How to display all collections?

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.

  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.

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

  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

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

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)