Hi Isabel,
The purpose of the carousel is to offer users a way to browse the lower-level digital objects - it does not show descriptions associated with the current level. See:
In version 2.4 and higher, you can disable the carousel via Admin > Settings > Default page elements if you don't want it to display. See:
Note as well that, while AtoM will attempt to fetch a count of lower-level digital objects, the number of thumbnails it loads into the carousel viewer is determined by the global setting for results per page. See:
If you wanted to modify the carousel to show only immediate children, and not all digital object descendants, then you will need to make code changes. I am not personally able to advise you on what these should be, but I can at least point you in the right direction.
The carousel uses a code library called
ImageFlow (which I believe I have mentioned to you in previous threads), so that is what you'll want to search for in the
code repository. Here is the template for the page component:
There are two places where I would recommend beginning your investigations. First, it appears that the criteria for fetching thumbnails to be added to the carousel is being set here:
There is also a function called getDescendantDigitalObjectCount, here, that is currently looking for all descendants, rather than just immediate child descriptions with digital objects:
Those two pages should give you a good starting point for investigation!
Regards,