Question: creating a widget that displays content from another collection

[hamishtaplin]

So I'm trying to provide a UI that allows my client to select which items from a collection (work) will appear on the homepage and be able to control the order they display (preferably drag and drop).

My initial thought was to create list widget of relationship fields but this isn't the most user-friendly approach.

Is it possible to write a custom widget that pulls data (title, image, etc) from another collection? I can probably implement the drag/drop myself but would be great if there was some existing widget (ie. list) that I could wrap things in.

Here's a copy of my config.

backend:
  name: git-gateway
  branch: master # Branch to update (optional; defaults to master)
media_folder: "static/images/uploads"
public_folder: /images/uploads
collections:
  - name: "work" # Used in routes, e.g., /admin/collections/blog
    label: "Work" # Used in the UI
    folder: "src/pages/work" # The path to the folder where the documents are stored
    create: true # Allow users to create new documents in this collection
    slug: "{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}-{{slug}}" # Filename template, e.g., YYYY-MM-DD-title.md
    fields: # The fields for each document, usually in front matter
      - {label: "Title", name: "title", widget: "string"}
      - {label: "Subtitle", name: "subtitle", widget: "string"}
      - {label: "Vimeo ID", name: "vimeoid", widget: "string"}
      - {label: "Featured Image", name: "image", widget: "image"}
      - {label: "Body", name: "body", widget: "markdown"}
  - name: "pages"
    label: "Pages"
    files:
    - file: "src/pages/home.md"
      label: "Home"
      name: "home"
      fields:
        - {name: "philosophyTitle", label: "Philosophy title", widget: string}
        - {name: "philosophyContent", label: "Philosophy content", widget: markdown}
        - {name: "approachTitle", label: "Approach title", widget: string}
        - {name: "approachContent", label: "Approach content", widget: markdown}
        - label: "Work"
          name: "work"
          widget: "list"
          fields: 
            - {name: "workItem", label: "Work Item", widget: "relation", collection: "work", searchFields: ["title", "subtitle"], valueField: "title" }

[erquhart]

I believe the new multipurpose select widget will do the trick for you once completed: #1100

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[martinjagodic]

Closing as stale and/or outdated.