Manage a collection in a single file

[tforster]

Is it possible to manage a single collection, aka multiple pages or posts, in a single json or yaml file?

[hunvreus]

You could define a single file as JSON, TOML or YAML (even CSV if you use the datagrid type). I do that sometimes to manage things like a list of authors for a blog:

- name: authors
    label: Authors
    type: file
    path: _data/authors.json
    list: true
    fields:
      - name: name
        label: Name
        type: string
      - name: age
        label: Age
        type: number
      - name: featured
        label: Featured
        type: boolean
      - name: email
        label: Email
        type: string
        pattern: ^(|[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+\.\w+)$
      - name: avatar
        label: Avatar
        type: image
        options:
          path: images/avatars

This effectively allows you to save your list of authors (each with name, age, featured, email and avatar fields) as a JSON array.

[hunvreus]

Did that work for you @tforster ?

[tforster]

@hunvreus Sorry, I was pulled into another project. I am going to give it a try but I suspect the number of fields I have in my schema will make the UI uncomfortable.

It's not a huge deal as I am streaming the json files and can merge them into the one data structure that I need.

[tforster]

We can close this issue as the response was suitable.