Connect a Repeater to a Database Collection in Blocks

Blocks allows you to connect a CMS database collection to a repeater. Note that Blocks collections are placeholders that allow you to interact with similar structured collections on your site later.

To connect a repeater to a collection:

1. Create or open a Blocks widget through the Widgets and Design menu.

2. Add a repeater to your widget: go to the Add  panel and click LAYOUT > REPEATERS.

3. Create a collection in Blocks. 

4. Go to the code section of the widget and import the wix-data module:

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5. Query the data in the collection with this syntax (learn more about your app namespace):

   @<yourAppNamespace>/<yourCollecitonName>

   For example, the following function gets strings from a collection named "Titles" and assign them to the text elements in a repeater:

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