Feature request: select list or autocomplete when prompted for parent page

[brylie]

Issue Summary

I have a custom content model inheriting from Page, and have created a custom Admin page:

When clicking the "Add Contact" button, I am prompted to select a parent page:

Since we expect to have dozens or hundreds of contacts, this list grow to be too long for a radio-select.

How can I configure this page to use an autocomplete or page select widget?

Steps to Reproduce

1. create model inheriting from Page, allowing model to be child of self
2. create Admin page for model
3. add several instances of model
4. visit custom admin page and click "Create " button

[loicteixeira]

You might want to have a look at Customising ChooseParentView. Please note though that support questions are better answered on Stack Overflow or Slack, see the Support page in the documentation. If you have further questions, please do not reply to this issue and use those channels linked.

I'll keep that issue open though because I think it could be addressed with better UI. Most of website will end up with a good number of pages which will make the radio buttons unusable.

[brylie]

I'll keep that issue open though because I think it could be addressed with better UI. Most of website will end up with a good number of pages which will make the radio buttons unusable.

Jep, there is a fine line between a support and feature request. Agreed that this would be a good core feature enhancement :-)

[jnns]

We're running into the same problem right now. It's not only that the user experience is bad; we have so many pages that the page load times out.

I will have a look at customizing the ChooseParentView with wagtail-autocomplete.