Feature request: Display Entity IDs in selections

[ajplopez]

I'm submitting a

[x] feature request

...about

[x] edit experience / UI
[x] admin experience UI

Current Behavior / Expected Behavior

Sub-entities don't display their Entity ID in the drop down selections so if things get added and there are duplicates, it can be confusing as an editor.

Of course we'd like to avoid this issue but it's not always possible when customers are editing content.

It would be nice if (at the very least) these subentities showed their Entity ID so I (as an admin) can go in and clean things up for the user when we have duplicates. It would be useful for the editors as well because then at least they can recognize numbers and clean things up themselves.

I have real situations where customers have accidentally added duplicate entries when they should have chosen an existing one. Here's a quick mockup I've made of 1 idea that could help make things easier to manage:

Instructions to Reproduce the Problem

Create an app that uses sub-entities - particularly one that allows users to add existing items from a set list, but also gives them control to add new ones.

Add something like "Creative Work" to your subentities list. Then add it again. Once you do, you'll have two Creative Work subentities but can't tell the difference between them in the list.

Your environment

N/A

• 2sxc version(s): 16.7.0
• Browser: all |
• DNN: all
• Hosting platform: all
• Language: any/all

[iJungleboy]

You're in luck.

We're currently working on enhancing the picker to do this and much more :) stay tuned...

[enfJoao]

Sorry for adding info to an old thread, but this is actually an important feature.
There are workarounds, like using formulas to concatenate other fields/ids and setting them as title, but it should be simpler.

[iJungleboy]

@enfJoao I hear you.

We have been secretly working on this a LOT these last 12 months. Internally we have just about everything working, but the features are not yet visible because we had to rework the entire picker system.

The good news: We plan to release it within the next two weeks 🚀.

[iJungleboy]

This is possible using the new picker input types in 17.03 :)

Still in beta, but most things such as this work - needs some docs though...