Set default slug for child pages

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Hi all! In my project users have the option to create a single grand child page using Kirby’s standard pages section, like so:

    type: pages
    templates: glossary
    empty: No glossary yet
    info: "{{ page.parent.title }}"
    status: listed
    max: 1

So far so good. My question is how to set the slug of the newly created page to a default value (glossary) and ideally prevent it from being edited via the panel. The structure I’m after is this:

/apes/bonobo/glossary
/apes/gorilla/glossary

With normal fields this is no problem (default: 'glossary' and disabled: true ) but I’m not sure how to access the title and slug fields in the page creation dialog or if that is even possible.

2

You can override the $page->create() method in a model, see this solution: Hook page.create:before, how to edit user input?

You can then set the changeSlug option to false in your blueprint to prevent editing of the slug.

3

Thank you for the quick reply and helpful pointers. I have not worked with page models before so I may be barking up the wrong tree here. This is what I have so far (in models/glossary.php) and it doesn’t seem to do anything.

<?php

class glossaryPage extends Page {

    public static function create(array $props): Page {
        $props['title'] = 'Glossary';
        $props['slug'] = 'glossary';
        return $this->create($props);
    }

}
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4

You have to to this in the parent page model

5

D’oh, thanks! That was pretty obvious.

After swapping
return $this->create($props);
for
return Page::create($props);
setting the slug like this works just fine but the title property seems to have no effect.

I ran into another problem with page creation. Setting a max: 1 limit works on a page section level but since I have a drafts section and a published section it means that once a page has been moved to ‘published’ the ‘Add Page’ button reappears and I can add another page. is there a simple workaround to prevent this?

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6

Do you really need two sections if you only want to add one page max?

7

Not at all. Is there a way to use a single section for both drafts and published pages?

8

Yes, you can set status: all(and limit status to drafts and listed), all is the default anyway, so you don’t have to set this explicitly

Allowed statuses: Page blueprint | Kirby CMS

9

Fantastic! Thanks a lot for your relentless help!

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