Build object relation with "relation widget" inside "list widget"

Hi! I’m having trouble getting this relation working:

I have an IndexPage that will consume blog posts. When I’m editing IndexPage I have a list of blog posts so I can define the showing order.

I’m using this example: Stack overflow

config.yml

collections:
    - name: "pages"
      label: "Pages"
      files:
          - file: "src/pages/index.md"
            name: "index"
            label: "Landing Page"
            fields:
                - {
                      name: "templateKey",
                      label: "Template Key",
                      widget: "hidden",
                      default: "IndexPage",
                  }
                - {
                      name: blogPosts,
                      label: Blog posts,
                      widget: list,
                      fields:
                          [
                              {
                                  name: post,
                                  label: Blog post,
                                  widget: relation,
                                  collection: blog,
                                  value_field: title,
                                  display_fields: [title],
                                  search_fields: [title],
                              },
                          ],
                  }
    - name: "blog"
      label: "Blog"
      folder: "src/pages/blog"
      preview_path: blog/{{slug}}
      create: true
      slug: "{{slug}}-{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}"
      fields:
          - {
                label: "Template Key",
                name: "templateKey",
                widget: "hidden",
                default: "blogPage",
            }
          - { label: Title, name: title, widget: string }
          - { label: Date, name: date, widget: date }

node-config

exports.sourceNodes = ({ actions, getNode, getNodes }) => {
  const { createNodeField } = actions;
  const blogPosts = {};
  const markdownNodes = getNodes()
    .filter(node => node.internal.type === "MarkdownRemark")
    .forEach(node => {
      if (node.frontmatter.blogPosts) {
        getNodes()
          .forEach(node2 => {
            if (node2.internal.type === "MarkdownRemark" && node2.frontmatter.templateKey === 'blogPage') {
              let blogPostNode;
              
              node.frontmatter.blogPosts.forEach(
                post => {
                  if (post.post === node2.frontmatter.title) {
                    blogPostNode = node2;
                  }
                }
              );

              if (blogPostNode) {
                if (!(blogPostNode.id in blogPosts)) {
                  blogPosts[blogPostNode.id] = []
                }

                blogPosts[blogPostNode.id].push(node.id);
              }
            }
          });
      }
    });
    
    Object.entries(blogPosts).forEach(([pageNodeId, postIds]) => {
      console.log(pageNodeId, postIds);
      createNodeField({
          node: getNode(pageNodeId),
          name: "blogPosts",
          value: postIds,
      });
  });
}

gatsby-config

mapping: {
        "MarkdownRemark.fields.blogPosts": "MarkdownRemark"
}

query

query MyQuery {
  markdownRemark(frontmatter: {templateKey: {eq: "IndexPage"}}) {
    fields {
      blogPosts {
        id
      }
    }
    frontmatter {
      title
      banner {
      	paragraph
      }
      hero {
        subHeading
      }
    }
  }
}

query result

{
  "data": {
    "markdownRemark": {
      "fields": {
        "blogPosts": null
      },
      "frontmatter": {
        "title": "",
        "banner": {
          "paragraph": "Founded in 2009, we are a technical company at heart: Software Engineers, Designers and Architects with a passion for helping our clients navigate change and better integrate technology into their processes."
        },
        "hero": {
          "subHeading": "We help SMBs and Fortune 500 companies leverage technology to enhance processes, improve efficiency and connect better."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "extensions": {}
}

Hi @voidhmaster and welcome to the community :wave: Hidden fields are not supported yet for file collections Feat: support hidden widget in files collections · Issue #3046 · netlify/netlify-cms · GitHub so that might be the issue.

Can you verify the index.md file has that field persisted?