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One link fieldType to rule them all (better link support in CMS blocks)

As default in the Accelerator, CMS blocks can only link to pages, which is not enough for our customers and thus drives time in almost all projects.

Litium is using the "Pointer" for CMS Urls, and that is typically a bad option, there should exist a FieldType for URLs where the editor easily can link to either pages, external links, categories, sub-categories or products.

And of course, making sure the internal links are relative so that they are working after go-live.

  • Ludvig Bergander
  • Apr 9 2021
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  • Jonas Kastebo commented
    February 07, 2023 21:20

    wonderful!

  • Ludvig Bergander commented
    February 01, 2023 06:57

    Awesome!

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    Ludvig Block commented
    January 31, 2023 16:58

    This idea was released today with Litium 8.8.
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    Ludvig Block commented
    December 16, 2022 09:00

    Hi!

    we are are currently implementing a Link field type to manage links to internal pages, categories, base products, variants, media or simply entering a URL as a text.

    Planned for January release Litium 8.8.

  • Artur O commented
    November 24, 2021 13:35

    This, currently you need to create multiple links that just spams the CMS backoffice and creates confusion.

    Like Nils said, usually product page, category, or some external page this creates 3 fields for every item you want to have link support.

    Then having that with other fields in a multifield object for example (say slider) just clutters everything and then what happens if both are filled in, then you have description icons that tell you what has priority but from user perspective its just a mess.

  • Nils Nyman commented
    September 14, 2021 13:48

    From my experience, only having page links as the default implementation is too restrictive. Sometimes I want to link to a specific product or category. The old CMS had almost all - if not actually all - of these by default.

  • Ton Nguyen commented
    August 31, 2021 07:03

    I am curious, what else do you and your customers want Block to link to, other than pages? And when you say link, do you mean block can be dropped only into pages?