Panel select box with files from another page

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1

I’m trying to have something in my blueprint that would look like this:

  documents:
    label: Associated Documents
    type: structure
    style: table
    fields:
      filename:
        label: Document
        type: select
        options: files

Except, with the file list coming from a different page where all of the documents are stored instead of having them scattered through the pages (also there is a fair bit of overlap) I took a look at “hooks,” but I’m having trouble understanding how to use them. Any tips? thank you!

2

I don’t quite understand what you want to do with hooks here? What exactly do you want to achieve?

3

Just a selectbox (in a structured field) with a list of files that originate from a different page.

4

Oh, I see, you can use

documents:
  label: Associated Documents
  type: structure
  style: table
  fields:
    filename:
      label: Document
      type: select
      options: query
      query:
        page: the_name_of_page
        fetch: files
5

Cooool, thank you. I don’t know how I missed the “query” option in the documentation.

6

OK, so, I ended up with this:

    manuals:
        label: Manuals
        type: structure
        style: table
        fields:
          filename:
            label: Document
            type: select
            options: query
            query:
              page: manuals
              fetch: files
              value: '{{filename}}'
              text: '{{filename}}'

But, I’m having a little trouble in the template code. So far I have:

<?php foreach($page->manuals()->toStructure() as $pdf): ?>
	<li>
		<a href="../manuals/<?php echo $pdf->filename() ?>" target="_blank">
			<?php echo $pdf->filename() ?> [<?php echo $pdf->niceSize() ?>]
		</a>
	</li>
<?php endforeach ?>

(sorry the indentation is gone, I can’t get the four space thing to work at the moment)
So, to get the link to point to the right place I have that relative path which works fine (but possibly isn’t best practice?), but it’s not retrieving the niceSize. This isn’t crucial, but would be nice.

7

You need to convert the filename to a file object:

$file = $page->file($pdf->filename());

It will have all properties like url and niceSize.

Please click the edit button of your post. I have fixed your code block syntax there and you can take a look at it (basically three backticks and in separate lines).