CMS: Working with Wix App Collections
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In this article
- Showing or hiding Wix app collections in your CMS
- How do Wix app collections work?
- Wix app collection fields
- Wix app collection permissions
Wix app collections in the Content Management System (CMS) are databases that are added to your site when you integrate specific Wix apps. For instance, when you add Wix Stores, it creates collections that store info about your products, inventory items, orders, and more. Similarly, Wix Bookings generates collections for scheduling, services, and staff. These collections are read-only, meaning any modifications must be made from within the apps themselves.
Wix form collections are another type of Wix app collection. They store submissions from forms on your live site that were created with Wix Forms.
Showing or hiding Wix app collections in your CMS
By default, Wix app collections are hidden from your list of CMS collections. To show Wix app collections, enable them from your CMS advanced settings.
Tip:
Enabling Wix app collections also lets you view any Wix form collections you have in your editor.
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
Dashboard
- Go to your editor.
- Click CMS
on the left of the editor. - Click Your Collections.
- Click Manage.
- Click More Actions at the top.
- Select Advanced Settings.
- Enable the Wix App Collections toggle.
- Click the X at the top right to close the CMS window.
- Click Wix App Collections on the left to view all your collections created by other Wix apps.
How do Wix app collections work?
Wix app collections store information about the items in your Wix app. For instance, if you have Wix Stores on your site, the 'Products' collection includes details about the products you sell. The fields (columns) in the collection provide information for each item (row), such as the item's name, price, image, and product options.
To edit the content in your Wix app collections, go to the relevant Wix app, such as Wix Stores or Wix Events, and make your changes there. Any adjustments you make within the Wix apps are automatically reflected in the Wix app collections.
Velo by Wix Users: You can also write code that references these collections to add customized features to your apps. Learn how here. See the app examples in the Velo by Wix Examples site.
Need to delete a Wix app collection?
- If you want to remove a Wix app collection, you must delete the relevant Wix app from your site. For example, you must remove Wix Stores from your site if you want to delete the 'Stores' app collections.
- You can delete Wix form collections that were created by the old version of Wix Forms. It is not possible to delete Wix form collections created by the new version of Wix Forms.
Wix app collection fields
Your Wix app collection fields get their data from the relevant apps (e.g. Stores, Bookings, Events). In these collections, you can view the field names, types, IDs and content. Each app has its own unique capabilities. For example, some apps like Pricing Plans do not allow you to use their fields in user input elements that are set to filter content.
What does each Wix app collection field represent?
Go to our Wix Developers documentation to view more info about specific Wix app collections. You can click the relevant app in the side bar to view details about each of its fields.
Wix app collection permissions
Wix app collections have limited permissions that cannot be changed. Each collection permission (read, create, update, delete) is assigned a role. Collection permissions affect what your visitors can do with the collection content from your live site.
Examples
