Generate a data file from folder type CMS actions

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#1

Say you have a collection like this in your config.yaml;

collections:
    - name: blog
      label: Blog
      folder: cms/blog/:slug
      extension: yaml
      create: true
      delete: true
      fields:
        - { label: Title, name: title, widget: string }
        - { label: Summary, name: summary, widget: string }
        - { label: Body, name: body, widget: text }
        - { label: Image, name: thumbnail, widget:  image }

Is there a way to have some of this data sent to another file; based on if a new blog was just created, deleted or modified?

For example the collection above could be used to create a new blog post. I’d like to have a blog preview section on my home page. The preview items would just display the blogs thumbnail, title, and summary.

If I had a single data file for this, I could load it up, iterate through it and generate the html content to be embedded into the home page.

The data file might look like this;

data:
  - title: A Blog Title
    summary: A blog summary
    thumbnail: path/to/blog/image.jpg
  - title: Another Blog Title
    summary: One more summary
    thumbnail: path/to/another-blog/image.jpb
#2

You must be able to do this! Having to have users repeat themselves to produce two seperate files is crazy. And this seems like a pretty standard requirement.

#3

Can you do a diff check during the Netlify build to see what files have been added, modified, or deleted?

#4

I’m struggling to find any good solution for this. Looks like my client will have to create a new blog file, and then remember to add the relevant details to a list widget on the home page too.

What we need is a way to set data relationships/associations between pages. But that might be hard for Netlify to implement.

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#6

We need widget like Relation, only it does not require the user to manually construct the list/items. And it should be able to pull in multiple fields.

This way you can have folder type collection relation setup. so anytime a new blog post for example was added, some data from the blog post file would automatically make it onto the home page etc…