Repeater Field

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Last Post: Yesterday at 7:19pm   (RSS)

Hello Interactive tools, i was wondering how would it be possible to have a Repeater Field similar ACF(https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/repeater/),

this is would be very useful for adding functionality such as FAQ, Tabs, Sliders etc.. at the time being you would have to create a multi record  for faq as example and assign each question to a separate section probably called faq category and then add that to 3rd section that is used for pages

By jasmar222 - January 14 - edited: January 14

+10

a life-long dream of mine as well.

Hey all, 

Great suggestion.  We'll put that on the list and look into how to implement it.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Are we there yet?!!??  ;-)

I realize it's a recent request. I do not expect it immediately of course...just submitting my approval for a GREAT request! 

Hi Codee, 

We're busy working on the next release, which is probably 1-2 weeks out before the beta, but can revisit repeater fields in the future.

Can you give me an example use case?  How you'd actually be using it.  e.g., What's a real-world example of some fields you'd be repeating? 

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Hi Codee, 

We're busy working on the next release, which is probably 1-2 weeks out before the beta, but can revisit repeater fields in the future.

Can you give me an example use case?  How you'd actually be using it.  e.g., What's a real-world example of some fields you'd be repeating? 

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

By moh3 - Monday at 11:54am - edited: Monday at 11:57am

hello i will provide some use cases as follows: FAQ, Tabs, Sliders, Accordions, example i have a service page where i need to add FAQ related to that service i could add question and answer and repeat that field group as much as needed , same goes for a slider where i have image, caption , and link .

This could be done as added on my 1st post using a several sections , but with this functionality it would expand the CMS to ultra flexible.

On the side note if i created a page builder (drag and drop) integrated within the CMS, would anyone be interested to help in expanding it to be production ready and available as a plugin?

i do have it as beta but the file uploads is a challenge and having it working with boostrap without conflicts in columns 

Staff bios: name, title, bio, photo, linkedin profile

faqs: question, answer, tags

sliders: photo, headline, text, link

feature block: photo, icon, text, link

Drag sort order would suffice, though being able to order by a particular field would be nice  

Forcing min/max entries would also be nice to have

An additional field (that I can't believe I overlooked) is a list field for colors that can be applied to fonts, backgrounds, etc. as a dropdown.  For example, one client's list of colors - used with multiple fields in the same cmsb section, and used in nearly every cmsb section for that site is:

FFFFFF|white
000000|black
D60034|cluff red
ED6E77|aged red
FF0000|red
800000|deep maroon
E6E6E6|very light grey
C0C0C0|light grey
202020|dark gray
808080|smoke gray
404040|charcoal
FFF8DC|corn silk
A3D3FF|light blue
BD80BE|light pink
FE8A8A|light coral
FFC4AD|very light salmon
F5DEB3|wheat
DEB887|burlywood
D2B48C|tan
FFEFCF|faint sandy
F5B151|deep sand
F5B937|matte gold
94287E|warm purple
D8BFD8|thistle
E6E6FA|lavender

So, a repeater field would seem to be a great idea to avoid recreating this 20+ times on a site.  Maybe there is another way to do this: If there was a place to put the master list of color choices one time, and be able to reference that list (related record?)...but it seems a repeater field for this may be most appropriate.  Am I thinking correctly with repeater fields?