title: Sitecore 8.1 - 'Add' button to custom field type and Experience Editor
body: <p>Question that covers both the Experience (Page) Editor and the Content Editor.</p>
  
  <p>I have a Timeline spotlight that users can add to a page - it has a list of decades at the top and underneath each decade there is a list of Years (with their text and images).</p>
  
  <p>I have created a number of controls that link to various data sources but I'm finding the user experience lacking.</p>
  
  <p>If I go to the Experience Editor:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Select Timeline Placeholder and Add Item</li>
  <li>Popup comes up to select/create the data source</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Then the only way to add a decade is by going to the Decade datasource, creating a new item there and then going back to the Timeline data source and adding this item their.</p>
  
  <p>What I'm thinking of is:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Content Editor - Against the Timeline data item their is a multi-list field of 'Decades' - is there any easy way to add a 'Create' button next to it that would replicate the same event as if you went to the <em>Decades</em> data source and clicked <em>insert item</em></li>
  <li>Experience Editor - Remove the use of the Placeholder and add a similar 'Create' button that will replicate the <em>insert item</em> event - once item created and properties set refresh the control to display according.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Anyone came across something similar before? Any better solutions?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Dan</p>