Extending tab with columns

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1

I’m am currently trying to add a field, in its separate columns, inside a tab and af as I can tell, kirby seems to not like this at all.

In my page blueprint I have a tab that’s extended

tabs:
    content :
        extends : tabs/content

And the content of that tab looks something like this

label   : Content
columns :

  - width  : 2/3
    fields :
        text :
            label : Page Content
            type  : textarea
            size  : medium

  - width  : 1/3
    fields :
        tags :
            label : Page Tags
            type  : tags

What I’m trying to do, is to extend this tab and add a new column after the two I already have but I can’t find a way to do it. I’d expect something like this to work

    content     :
        extends : tabs/content
        columns :
          - width    : 3/3
            sections :
                mysection:
                    type : fields
                    fields :
                        test:
                            type : text

But what I get is just the new column, the old ones are gone. Am I missing something obvious here?

2

You have to use named columns to be able to extend them.

label   : Content
columns :

  content: 
    width: 2/3
    fields :
      text :
        label : Page Content
        type  : textarea
        size  : medium

  tags: 
    width: 1/3
    fields :
      tags :
        label : Page Tags
        type  : tags

title: test
tabs:
  content:
    extends: tabs/content
    columns:
      anotherOne:
        width: 3/3
        sections:
          mysection:
            type: fields
            fields:
              test:
                type : text
1 Like
3

Never used named columns before and it never even occured to me to try it.
As always, thanks @texnixe

Perhaps this is something worth mentioning somewhere in here? Reusing & extending blueprints | Kirby CMS

4

It’s mentioned here in the columns documentation: Layout | Kirby CMS, but you are right, maybe it would make sense to repeat it in the extension docs.