Extend single column

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1

I found this post about extending columns.
I don’t want to extend multiple columns or a whole layout, just one single column:

# site/blueprints/pages/default.yml
title: Default
columns:
  main:
    width: 2/3
    fields:
      text: fields/text
  sidebar:
    extends: columns/sidebar

# site/blueprints/columns/sidebar.yml
width: 1/3
sections:
  pages: sections/pages
  files: sections/files

It doesn’t work, though. Am I doing something wrong?

2

Have you tried adding the column name?

# site/blueprints/columns/sidebar.yml
sidebar:
  width: 1/3
  sections:
    pages: sections/pages
    files: sections/files

Can’t remember what I tried when I wrote that post…

3

That doesn’t work. It would be pretty weird compared to extending sections/fields/tabs too, wouldn’t it?

If it worked for you when you wrote that post maybe there was a regression?
Extending columns is not mentioned in the Reusing & extending blueprints article either.

4

True. Hm, if you don’t find a solution, I’ll try to look into it later.

5

Hm, the only way I can get it to work is like this:

sidebar.yml

columns:
  sidebar:
    width: 1/3
    sections:
      pages: sections/notes

default.yml

title: Test
extends: sections/sidebar
columns:
  main:
    width: 2/3
    fields:
      text: true

But that turns the order you wanted upside down.

6

Or like this:

Default.yml

title: Test
extends: sections/sidebar
columns:
  main:
    width: 2/3
    sections:
      fields:
        fields:
          text: true
  sidebar:
    sections:
      notes: false

sidebar.yml

columns:
  main:
  sidebar:
    width: 1/3
    sections:
      notes: sections/notes
      pages:
        type: pages
        create: default
        template:
          - about
          - home
          - default

With main defined but empty.

7

Thanks a lot for checking :pray:

Both hacks have some downsides, so I’ll stick with inline columns.

Considering you can extend every other element, I’ll add an issue in the ideas repository.

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