Kirby 3 Blueprint Group Equivalent?

The CMS Questions
1

Is it possible to do something like a Kirby 2 field group in Kirby 3?

I could certainly use the new “section” approach, but in the context of a the page preset template, I can’t seem to get that to work in the “main” column.

I would have expected this to work:

fields:
    social:
        extends: sections/social

with the sections/social file looking like:

type: fields
fields:
    headline:
        label: Headline
        type: text
    description:
        label: Description
        type: textarea
2

Yes, you can still create groups instead of fields sections, see the docs: https://getkirby.com/docs/guide/blueprints/extending-blueprints#reusing-and-extending-field-groups

Edit: To extend your section in a page preset, it would look like this (not within fields):

title: Test
preset: page

sections:
    social:
        extends: sections/social
1 Like
3

Hmm. But that wipes out the sidebar completely, which kind of defeats the purpose of the page preset.

4

Yes, a page preset cannot have a section within the fields area. You either have to use a field group as explained in the linked docs, or you have to let go of the preset.