Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Creating a custom experience button using the Field Editor

The Experience Editor is an extremely efficient tool to edit content within Sitecore. Sitecore does not support in-line editing for Checkbox, Multilist, TreeList, and other fields, so it gets very difficult for content authors to find exact fields and items to modify them.

Just imagine if we could allow them to edit these fields not appearing anywhere on the page directly but still playing a role there. This is possible using the Field Editor, which we will use with the help of an experience button.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use the Site Root template, and we will make the Carousel Slides Multilist field (used to select multiple slides) editable from the Experience Editor.

How ...