I've done this Robyn . The field is available on the homepage admin screen.

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Rohan  this does not match up with what is needed - I'd like to be able to select a specific post vs a resource type for the home page  please take a look at the design to see what I mean, your approach here is too broad and fits one part of the picture - it is useful to be able to select which types of resources but we need more please

Then I am a bit confused 😕 The previous functionality allowed you to choose a specific post, and from what I am understanding that it is what you want still? Can you perhaps make me another video please?

Robyn Rohan - I might confuse matters more now: in this section, the content editor should be able to add posts from a variety of post types, including News and Events, Resources, and People. You will note in the design one of the examples is a scientist spotlight:

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We could simplify this to just News and Events and Resources – it might make more sense to feature scientists / people in a news post, and will make it easier to code this section. 

Ian all we need is news posts, events and resources (all types). The scientist spotlight is a news post or a resource post of sorts. The people part is not something we need to pull in, the design is a bit confusing because its about a person but its really just a news / event post or a resource post about a specific scientist. 

This was not working before so I asked Rohan to fix it because it was NOT possible to select a post Rohan  . I don't know where the wires got crossed but what we need is: 

The ability to select any resource post, event or news post into the "FROM OUR DESK" feed on the home page. 

https://vimeo.com/991534412/07705eb1e0?share=copy

Right, I think what made me deurmekaar :-) is the word "feed". This to me says that we do a query get the 3 latest posts and display them.

What I understand now is that you want the option to choose 3 items from news/events/resources to appear on the homepage.

So it's 3 dropdowns, and each dropdown contains a list of all the posts under news/events/resources.

Is that correct? Ian Robyn  

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