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Group consecutive documents in timeline
If many documents are uploaded to a ticket, change, or problem within a certain timeframe (1 hour?), show them together in a gallery format. If another type of item is added between uploads, create a new gallery. To avoid formatting issues, non-images will need a placeholder image as currently nothing is displayed for those items.
This could be a preference setting for users. Willing to work on PR if there is interest in this.
A very rough example (needs formatting fixed for oversized images, and show the document icon somewhere):
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