Wix Harmony Editor: What's New with Repeaters

Important:

We're working on releasing CMS in Wix Harmony, which is not yet available in all Wix accounts.

Use a repeater to show your CMS (Content Management System) collection on your site. Add one to any page, connect it to a collection, and every item appears in the design you build — portfolios, menus, testimonials, and more.

If you've used repeaters in the Wix Editor or Studio Editor, they play a bigger role in Wix Harmony, and you connect them in a different way.

Repeaters are your connection to the CMS

On the pages of your site, you show your collection content with a repeater. Connect the text, images, and buttons inside your repeater to the fields in your collection, and each item appears with its own content.

This replaces the dataset flow from the Wix Editor and Studio Editor. There are no datasets in Wix Harmony — your repeater connects directly to your collection. Learn more about what's new with the CMS in Wix Harmony.

Item pages work a little differently. An item page shows one item at a time, so it doesn't need a repeater — you connect the text, images, and buttons wherever you place them on the page. You still manage every connection from the same Manage Items panel.

Connect a collection before you design

A new repeater arrives with placeholder content until you connect it to a collection. Then, you design the layout with your own content already on the page and manage the connections in the Manage Items panel.

Here's how connecting works:

• Choose your collection: Click Connect Collection on your repeater, then select one of your collections. Don't have one yet? Create a new collection from the content already in your repeater.

• Your elements connect for you: Wix Harmony matches the text, images, and buttons in your repeater to the fields in your collection. You can change any connection afterwards.

• Swap collections anytime: Click Replace next to your collection's name to show a different collection in the same repeater.

The label above an element shows whether it's connected. Blue means the element is static and stays the same for every item, pink means it shows your collection content.

Learn more about adding and setting up repeaters.

Manage your items and fields in one panel

Click Manage Items on your repeater to open the panel that takes the place of the dataset.

You work across two tabs there:

• Items tab: Choose which items appear and in what order. Filter your list, sort it by a text, number, boolean, or URL field, and add or edit your items without leaving your editor.

• Fields tab: Choose what each element shows. Drag a field onto an element to connect it, see which fields are already in use, and add a new field to your collection.

Learn more about filtering and sorting items in repeaters.

Note:

You set how many items load at a time in your repeater's Settings, not in the Manage Items panel.

Tip:

Different views of the same collection: To show groups like "Featured" or "Latest", add a repeater for each group and give each its own filter.

Give every item its own page

To let visitors view an item in detail, set a button or image inside your repeater to Open item page. Wix Harmony creates an item page for every item in your collection, all sharing one layout.

Learn more about item pages in Wix Harmony.

You control who can change your content

Your repeater shows your collection content to visitors, and you stay in control of the content itself. You and your collaborators manage items from the Manage Items panel in your editor or the CMS tab in your site's dashboard. Visitors can't add, update, or delete the collection content from your live site.

Go to your collection settings to manage who can view the content on your live site.

Learn more about choosing who can view your collection's content.

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