custom post data show in editor

am1cable

I've got some custom fields that I have working in my composer, but I'd like to be able to show the data that was submitted when editing posts. I tried passing it in as templateData when composer.build is called, but it only seems to be called when you have the composer as a separate route, which I don't want.

tl;dr I have data in postData that I want to show/be editable by users while editing their posts, how do I get it into composerData? thanks!

am1cable

Is this not a thing that's possible? It feels pretty basic.

<baris>

It is possible using two hooks.

Server side you need "filter:composer.push"

myPlugin.onComposerPush = function (hookData, callback) {
	// called when composer is opened to edit a post
	posts.getPostField(hookData.pid, 'myCustomField', function (err, customField) {
		if (err) {
			return callback(err);
		}
		hookData.myCustomField = customField;
		callback(null, hookData);
	});
};

Client side you need "filter:composer.create"

$(window).on('filter:composer.create', function (ev, data) {
	data.createData.myCustomField = parseInt(data.postData.myCustomField, 10) === 1;
});

After adding those two hooks myCustomField will be available to use in the the composer template.

am1cable

excellent! thank you very much