What fieldtype should I use to select one item from a bucket

Question

I have a template in which I want to provide a field where editors can select 1 item from a bucket. I am just not sure which field type I should use. The best match for working with buckets seems to be the "Multilist with Search", but that is more suited for selecting multiple items and I need only (and max) 1.

Does anyone have any experience on this - where your editors were happy with the result?

Answer 1

I've used a multilist with search and just used a regex in the validate field to limit to choices to the field requirements know each case.

Here is an example regex that limits zero to 5 items ^({[^}]+}|?){0,5}$

For zero to 1 item change the 0,5 to 0,1. To force one item set to 1,1.

Src blog post by Ben Ramey

Answer 2

I don't think there is such field. It's probably a good thing to suggest for Sitecore though as it's not my first time I see such request. The way I see it you have two options

1. implement the custom field
2. use a mix of multilist with search with validation to limit the amount of items you can associate with the field(not the best choice but it is a workaround that works)