Enhancement: Reusing fields of other content types

[estruyf]

Discussed in #559

^{Originally posted by itsjavi April 3, 2023}
I have 2 content types that have a very similar structure: "Page" and "Article", and I'd like to combine the fields that these 2 content types have in common, to avoid repeating the configuration. Kind of an "inheritance" / merge.

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[estruyf]

I am thinking about the following configuration/setup to reuse the fields:

{
  "frontMatter.taxonomy.fieldGroups": [
    {
      "id": "GeneralFields",
      "fields": [
        {
          "title": "Title",
          "name": "title",
          "type": "string",
          "single": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Description",
          "name": "description",
          "type": "string"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "frontMatter.taxonomy.contentTypes": [
    {
      "name": "default",
      "pageBundle": false,
      "previewPath": "'blog'",
      "filePrefix": null,
      "fields": [
        {
          "name": "fieldCollection",
          "type": "fieldCollection",
          "fieldGroup": "GeneralFields"
        },
        {
          "title": "Publishing date",
          "name": "pubDate",
          "type": "datetime",
          "default": "{{now}}",
          "isPublishDate": true
        },
        {
          "title": "Content preview",
          "name": "heroImage",
          "type": "image",
          "isPreviewImage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Do you have any feedback on this @Fasani @itsjavi?

Edit: I think reusing the frontMatter.taxonomy.fieldGroups would be better. This setting allows you to set field groups for the new fieldCollection and block fields.

[itsjavi]

@estruyf that will be enough :) thanks!

[estruyf]

Great, I have added this logic to the latest beta version. Please feel free to test it out and let me know how it works for you.

[itsjavi]

@estruyf I finally could test it and works as expected, thanks for adding this! <3