Usage
This fieldtype is used to view and select from a list of Collections.
fields: my_collections_field: type: collections
Data Structure
The Collections fieldtype is a Relationship fieldtype, and will save the collections as their handles (the folder name).
listings: - blog - things
Templating
You're more than likely using this field as a way to dynamically display a collection.
Since the collection tag accepts a pipe-delimited list of collection names, you can join them together like this:
<ul> {{ collection from="{listings|piped}" }} <li>{{ title }}</li> {{ /collection }}</ul>
You can pass the values from the collections fieldtype to the collection tag like so:
<ul> <statamic:collection :from="$listings ?? []" > <li>{{ $title }}</li> </statamic:collection></ul>
<ul> <li>A blog entry</li> <li>A thing entry</li> <li>etc</li></ul>
Options
max_items
The maximum number of items that may be selected. Setting this to 1
will change the UI to a dropdown.