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Datasource Field
There are currently a few different ways to link entries to eachother.
- Selectbox link
- Selectbox link +
- Subsection manager
The downside of all these solutions is that they are based on some heavy configuration in the section editor to build a list of items to pick from, while Symphony already offers a great solution for this out of the box: datasources!
Wouldn't it be great if you can create a datasource and put some filters and sorting on it, and use that datasource in the backend as a source of items to pick from in your field?
Another addition to this would be to select a renderer for this information (this is sort of the approach SBL+ was taking), since sometimes you want to pick a single item, sometime several (with checkboxes), sometimes an image gallery, etc...
This 'view' could be an XSL template to render, with an XML input for it's items. Sorting could be handled by an upper layer.