@ncwidgets/reorder

Reorder Widget for NetlifyCMS

A widget for netlify-cms to handle custom ordering of a referenced collection. Powered by react-beautiful-dnd

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⚠ Unstable: Under active development

Installation

npm i @ncwidgets/reorder

Demo

Live demo

Example use

• Order items in a grid from another collection (using custom reorder-component).
• Setup a custom order for any collection.

How to use

Example config

Assuming that posts are a separate collection that contains fields id and title.

- label: Featured Posts
  name: featured
  widget: ncw-reorder
  collection: posts
  id_field: id
  display_template: '{{id}} | {{title}}'

Widget specific fields

• collection (required) is the name of the referenced collection.
• id_field (required) is a field in the referenced collection which has to be an unique identifier.
• display_template A string template with fields of the target entry. Use dot notation for nested fields & bracket for array: {{address.zipCode}} | {{categories[0]}}

Read more about configuration options on netlifyCMS.

Register default reorder-component

import cms from 'netlify-cms-app'
import { Widget as ReorderWidget } from '@ncwidgets/reorder'

cms.registerWidget(ReorderWidget)

cms.init()

Register custom reorder-component

import cms from 'netlify-cms-app'
import { createWidget } from '@ncwidgets/reorder'

const ListComponent = ({ item }) => (
  <>
    <strong>{item.title}</strong>
    <p style={{ margin: 0, color: '#798291', fontSize: '0.8rem' }}>{item.id}</p>
  </>
)

const CustomReorderPreview = ({ items }) => (
  <section>
    <hr />
    <p>Custom Widget Preview</p>
    {items.map((item, i) => <p key={i}>{item.title}</p>)}
  </section>
)

const customReorderWidget = createWidget({
  renderControl: ({ value }) => <ListComponent item={value} />,
  renderPreview: ({ value }) => <CustomReorderPreview items={value}/>,
})

cms.registerWidget({
  name: 'custom-reorder',
  ...customReorderWidget,
})

cms.init()

Contribute

Found a bug or a missing feature? Please feel free to send over a PR, or open an issue with the bug or enhancement tag.