In the editor when using a single reference field that has potentially hundreds of available options listed in a dropdown menu, scrolling through to find the one that you want is a really bad experience. Being able to type to narrow down the options shown in the dropdown would be wonderful.
Darren Squashic
One workaround I found: Tap the dropdown > ⌘F > Search for the item you're looking for.
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Trying to bump this 4 years old idea up.
It's super easy to find anything in the multi ref field, but its cumbersome in Options and Reference fields.
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Another vote for this, especially now we have eCommerce, linking a related product when you have 300 to choose from or similar with blog entries is now becoming painful. I would use a mutli-reference field but the CMS linking in the designer stops my ability to access related information if I use a multi-reference. Happy to share a link via DM if anyone is interested in seeing this issue.
Exactly! I have hundreds of items to scroll through. In my mind this should function just like a multi-ref in the CMS except that you're limited to adding a single item. No reason for two different UIs.
My theory is that the single-ref evolved from the drop down element. Then when multi-ref came along it required a different UI but single-ref was never updated to match.
This is quite nasty as it is. There is major likelihood of duplicate references being created.
The same issues exists for adding google fonts.