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PageTable - Possibility to choose dynamically the parent for pages

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I'm using the PW PageTable field extensively and I think an improvement to it could be made regarding the ability to choose the page parent where the page created via PageTable will reside.

Say you have a PageTable field set like this:

Edit Field: page_table_field > Details >
Select one or more templates for items
> template_one
> template_two
> template_three
Select a parent for items
> parent_template

Actually, you can only create pages under the parent_template page (or as page child if no parent for items is selected).

BTW I am looking for reasons about this limitation.

What about allowing to choose on the fly where the pages created via PageTable will reside? that is, having the possibility to choose dynamically under which parent page to create the pages?

Actually, one could overcome to this by creating multiple appropriately set PageTable fields, one PageTable field per PageTable parent for items, but this is unsustainable (?) when you want to create a lot using PageTable…

By allowing to choose dynamically / on the fly the parent page during page creation via the PageTable field would open up a wider usage of PageTable.

What do you think about?

 

@ryan @Robin S

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