Re: Creating page types programatically

[Daniele Procida]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, Patrick Heneghan  wrote:

>It might help for me to explain this in context - for example, I'm going to 
>have a "post type" called "blog", which should have title and content 
>fields, and then "event", which should have additional location, date, and 
>time fields.

Hi Patrick.

I hadn't realised that by Page Type you meant, in effect, a different content 
model.

Page Types in django CMS are a way to take a snapshot of a page for resuse, to 
save you having to re-do a complex layout that you often reuse.

If you want to manage weblog content, or events, use a weblog or events 
application, so that instead of shoe-horning information into unsuitable 
containers, you can have models that are designed to hold it in the most useful 
way.

Other CMSes (like Wagtail and Mezzanine) extend their pages in the way you 
describe, but django CMS has always avoided that as a core principle.

Daniele

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Re: Creating page types programatically

[Iacopo Spalletti]

Il 06/09/2016 13:41, Patrick Heneghan ha scritto:
> Posted already to the Github issue tracker, but it was suggested I post
> here instead:
> 
> 
> In other CMS's I've used, it's been possible to define Page Types (or
> "post types") programatically. This is desirable, as it allows me to
> commit these to code, and have them ready for use when the site has been
> installed - rather than going through the manual process of creating
> them via the admin area post-installation.
> 
> 
> Is this possible in Django CMS? It doesn't seem to be documented.

Do you mean "Page Type" in the django CMS meaning (ie: special pages
prefilled with content) or just page templates? In the latter django
templates configured in CMS_TEMPLATES are what you are looking for.

In the former case django CMS Page types are just pages saved under a
special parent.
If you want to ship them together with the code you have two options:
- saving a fixture file with the pre-saved pages
- create a datamigration which creates the pages using create_page /
create_title / add_plugin public API
(http://django-cms.readthedocs.io/en/release-3.3.x/reference/api.html)

Hope this helps

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