<p>I'd rather look into nesting Super Table fields within your Matrix block types than relating Entries. The Entry element type and its relationship field come with a lot of inappropriate UI for the use case you're trying to solve.</p>

<p>Another approach would be to write a plugin that provides its own element type and relationship field / modal UI.</p>

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<p>For a complex website we have nested a relation field inside a matrix.</p>

<p>It makes little sense for us to show the list of already created entries so we would prefer to directly display the new entry modal when clicking on a relation field. Our goal is to facilitate the editors lives and thus avoid multiple modal nesting... (See below).</p>

<p>Thank you in advance for your advice. Peace.</p>

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Display a new entry modal when clicking on a relation field
# Display a new entry modal when clicking on a relation field

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-18)

For a complex website we have nested a relation field inside a matrix.

It makes little sense for us to show the list of already created entries so we would prefer to directly display the new entry modal when clicking on a relation field. Our goal is to facilitate the editors lives and thus avoid multiple modal nesting... (See below).

Thank you in advance for your advice. Peace.

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**Tags:** plugin-development, matrix, relations


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-19. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

I'd rather look into nesting Super Table fields within your Matrix block types than relating Entries. The Entry element type and its relationship field come with a lot of inappropriate UI for the use case you're trying to solve.

Another approach would be to write a plugin that provides its own element type and relationship field / modal UI.


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