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Custom content with custom product list
How do you make a custom content page where the editor or admin is able to select or input a list of products?
Say
Product 1
< product dropdown >
[add another]
Product 2
< product dropdown >
The end goal is to make a custom catalog page which gets interpreted by Perch and where the product images are also pulled. Makes sense?
Have you looked at the Shop app?
Drew. Yeah. What kind of template do we have to create to do this specifically? Is it possible to do a dropdown of all products? We have thousands.
Or maybe we are better off asking the editor to write the ID of the product?
Are you trying to create a page or an edit form?
Trying to create a publicly accessible page where the products in said catalog page are selected by the editor or admin.
Right, so both, but what was your ascii art picture of? The display on the input?
Correct. What we imagine giving the customer as custom content for him to enter. Maybe only one text input where he inputs the product ID or sku? don't know how to approach this.
It sounds like you'd want a product field type for that. There's one on the roadmap but not in production yet.
Hi Lexi - I have done this by having a simple text box where the editor entered the product slug they wanted displayed. It was not particularly elegant and required copy-pasting from the URL or product page, but did the trick.
Thanks for your help everyone. We are going to add a custom field called ''catalog'' to all products and bring said products from an external database. Linking them in the middle of the process.