# Configuring fields for thumbnail mode?
**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/configuring-fields-for-thumbnail-mode/13502
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [July 10, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/configuring-fields-for-thumbnail-mode/13502 "2012-07-10T15:28:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@AKA-Mythos](https://resource.dopus.com/u/AKA-Mythos)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/configuring-fields-for-thumbnail-mode/13502/1 "2012-07-10T15:28:47Z")
I want to configure further meta-data to be shown below the image in thumbnail mode.
But in "File Types / Images" there is only a tab for "Tiles Mode".
Thus I'm wondering how (where) to configure the fields to be used in thumbnail mode?
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### Author:  [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/configuring-fields-for-thumbnail-mode/13502/2 "2012-07-10T15:43:10Z")
You can't; the only options for which metadata is displayed in thumbnails mode is what's in the Preferences page for thumbnails mode. If you want more/different metadata, you have to use tiles mode.
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### Author:  [@AKA-Mythos](https://resource.dopus.com/u/AKA-Mythos)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/configuring-fields-for-thumbnail-mode/13502/3 "2012-07-11T08:05:53Z")
> [@leo](#):
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> If you want more/different metadata, you have to use tiles mode.
If I enable "Show Thumbnails in Tiles mode" I can not use the slider in the toolbar for the thumbnail size of the tiles.
Whant I need is a view showing thumbnails with user defined meta-data and a thumbnail-size-slider in the toolbar.
If this isn't possible I propose to introduce a tiles-size-slider similar as the existing thumbnail-size-slider.
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### Author:  [@Xyzzy](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Xyzzy)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/configuring-fields-for-thumbnail-mode/13502/4 "2012-07-11T08:13:55Z")
Good idea actually. I am struggling with the same problems.
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### Author:  [@AKA-Mythos](https://resource.dopus.com/u/AKA-Mythos)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/configuring-fields-for-thumbnail-mode/13502/5 "2012-07-11T08:32:03Z")
Hmm, it seems that in tiles-mode the thumbnails are not fully loaded for the folder, instead only the tiles are loaded that are visible in the viewport.
If I press page-down I have to wait several seconds until the tiles of the next page are incrementally decoded. 😮
Particurlarly with slow network drives this behaviour makes a navigation of large image collections like walking through honey.