Dashboard Blueprint — accessing Page contents

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Hello,

I am stuck and unfortunately neither the documentation nor the starter kit could help me out.
I want to essentially build a dashboard where all the entries of my two pages “work” and “exhibitions” are shown. I guess i have to access the contents of those Pages somehow. How do i do that?

This is my blueprints tree so far:

site.yml
- works.yml <-- i want to access all "work" entries. 
--- work.yml
- exhibitions.yml
--- exhibition.yml <-- i want to access all "exhibition" entries.

Thank you so much in advance!

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What have you already tried? Do you want to show those subpages in one pages section or in different ones?

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I have tried the following approaches:

sections:
      name: templates/template.yml

which throws me an “Invalid section type (“name”)” error.

parent: site.find("works")

which throws me an “Invalid section type” error, too.

parent: kirby.page('works')

Only thing that remotely worked and pointed me into the right direction (i guess).
but i apparently could only use it once per blueprint as it would only either show my works or exhibitions but never both. I guess the problem is i dont quite understand the yml syntax yet and what it demands in certain situations. I feel there is not enough documentation about that.

I don’t know all the right words, but essentially i want to skip the part of showing me my pages in a list (as i only have 2 thats pretty pointless) but instead show what you see when you click on it. In both cases thats a list of all existing pages in those respective folders.

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If you check out the Starterkit, site.yml has three pages sections: albums, notes & pages.

The sections for notes and albums are definied in /site/blueprints/sections

You can do it in the same way for your two parent pages work and exhibitions.

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Thanks! That has worked. But I am running into problems when i try to have either 2 sections in my sections/work.yml or try to call it on the site.yml twice. Is it only possible to use a blueprints/section once?

I am simply trying to use the section twice but filter them for published and drafts.

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No, but you have to make sure that your keys are always unique for each section (or field name, tab name etc)
Example: https://github.com/getkirby/starterkit/blob/main/site/blueprints/pages/notes.yml

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