Connecting CMS content toUser Accounts

Is there a way to connect CMS items to a specific user?

For example, if you have a CMS collection of photos, and each photo is connected to a user, is there a way to display all the photos connected to a certain user when they are logged in?

Hi Jesse, no not natively at this time.
There are workarounds but they involve a good deal of development and setup to get them working and even then theyā€™re fragile and full of limitations.

Most importantly, until the feature is natively built in Webflow, you wouldnā€™t be able to do this securely. Logged-in User X would be able to see Logged-in User Yā€™s data if they had a mind to look for it.

Hi @Jesse_Reichenstein :wave: welcome to the forum!

Yes, there is!

But not natively with Webflow. Youā€™ll have to glue it together yourself. Itā€™s not too difficult.

The hard part is that the Webflow CMS and Webflow Memberships (Iā€™m assuming this is what you are talking about when you mention user accounts) are 2 separate ā€œthingsā€ in Webflow with no association to one another.

But, who cares :smile: you can make it work anyways.

ā€¦and when Webflow does allow you to associate them together, you can swap out the manual linking for their native solution :+1:

In the mean time, youā€™ll need to use Make (Integromat) or Zapier as your glue service to snap it all together.

Someone on the forum asked this recently and here is the answer I gave them, along with some details about how to set it up.

Hope that helps!