Select and browse functionality for component GUI extension

Question

We have developed a GUI extension which invokes custom MVC based application hosted on CM servers.

As part of that custom application, we want to enable select and browse functionality for the components based on particular schema.

How can we achieve this?

Answer 1

I suppose you want to open a item selector popup, with a browser filtered by schema. In order to do this you need to use a filter.

In your extension js code:

 // Open item selector popup
        var filter = {
            conditions:
            {
                ItemTypes: [$const.ItemType.COMPONENT],
                BasedOnSchema: [yourSchema],
                Publication: rootId,
                InPublication: rootId,
                ShowNewItems: false
            }
        };


        p.ItemPopup = $popup.create($cme.Popups.ITEM_SELECT.URL.format(rootId), $cme.Popups.ITEM_SELECT.FEATURES, { filter: filter });