html/markdown content in collection description?

[Ambrosiani]

Context and motivation

I've hardcoded a "contribute" button into the collection header but would prefer to control this from the collection settings.

Alternative solutions

Maybe let the description field have markdown support, or load it from a gutenberg block, or add another field "call to action button"

Additional context

Screenshot of existing description + hardcoded addition. Url: https://monument.kvinnohistoriska.se/kvinnans-sak/

[mateuswetah]

Hi @Ambrosiani!

Hey, that theme looks really cool! And yes, I also find this an important issue. We've been too limited by themes implementation of the Collection description.

You should know that you can also put some HTML content on your Collection description, but this is actually a security issue and we're working to prevent it very, very soon! The same goes for Term pages. In fact we've been discussing the Markdown vs Block solution last week... it might take us a while to implement due to a large list of features that we have planned so far, but just to let clear, you can have a temporary solution:

1. Create a page using Gutenberg blocks as you wish and use the "Faceted Items Lists" block to render your Collection;
2. Set that page as "Cover page" of your Collection, in the Collection settings.

Obviously that is far from ideal as you would have to do for every collection that you have. Also, setting a cover page is not possible in Terms items list, but we recently opened an issue for that too (#448).

I'll keep this open so we can discuss a solution and prioritize it.

[Ambrosiani]

@mateuswetah hi, thanks for the suggestions! Using a separate cover page seems like the easiest way for now – we're only dealing with one public collection at the moment.

[mateuswetah]

Marking this as related to #582!

[mateuswetah]

Closing as duplicate of #582. Once we define the wysiwyg component we should be able to implement this in the collection description.