Removing and organizing fields in the content

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
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When you delete a field in a blueprint it remains in the content even if you save the page again.

Is there a way to remove the fields that no longer exist from the content, other than manually?

And also a way to organize the fields in the content with the same order than in the blueprint when there has been changes?

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Guess you could write a script that reads the data and then writes it to file again ($page->update()), setting fields that no longer exists to null if you really need such a cleanup. The order of the fields in the content file doesn’t matter though, why do you need to change it?

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It’s amazing how fast you get answers in this forum.

Could you give me some more details about that script?

Regarding the second question, It’s just I’m an order maniac :wink:

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I don’t have a script to share, but basically you would

  • loop through the pages you want to clean up
  • read the data from all fields into an array in the right sort order, the field you want to delete must be a key with value null; this can be done with a loop through all fields ($page->content()->fields())
  • update the the page with the resulting data array
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Ok, I will try it.

Thanks Sonja

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Better do your tests on a copy of your project in case anything goes wrong :wink:. And if you get stuck, come back here…