Contentful Reverse Lookup UI

FormatContentful UI Extension

LanguageJavaScript (using the Contentful API)

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What It Is

Contentful sidebar widget that shows entries which link to the entry loaded in the UI

Status

Last Reviewed:

This is quite old. I don’t know if the Contentful UI extension API has changed. I’m told it still worked as of 2018.

Details

This is a UI extension for Contentful that showed all the objects that are linked to the current object.

If you’re looking at Object X, and you have a reference field to Object Y, you can clearly see Object Y in the UI. However, if you’re looking at Object Y, you had no way to know it was linked from Object X (the link was unidirectional, in terms of UI).

This extension shows a little sidebar widget that does a reverse lookup for all of the objects (like Object X) that link to the object you are presently looking at. It provides links to those objects.