Content

• Introduction
• Collection
• The basics
• Create a content model
• Add items to your collection
• Singleton
• Tree
• Further reading

Introduction

With this version of Cockpit content is organized in so-called content models. You can create a content model for a collection of items or just one single item - type and structure specified when creating the content model.

A content model consists of the fields you define, with each field belonging to one of Cockpit's Field types. Depending on the fields configured you can than create items containing the required data.

Collection

The basics

Collections help you to define a content model of type Collection. After you created the content model you can add as many items as you wish. All items of a collection then rely on the structure of the content model.

The following sections describes how collections work by example. Other examples would be faq, products, ...

Create a content model

1. Login to your Cockpit installation
2. Navigate to Content
3. Click Create model
4. As Type select Collection so we can create lots of items later on
5. Fill in the fields
   • Name: employee
   • Display name: Employee
6. Continue by adding a field to the model by clicking plus
7. Fill in the fields
   • Name: name (camel case recommended. E.g. nickName)
   • Type: Text (default)
   • Display name: Name
   • Required: yes
8. Click Add field to add the field
9. Click Create model to save

Add items to your collection

1. Navigate to Content
2. In the list of collection you should see your Employee collection
3. Click on it to start adding items
4. Click Create item
5. Fill in the fields
   • Name: Employee A (or another unique name, you did not use before)
6. Click Create item again to save the item to collection
7. Afterwards make sure to publish the item using the dropdown for State in the right
8. You can now
   • continue to add items by starting at 1. again
   • or stop here and use your content

Singleton

For Singletons we keep the documentation rather short because basically a singleton works the same way the Collection content model does.

The one and only major difference is, that for a singleton content model only one item exists. You would use a singleton whenever creating multiple items of the content model does not make sense at all.

Tree

Content models of the type tree allows you to manage your content in a so called tree structure or in a parent / child model. This is usefull if you want to manage e.g. nested categories or implement anything that involves a need for a hirarchy for content items.

Further reading

• Detailed information about fetching content from the Cockpit API can be found at API.