Hi all!
i have a website that uses plenty of extrafields for a catalogue of products.
Now i need to create a second gallery and a slideshow per product/item and even more custom showcases in the future.
So i though of adding for example 5 image extra fields at the extra fields group i have assigned already, pull these images from widgetkit (or any other gallery/slideshow component) and present it as gallery/slideshow etc via shortcode.
BUT in the above case the 5 images will show anyway as ... images.

i read this reply from Fotis (www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/49619-extra-fields#169013), which is very helpful in order to separate each extra field.
Could in some way extend this and exclude the 5 image fields from displaying in the item page?
Or any other possible solution about the matter actually ... :)

ok so this went really bad. i started to have conflicts. I am not but a very basic coder so i gave up.
Instead i decided to create a custom plugin which seems more appropriate.

i managed to show 4 upload fields in item edit page (content tab) but obviously something is missing cause after i click save nothing is uploaded or nothing is shown to be uploaded.
this is the part of my .xml file with the form fields:
Are there any examples of custom k2 plugins with image uploading?

unfortunately there will be 8 to 10 images with same amount of thumbnails. Thumbs being different images. I started with extra fields but there where so many "if" that my code was for laughs. I tried to use increments but i couldn't cause extra fileds alias do not accept numbers for some reason. My thought was to have aliases like "photo1" "photo2" etc.
Anyway so you suggest it is hard to use upload fields for k2 plugin?
Any existing plugins that use this method?