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Contentful Simple Reference Field
Contentful provides a powerful mechanism to link to other entries, accessible on the UI trough the Reference field widget. Such field works perfectly for most of the cases, however, there are a few situations we may prefer a more minimalist widget, like when referencing to a less dynamic and populated content model. Let’s imagine that we have a content model Channel
that is used to identify contents that are used in a website
, mobile application
, etc..
So, instead of using the Reference
field and having to click and select from the modal the desired channel we can have instead a simple dropdown (select) or radio buttons, but maintaining the same reference
data.
Download and installation instructions on github https://github.com/pauloamgomes/contentful-simple-reference-field
This project is based on Contentful UI extensions that are already deprecated for some time. It may still work but it's better to find a similar alternative that is using the App framework.