Improve Article Field

[coolcat-creations]

The Article Field is a selection from Articles. It would be good to have the possibility to select a Parent Category for this selection, and to define how the output should be. For now it´s just the title as a plain text. I think it´s more useful as article link?

[laoneo]

The article form field doesn't support categories. There is a category form field, but it also prints only the name of it.
If you want to change the layout of the article field, then feel free to make a PR with a change of this file https://github.com/joomla-projects/custom-fields/blob/custom-fields/components/com_fields/layouts/field/prepare/modal_article.php.

[coolcat-creations]

I can´t as i´m not a dev :-)

[laoneo]

Do you want to know how? Joomla would benefit if more people can do layout pull requests 🤘 . It's very easy.

[coolcat-creations]

of course i want! :)

[laoneo]

1. Clone the project
2. Edit the file as described here https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-your-repository, in our case https://github.com/joomla-projects/custom-fields/blob/custom-fields/components/com_content/layouts/field/prepare/modal_article.php.
3. When you save, it offers you to create a PR.
4. Create the PR.

Don't worry, if something goes wrong, it is always possible to fix it. Let me know if it works.

[laoneo]

Did it work?

[coolcat-creations]

Still on my to do list :-D But i will try it !!!

[coolcat-creations]

Ok i had a look but thousand ???? over my head. :-D
How can i retrieve the link of the article? ok maybe by just echo "/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&Itemid=xy" but i really do just basic if else stuff thats all i´m able to (at least for now)

[laoneo]

Use something like ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($article->id, $article->catid);. This should generate a link. Glad you are trying it!!

[laoneo]

I'm marking this one as a feature for later. Some more interesting options can be added on the article field, like showing the description, images, etc.