Make entry types more flexible.

[angrybrad]

Created by: Hamish Taplin (hamish@bluegg.co.uk) on 2015/03/11 12:03:00 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 10

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I often need to share an entry-type between sections which currently requires me to manually duplicate it. A frequent use-case is that I have structures that all share the same "landing page" entry-type but don't share any other entry-types. If I put them all in a single structure, I end up with lots of entry-types making it a bit confusing for the client.

One solution would be that entry-types are created independently of sections and then added to them. Alternatively, being able to duplicate them (or even duplicate a section) would be useful.

[angrybrad]

Posted by Hamish Taplin (hamish@bluegg.co.uk) on 2015/03/11 12:03:00 +0000

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Thanks Brandon. How about simply being able to duplicate an Entry Type and select a section to duplicate into?

[angrybrad]

Posted by Brandon Kelly (brandon@pixelandtonic.com) on 2015/03/06 03:54:45 +0000

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We've considered this, but I'm concerned about the complexity it will add to the UI. It's not just that you've now got this new layer of abstraction between sections and their fields, but in all likelihood people are still going to end up wishing they could tweak entry types on a per-section basis. (Consider that #806 is one of the highest-voted ideas on this site.)

Not against it, but I think that needs to be fully thought through first.

[angrybrad]

Posted by Hamish Taplin (hamish@bluegg.co.uk) on 2015/03/11 12:03:00 +0000

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Thanks Jamie, glad its not just us that feels this. That's exactly how I envisioned it would work.

The generic content page thing we also use everywhere, gets annoying duplicating it six times!

[angrybrad]

Posted by Jamie Wade (hello@jamiewade.co.uk) on 2015/03/09 12:18:41 +0000

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+2 votes for this!!

Perhaps a solution for this would be to create a new option under the 'Content' section in the settings called Types or Entry Types?

You could create your entry types independently from sections, so they can be shared between more than one section.

We have needed the use of this quite a lot when we just have a simple 'Page' entry type, with basic content fields (body content, masthead image, meta description etc). It seems a shame to duplicate the exact same entry types for multiple sections.