Page List Select template restriction issues

[adrianbj]

Short description of the issue

If you set the parent to the grandparent of the pages that should be selectable and you set the template restriction to only allow selection of those grandchildren, the "Select" action button shouldn't show when hovering over the children.

In this example, the children (eg. Ecosystems) of Media Categories have the media_category template and the grandchildren (eg Coastal/Marine) have the Media Album template. But, as you can see, the "Select" action button is shown next to "Ecosystems" which is not selectable because of the template restriction. Of course, when you go to save the page you get an error, eg:

PagesEditor: Error saving field "Media Category" — Page 5120 is not valid for media_category (Page 5120 does not have required template(s): 72)

but it's confusing for users to know what they are and are not allowed to select. And even then, the error is very confusing for non-technical users. I have often noted that I think errors for non-superusers need to be more friendly and I think this is a good example, but more importantly, I don't think they should have the option to select invalid pages in the first place.

[Toutouwai]

Page List Select and Page List Select Multiple don't support restricting selectable pages by template. There's a note about this in the settings:

[Toutouwai]

I'd support this as a feature request though. And in the meantime you could take a look at the code examples in this forum topic because it deals (in a hacky way) with hiding/disabling the select button according to template.

[adrianbj]

Thanks @Toutouwai - I must admit to completely glossing over that warning. So I guess this does need to be a feature request, but I think it's a pretty important one - I am pretty sure I have come across this before and based on the forum thread you pointed to, I am not the only one. Great hacky hooks by the way - as usual :)

I actually decided to go with a "Select" instead and use {parent.title} > {title} for the label format. This works pretty well for this situation, but it would be unwieldy if there were many more grandparent pages to select from.

[szabeszg]

does need to be a feature request, but I think it's a pretty important one

+1