Link field: search

First I wanna say that the new link field is awesome and I just want to point out some improvements ideas.

Ability to search on a page/file type
if you have more then a few pages it’s getting harder to find the needed page you wanna insert so an ability to also type the page name/slug and showing as an result would deffinatly help (in v3 I was using https://github.com/gearsdigital/enhanced-toolbar-link-dialog and found it’s search function very useful)

Ability to add anchor to a page type
right now if you want to add a page with an anchor you have to either use the custom/url type
having an optional anchor field that shows when you choose page type would help

Other than that I’m sure this new feature will only get better overtime :)

FYI the anchor link type already exists (Kirby 4.0.2):

Yup, that’s to anchor within the page. But you can’t point to another page and set an anchor using page type.

I’ld like to add a few useful things that were in the older K3 plugin that were not ported to the new K4 core link field:

1. “Link text” support
2. “target=_blank” support

@Bart Vandeputte There is an easy and more flexible way of adding such data to a link: Via the object field, see https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/panel/fields/link#adding-target-link-text-etc

It would also be nice if you could use the query language to limit e.g. files only to documents or filter pages by templates. Just like the files or pages field.

File link: How about showing initially the files of the current page?

This would be an improvement as well.

Totally agree on the search functionnality, that would be very helpful as we have more than 2k articles and editors are struggling to find them. Another quick win would be to order by most recent first, to avoid having to scroll to the very bottom of the list, since they usually link recent articles.

@Bogdan Condorachi, I renamed this idea to focus on the search functionality.

For the “link to anchor on another page” there exists also this: https://feedback.getkirby.com/610

co-sign. When your website gets big it becomes a drag to click around.