It’s very handy but what I have more than 100 pages in my “Notes” section, at example? I will need to scroll all of this pages to select one of them… May be there is a way to search (query) pages by title there? Or another widget exists with search functionality there?
No, I don’t believe there is a search facility on it. But you can use the query language to reduce the list by only display children of the current page for example.
Yes, reducing pages list by query is good idea, but it will work only for limited range of site sections. There is pages where editors must have access to full list of site pages to linking them from pages list field…
In other words, you can set your pages section up in a shared file, and when you use it in the blueprint, you can extend it and overide the query depending on what page it is being used on.
May be we need some other field, not only Pages List widget, but something truly other, like Pages Search widget, with no initial list within, but with drop-down titles while searching/typing?
It will cover many things than will need when creating “many-pages” sites. If you need some kind of “predefined” pages list selector, use Pages field widget, if you need to search pages in wide (or global) range of pages, use Pages Search widget…
On the other side, “universal” Pages List + Search widget will be ultimative solution for cases like mine (and I’ve seen 1-2 topics on this forum with needs like this).
It will gather the collection of pages on initialization. Since it sounds a lot like you would like to have, give it a try (blueprint bit isn’t a lot of work) and see how it performs for your specific case.