Is there a way to pre-populate the Page title? I had a look at the page.create:before hook, but this event seems to occur after you click the “Create draft” button in the new page modal. More specifically, when the user clicks the “Add” page button, I’m hoping to pre-populate the title field (and p…

Hm, unfortunately that solution seems to behave about the same as page.create:before, so too late (as in, after the modal has been opened). I’ll keep looking…

To understand you correctly: You would like to set a default value for the title field of the create page modal? So that when you open the modal, the field is already pre-filled?

Yes, that is a more concise way of putting it! In my particular case, I was hoping to set the default value to the date+time. Besides trying to find an appropriate hook, I have tried something along these lines in the blueprint: fields: title: label: Title type: date default: now Th…

This isn’t possible currently - at least not easily. You could make this suggestion in the ideas repository: https://github.com/getkirby/ideas/issues You could indeed replace the dialog component ( https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/master/panel/src/components/Dialogs/PageCreateDialog.vue ). But …

I thought that might be the case, that’s understandable! One last thought… Would there be a way to change the behaviour of the “add” button itself? So when the user clicks the “Add” button we immediately create a page with “YYYY MM DD HH:MM” title and corresponding slug and redirect the user to tha…

That could work, still advanced and Vue knowledge needed. You would need to extend the PagesSection component ( https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/master/panel/src/components/Sections/PagesSection.vue ) and replace the core one with your custom one. Please note that this would apply to all pages …

Awesome, that’s exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you very much for your help! If I’m able to get this worked out, I’ll try to update here for anyone else that is interested in something similar.

Possible to pre-populate Page titles?

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