontmatter to display in Elements CMS. My main post thumbnail works fine, but the author image shows a blue question mark.

Markdown Frontmatter:

image: “resources/auto-b.png”
author_image: “resources/author_1.png”

Inspector Settings:

  • Main Image (Working): Type: CMS | Field: {{item.image.src}}
  • Author Image (Broken): Type: CMS | Field: {{item.author_image}} (also tried {{item.author_image.src}} and author_image)

Even if I swap author_image to point to the working auto-b.png file, it still fails.
Is there something specific required to map custom secondary image keys in Elements CMS? Thanks for any help!

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Custom image fields need to use the same nested image structure as the main image. Could you try:

author_image:
  src: resources/author_1.png
  alt: Author portrait

Then use {{item.author_image.src}} for the Image component’s CMS field.

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Thank you Dan, that was IT. :folded_hands:t2: