Github Repo's Dropdown

[gentle shale]

How to acheive the repository dropdown in the template part.when i try to create a application with template,i need a dynamic repo list should be shown in the repository field.Please help me with this as soon as possible

[jovial raptor]

do you mean having a drop-down list of all available repositories in your organization? so you can act on one of them?
what are you trying to achieve?

[gentle shale]

Exactly,you are right.i need to do the same as you mentioned

@jovial raptor

[woeful notch]

You can take reference from this
https://engineering.premise.com/dynamic-data-on-backstage-templates-ad8a0ae316e1

[gentle shale]

Is it works for github organisation repos?are you sure

@woeful notch

[woeful notch]

Yes,. it will works. You have to build something similar (backend plugin) for your org.
I said take reference from this.

[jovial raptor]

yes, as far as i understand there is no out-of-the-box way to solve this, as scaffolder offers string as type. but you can definitely build a custom plugin to fix it

[broken bough]

Hi @gentle shale, I actually worked on this for Bitbucket (https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/25460) and it looks like there is an ongoing effort to do the same for GitHub: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/27884

But like the others have mentioned, this will require some development work. You can create your own plugin or extend the existing one.

[gentle shale]

Thank you everyone,Actually I am not from developer background, so please give me some more details if possible to sort this out...

[broken bough]

In that case, I don't think you can do much more than simply requesting the feature on Backstage's GitHub...