Super Dropdown plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

A custom field for the Craft CMS for building multiple and hierarchical dropdown fields from native elements or data.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-beta.23 or later.

Installation

You can install Super Dropdown via the Craft plugin store, or Composer.

Craft Plugin Store

Navigate to the Plugin Store section of your Craft Control Panel, search for Super Dropdown, and click the Add To Cart, Install , or Try button.

Composer

1. From your project directory:

    composer require veryfinework/super-dropdown
   

2. Either install the plugin from the Craft Control Panel under Settings > Plugins and click the Install button for Super Dropdown, or, finish the installation from the command line:

    ./craft install/plugin super-dropdown
   

Overview

This plugin transforms structured data into series of linked dropdowns. The data source can be Categories, Entries, or any JSON data that is properly formatted. The JSON data may be static or dynamic. Dynamic data can be supplied by Twig templates using the complete Craft API. Static JSON can simply be pasted into the field definition, or provided by a Twig template.

Documentation

Find complete documentation here.

Some Things You Can Do With this Plugin

• Create a single dropdown from JSON data (static or dynamic)
• Create a set of adjacent dropdowns that are displayed and saved as a single field
• Create a set of drill-down style dropdowns based on hierarchical data (Categories, Entries, or custom)

The Advantages of a Super Dropdown Field

• Field options can be dynamic
• Simplify selecting Categories and Entries by replacing the the native modal selector with this field.** • Make field layouts in entry forms more compact by combining multiple fields into a single set of dropdowns. • Skip the complications of coding linked dropdowns

Roadmap

• Support for more Craft Elements
• More fine-grained options
• Listening to your requests

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