How to display all collections?

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Question:
Hello,
I would like to ask, if I have many collections on the CMS, for example: Toys, Cars, Beauty, how can I create an “All Items” page to display ALL the collections?

Product:
Wix Studio Editor

What are you trying to achieve:
I am trying to create an Items page where I can display all the collections I have on my CMS in one page

What have you already tried:
I have tried to create a collection and tried to merge other collections, but did not find any option to do so.

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  1. You can use several datasets to connect each of your databases on one page. But pay attention → you can connect a dataset always just to one DATABASE.

  2. If you want to concatinating (merging) DATA out of several DATABASES → you will need to CODE it.

  3. The same for, if you want to switch between different DATABASES → you will need to code it.

DATASETS are NOT capable to do that, because they can be connected to ONE DATABASE at once.

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Thanks for your reply!
How could I use several datasets to connect each of the collections in one page?

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  1. Generate SEVERAL → DATASETS on your wished page first.
  2. Connect each of the generated DATASET to each of your wished DATABASES.

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  1. Add the same amount of REPEATERS or TABLES to your page and connect each of REPEATERS or TABLES with the corresponding DATABASES.

This will give you an OVERVIEW-PAGE over all included DATABASES on your page

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I am trying to build a list page for all the collections
do you mean here? I can only choose a single collection

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I think I got what you mean, trying…

UPDATE: It did work! Thanks a lot :slight_smile:

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You are working on a —> DYNAMIC-PAGE !!!

This is different.

DYNAMIC-DATASETS can be connected to 1x - DATABASE at same time.

A list-page generated by a dynamic-datasaet won’t resolve your issue.
You will have to code it.

To generate a LIST-PAGE for all collections using DATASETs you would have to do it using ordinary datasets + repeaters.

Repeater will show database-items in a list-view (table).
Using several datasets connected to each of repeaters → you will get the overview over all database-items.

But this will be a Overview-page, which will show several separated REPEATERS.

If you want to give the USER a LIST with a complete list-overview (including all items from all your selected databases, in just one REPEATER), you will have to use CODE and CONCATENATE data from all chosen DATABASES and pushing the result-data to your repeater by code (data-pre-manipulation)