How to do a Global Field?

[shogun]

How do you create a single field that is global across all pages and templates so that when its content is updated, it's updated every it exists on the website?

[Gideon So]

Hi @shogun,

Welcome to the forum.

There is no global field as far as I know.

Gideon

 

[Kiwi Chris]

Although you can't create a global field, you can access fields from any page on any template, so you could create a settings 'page' that isn't visible on the site, but holds any fields that you want to use globally, and then access them in every template eg:

$global = $pages->get('name=settings');

echo $global->myfield;

Remember that in Processwire, everything is a 'page', but it doesn't have to be an actual visible page on your site.

[dragan]

You could try https://modules.processwire.com/modules/settings-factory/

Probably overkill if you only really need one single field, but really useful if the number of such global fields increase over time...

[shogun]

Excellent!

[shogun]

Can we use the same system to create a field that is on a template, that gets updated on all pages that use the template with the field? or is this the only way to do that...