Webflow CMS & Collection Lists

Nesting Collection Lists

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CMS Basics
Strongly-typed Data-binding
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CMS Field Types
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Sorting Collection Lists
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Random, Dynamic List Sorting
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Filtering Collection Lists
Filtering Collection Lists
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Working with Collection Lists
How Collection List Pagination Works
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Unbinding Collection Lists
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Hide an Entire Section w/ Empty Collection Lists
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Nesting Collection Lists
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Display Filename for Download
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Collection Lists & Custom Code
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How to Bind CMS fields to Custom Attributes
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Collection Pages
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Hi Paul, welcome to the forum.

There are two approaches for nesting lists here;

MULTI-REF FIELD

I personally don't recommend this one at all, but, some like it.

You can add a multi-ref field in your Categories table that links to the Blog Posts in it.

- Advantage - you can use Webflow's nested Collection Lists feature directly

- Disadvantages - you're limited to 5 nested items, you cannot sort or filter them, and multiref fields are difficult to manage in the CMS admin console.

SCRIPT-SOLUTION

Generate your Categories list and your Post list separately, and use script to reorganize them up on screen. I do this a lot for clients, so [message](https://www.sygnal.com/webflow) if you'd like help building it.

- Advantage - easy administration, can do more than 100 nested items on the page, can sort how you like, works with dynamic filtering.

- Disadvantage - requires some code, or a 3rd party toolset.

Have a look at Finsweet's CMS Nest feature as well, you may be able to make that work well for what you're doing.

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