Include showSiteMenu option in elementSelect field

[monachilada]

I'm not sure if there's a reason why this isn't included, but it would be nice if showing the showSiteMenu could be configured in cases where the Craft.BaseElementSelectInput is being included in for example a custom field type.

[brandonkelly]

It’s not included because Craft doesn’t have the ability to create relationships or reference tags for an element on a specific site. Being able to choose the site when selecting an element would give you the impression it was going to record the site you selected as part of the relation.

Do you have a use case where the selected site will actually be recorded?

[monachilada]

It came up in conjunction with this plugin, which is including the template and hence why it would be nice to override this setting.

The use case is that I have a jobs section that is enabled for only the primary site (German), since job posts won't be translated into the secondary language (English). However, I have a news section that uses the craft-linkfield field type to link to entries, and I'd like to be able to link to the German job post from an English news article, but since it's disabled for English and there is therefore no equivalent, then obviously nothing will show up in the entries modal from the jobs section. If I could switch the site in the modal, then I could still choose the German version to link to, if I wished.

[brandonkelly]

Thanks for the explanation! Just merged for tomorrow’s release.