Is There A Way to Use items.ItemName.state on Pages (not just widgets)?

Hi,
I’m trying to control the background displayed on a layout page, but it looks like the “=item.ItemName.state” or =items[“ItemName”].state that works on a widget does not actually work directly on a layout page.
Tried this:

config:
  label: Panel V2
  layoutType: responsive
  style:
    background-image: ="https://openhab.domain.com/images/background/" + items.PanelBackground.state
    background-size: 100% 100%
    height: 100%

Is there a way to actually do this?
Thanks,
Richie

After further digging it looks like this is NOT possible :(.
Someone else with this issue raised this more customization possibilities of OH3 pages · Issue #970 · openhab/openhab-webui · GitHub
However, it was back in March, so guessing it’s not on the road map.

Richie