Sorting & Repeater

[cupcakearmy]

Hi everyone,

I have a question on how to model certain situations in Directus.
Basically I have 2 scenarios which I don't know how to handle:

1. Sort multiple images.
   Imagine a collection products that has a field photos. There is the files field type, but one can only select multiple photos, but not decide on the order of them.

2. Two Collections. One for recipes and one for ingredients.
   The problem: Assign multiple ingredients to one recipe, with the corresponding amount.
   e.g.
   Recipe:
   Title: Pizza
   Ingredients: [ {someIngredientId, 200g}, {someOtherIgredientId, 5g}, ... ]

One way is probably to create a third collection with simply one ingredient and a text field and assign multiple of that to the recipe collection. But this seems a bit... wrong.
I know there is the relational repeater coming in v9 but i don't know what the timeline on that is :)

Any suggestions/best pratices?

Thanks!!!

[cupcakearmy]

Btw, since the repeater also supports sorting, the relational repeater would solve basically both problems

[benhaynes]

No definite update on the relational repeater, but it should be released in v9 (coming soon) which can be tracked on the app-next and api-next repos. I agree that this is the right way to solve this... though you could create a custom interface in the meantime if needed.

[cupcakearmy]

Thanks for the quick reply! What about the sortable images? is there a way to do that without the relational repeater?

[benhaynes]

I believe you can use the files interface and make sure that the junction table has a sort field. That should work.

[cupcakearmy]

That works yes, thanks :)