Add fields to pages preset

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1

Hi there! Is there a way to view the presets in yml form somewhere? This would be helpful to modify them.

What I’m trying to do is add normal fields to the bottom of (or anywhere on) a “pages” preset, but I have no idea how to do this without the fields section overwriting everything. do I put it inside a section? I still don’t quite get it I think…

title: Site
preset: pages

fields:
  text:
    type: text

edit: I realize this is fairly easily solvable by simply using the page preset, but I feel like there is still an issue of extending presets being a bit touchy.

2

Have you tried to add the fields as a fields section?

3

I’ve tried various permutations. Nothing really seems to work to edit the “pages” preset. Should this work?

title: Site
preset: pages

sections:
  content:
    type: fields
    fields:
      headline:
        label: Headline
        type: text
      intro:
        label: Intro
        type: textarea
      text:
        label: Text
        type: textarea
4

What would be really nice, is if in the reference, there was YML for each preset so we can see how they work. I realize these are probably stored differently, but maybe this is a good idea.

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5

The presets do not exist as yaml, so that wouldn’t really be helpful.

Looks like you can’t extend the pages preset like you want and have to use a standard blueprint setup instead.

I don’t know your use case, but you can also use presets within tabs, so you could set up a tab with the pages preset and a second tab with your fields.

title: Test page

tabs:

  tab1:
    label: Pages Preset
    preset: pages
  tab2:
    label: Page preset
    preset: page
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6

Thanks for the reply! That’s a solution for sure.

7

I seem to struggle with the same problem, any way to extend the files preset to add an additional title field?

I tried this but no effect:

/site/blueprints/pages/album.yml

title: Album
preset: files
fields:
  name:
    label: Title
    type: text

But it overwrites the files field this way. I don’t really understand what that preset is for then if I’m not really able to extend it with additional fields.

8

The presets are just a simple way to create standard blueprints.

For anything non-standard, don’t use them and build your blueprints from scratch. So instead of the files preset, use a files section and for additional fields, add a fields section on top.

title: Album

sections:
  files:
    type: files
    headline: My files section
    # other file sectionn props
  fields:
    type: fields
    fields:
      name:
        label: Title
        type: text
      # other fields
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