Hi,

I'm making a simple widget to allow me to link to a page, with a simple description. This will only be on some pages.

To keep this in one area of the CMS so I can alter the text globally I have put the fields into CustomSiteConfig.

However, I can't get widgets to access the data using $SiteConfig.XX

If I put the same code directly into page.ss it works fine.

<?php

class CustomSiteConfig extends DataObjectDecorator {

   function extraStatics() { 
      return array(
         
      'db' => array(
      'WidgetDescription => 'Text' 
      )  
      ,
      'has_one'  => array(
      'WidgetLink' => 'SiteTree' 
      )
      ); 
   }
   
   public function updateCMSFields(FieldSet &$fields) {   
      
      $fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Main", new TextField('WidgetDescription', 'Widget Description'));
      $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main', new TreeDropdownField("WidgetLinkID", "Widget Link", "SiteTree"));
      }
            
}

Thank you for reading.

No I don't believe widgets can. They're encapsulated from the site from the looks of it.

If you want to access the SiteConfig you can add a function on your widget class that pulled it down

function SiteConfig() {
return SiteConfig::current_site_config();
}

Thanks Willr, I had got around this by using DataObject::get_one("SiteConfig"). I like to do things the "right" way if possible, so are there advantages to using the code you've posted?

Checkout the code and you'll get a sense of what extra things it does (why you you should use it!)

https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/blob/2.4/core/model/SiteConfig.php#L153