Panel select field: Options from other field

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
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I’m currently trying to populate a select field in the panel with options defined in a field of another page, as it is described here.

content/1-blog/blog.txt

Title: Blog

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Categories: Sports,Media,Life,Society,Design

Now in the blueprint for the blog posts I want to fill a select field with those categories defined in blog.txt above, like so:

site/blueprints/article.php

fields:
  category:
    label: Category
    type: select
    options: field
    field:
      page: blog
      name: categories

But this gives me an empty select field.

What am I missing?!

2

Just to make sure: Are you testing the 2.3.0 beta version?

3

Nope, I’m on 2.2.3 with the Toolkit, Kirby and Panel.

4

This feature is not avaible in 2.2.3, as is stated in the docs, at the right of the headline there is a little badge. It’s a new docs feature, so I guess people have to get used to checking that out first.

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5

Aaah, I see. Well thanks for clarifying, will try 2.3 then :slight_smile:

6

Pls. keep in mind that 2.3 was only released yesterday as a beta and is not ready for production yet.

7

Hopelessly trying to make it work for hours
I would like to have docs versioned as ‘docs/2.2.3/etc’
Better than I tinny little dimmed note at the corner
Never saw the tinny note

My fault :anguished:

8

It’s not just you. We agree with you that the note might be too tiny, so we will improve this.

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9

Hi,

I have the same issue and i’m using the 2.3.2 version

This is a first for me to use Kirby, usually I just do front of websites.
And it’s also a first to get involve in a forum !

Anyway,

I want to define categories with tags in the site parameters and use those categories by a select field in a different page.

So i have something like this :

blueprints/site.yml

producerCategories:
    label: Métiers
    type:  tags

and i want to use them here :

blueprints/producer.yml

categories:
    label: Métier
    type: select
    options: field
        field:
            page: site
            name: producercategories
            separator: ,

Can someone explain to me where am I wrong ?
Thanks

10

Hi @Polyactifs,

welcome to the forum :slight_smile:.

Two issues

  • field may not be indented but must be on the same level as options
  • use / instead if site 
categories:
    label: Métier
    type: select
    options: field
    field:
      page: /
      name: producercategories
      separator: ,
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11

Yeah, it’s working perfectly !
Thanks a lot !

12

Does this also work in kirby 3?

My blueprint looks like this and it isn’t working:

category:
   label: Kategorie
   type: select
   options: field
   field:
      page: ../
      name: categories
      separator: ,
   width: 1/4

“page: …/” for the parent worked in kirby 2.

Thx a lot for some help! :slight_smile:

13

See the docs: https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/panel/fields/select#options-from-other-fields

Should be something like this:

category:
  label: Category
  type: select
  options: query
  query:
    fetch: page("some-page").categories.split
    text: "{{ arrayItem.value }}"
    value: "{{ arrayItem.value.slug }}"
14

Thx a lot! I somehow overlooked this particular docs-article…

My code now looks like this and works fine:

  category:
    label: Category
    type: select
    options: query
    query:
      fetch: page.parent.categories.split
      text: "{{ arrayItem.value }}"
      value: "{{ arrayItem.value.slug }}"