Re-use region content as options for editor in another region

This is very doable and a fieldtype called dataselect exists for exactly this. I can dig it up if you can't find it.

Thanks Rob! Looking into it.

So I'd like to pull data from multiple repeater regions on a template. Since they are repeaters, the ID of the items in those repeaters all have the same name --> id="tag"

From this help page it shows pull a region data by it's page, and ID. But what about repeaters? Do I idenitfy them by the ID of the repeater they are inside? https://docs.grabaperch.com/templates/field-types/dataselect/

I've not used this dataselect with a repeater so I am not sure.... Can you show me the template, as this may help me to understand what you hope to happen.

Sure, this is what I have - 6 groups of dropdown filters for an isotope grid. I'm looking to pull the "tag" ID data from EACH one of the filters.

It seems like it would be inefficient to make 6 different data selects. Any thoughts? (thanks in advance!)

 <div class="button-group filters-button-group multi-select-menu col-md-10 col-xs-12">

<!-- ********** GROUP 1 ********** -->
<div class="col-md-2">
        <select class="option-set clearfix form-control filterfields" data-filter-group="group1">
        <option value="*" data-filter-value="" class="selected"><perch:content id="filter-group-name1" type="text" label="Category" help="E.g. Industry" divider-before="Filter Dropdown Menu 1" /></option>
            <perch:repeater id="filter-group-1"  order="" label="Options" >
                    <option data-filter=".<perch:content id="tag" type="text" label="Unique Tag" required="true" help="CaSE SENSITIVE! Add a tag from the card you have previously made."   />"><perch:content id="filter-menu-item" type="text" required="true" label="Filter Name" help="As it will appear in the drop-down menu." order="4" /></option>
            </perch:repeater>
         </select>
</div>
<!-- ********** END GROUP 1 ********** -->

<!-- ********** GROUP 2 ********** -->
<div class="col-md-2">
        <select class="option-set clearfix form-control filterfields" data-filter-group="group2">
        <option value="*" data-filter-value="" class="selected"><perch:content id="filter-group-name2" type="text" label="Category" help="E.g. Industry" divider-before="Filter Dropdown Menu 2" /></option>
            <perch:repeater id="filter-group-2"  order="" label="Options" >
                    <option data-filter=".<perch:content id="tag" type="text" label="Unique Tag" required="true" help="CaSE SENSITIVE! Add a tag from the card you have previously made."   />"><perch:content id="filter-menu-item" type="text" required="true" label="Filter Name" help="As it will appear in the drop-down menu." order="4" /></option>
            </perch:repeater>
         </select>
</div>
<!-- ********** END GROUP 2 ********** -->

<!-- ********** GROUP 3 ********** -->
<div class="col-md-2">
        <select class="option-set clearfix form-control filterfields" data-filter-group="group3">
        <option value="*" data-filter-value="" class="selected"><perch:content id="filter-group-name3" type="text" label="Category" help="E.g. Industry" divider-before="Filter Dropdown Menu 3" /></option>
            <perch:repeater id="filter-group-3"  order="" label="Options" >
                    <option data-filter=".<perch:content id="tag" type="text" label="Unique Tag" required="true" help="CaSE SENSITIVE! Add a tag from the card you have previously made."   />"><perch:content id="filter-menu-item" type="text" required="true" label="Filter Name" help="As it will appear in the drop-down menu." order="4" /></option>
            </perch:repeater>
         </select>
</div>
<!-- ********** END GROUP 3 ********** -->

<!-- ********** GROUP 4 ********** -->
<div class="col-md-2">
        <select class="option-set clearfix form-control filterfields" data-filter-group="group4">
        <option value="*" data-filter-value="" class="selected"><perch:content id="filter-group-name4" type="text" label="Category" help="E.g. Industry" divider-before="Filter Dropdown Menu 4" /></option>
            <perch:repeater id="filter-group-4"  order="" label="Options" >
                    <option data-filter=".<perch:content id="tag" type="text" label="Unique Tag" required="true" help="CaSE SENSITIVE! Add a tag from the card you have previously made."   />"><perch:content id="filter-menu-item" type="text" required="true" label="Filter Name" help="As it will appear in the drop-down menu." order="4" /></option>
            </perch:repeater>
         </select>
</div>
<!-- ********** END GROUP 4 ********** -->


<!-- ********** GROUP 5 ********** -->
<div class="col-md-2">
        <select class="option-set clearfix form-control filterfields" data-filter-group="group5">
        <option value="*" data-filter-value="" class="selected"><perch:content id="filter-group-name5" type="text" label="Category" help="E.g. Industry" divider-before="Filter Dropdown Menu 5" /></option>
            <perch:repeater id="filter-group-5"  order="" label="Options" >
                    <option data-filter=".<perch:content id="tag" type="text" label="Unique Tag" required="true" help="CaSE SENSITIVE! Add a tag from the card you have previously made."   />"><perch:content id="filter-menu-item" type="text" required="true" label="Filter Name" help="As it will appear in the drop-down menu." order="4" /></option>
            </perch:repeater>
         </select>
</div>
<!-- ********** END GROUP 5 ********** -->



<!-- ********** GROUP 6 ********** -->
<div class="col-md-2">
        <select class="option-set clearfix form-control filterfields" data-filter-group="group6">
        <option value="*" data-filter-value="" class="selected"><perch:content id="filter-group-name6" type="text" label="Category" help="E.g. Industry" divider-before="Filter Dropdown Menu 6" /></option>
            <perch:repeater id="filter-group-6"  order="" label="Options" >
                    <option data-filter=".<perch:content id="tag" type="text" label="Unique Tag" required="true" help="CaSE SENSITIVE! Add a tag from the card you have previously made."   />"><perch:content id="filter-menu-item" type="text" required="true" label="Filter Name" help="As it will appear in the drop-down menu." order="4" /></option>
            </perch:repeater>
         </select>
</div>
<!-- ********** END GROUP 6 ********** -->



</div> <!-- end button group -->

OK, I have met my challenge, I have no idea how to help you here... sorry.

However, I can tell you when I copied your template into a working copy of perch I got this warning (12) times. You can't use - in an ID. Underscores, CamelCase, numbers are OK.

Template tag ID ‘filter-group-name1’ contains disallowed characters

Thanks for offering anyway Rob. The character are ok - the warning is just that. I've committed to that naming convention so I can't really change it.

Hoping someone else can help?

Leigh,

I know you say it's just a warning, but if you ignore it, your likely to end up in this same forum down the road with a bigger problem.

The warning is "soft" failure, which is obviously something the designers have put in place as a notice of something to fix. (My guess)

Anyways, I do hope you find the answers to your original question and I would think again before going into a project with a known issue, when now is the best time to fix it.

R. K

I realize that, but it's working and I've been building Perch templates with dashes since Perch was born. I've got many sites with all dash-seperated-words from following the way the documentation does it. So I haven't been inclined to change hundreds of template names and reconnecting them is nothing is actually breaking. Do you see any risks with not going through this time consuming task?

Hey guys - I realize I never got a solution for this. Is there a way to stack the IDs data from numerous fields? It seems like it would be inefficient to make 6 different data selects.

Sorry - stack meaning "a bunch of". I'd like to use data from each repeater list for single dropdown menu with all the tags from those data-selected repeaters. Does that make sense?

Hi Leigh i'm not sure exactly what your trying to achieve –but knowing isotope; have you looked at perch-categories as a for the data-filter-value attribute? So your template would hold... <perch:category id="industry" /> . Your question is looks similar to the issues of relational database design patterns.