Managing master data

1

How do I organise master data in Kirby that provides a set of data for the actual pages? For example, a list of events.

If I understand it correctly, I would create a page of the type Events in Kirby, which in turn contains a list of events. However, Events itself is not a page and should not be able to be deleted or edited. Only the individual events are managed inside here. Events is a fixed container.

I actually imagine that there is an ‘Events’ item in the menu on the left, under which all events are managed.

What is the right approach?

2

Without using pages, you could create a custom Panel area, similar to this recipe, where data is either stored in a database or some other writable format: Advanced Panel area | Kirby CMS

Other than that, you would indeed create pages, but make them inaccessible from the frontend and just use them as data containers.

3

That is helpful. This means that I can hide pages and make them inaccessible if I don’t want them to be changed. They then only serve as data containers.

In this case, I could, for example, integrate events into the side menu.

 'events' => [
                'icon'  => 'clock',
                'label' => 'Events',
                'link'  => 'pages/events'
            ]

If I understand it correctly, I could also add a separate area on the main panel page to display the latest events directly.

sections:
  pages:
    label: Pages
    type: pages
  events:
    label: Events
    type: pages
    template: events
4

You might find my Recurr plugin useful for this, and its companion Yasumi

Recurr is for repeating events between a date range (like something that happens every monday and tuesday for 6 months. it will return all those dates to you.)

Yasumu gets a list of all the public holiidays for a given a given country and year. You can use this to filter out events that fall on a public holidays like Chirstmas day and therefore wont happen.