New posts don't work

[brianrc]

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
bug
- What is the current behavior?
submitting new post hangs and doesn't upload anything to my git repo
- If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.
create new post -> enter in test info and submit -> errors in console
- What is the expected behavior?
new post uploaded to repo
- Please mention your node.js, and operating system version.
site deployed using your defaults: node v6.9.1 and Google Chrome Version 54.0.2840.99 m (64-bit)

[biilmann]

Which version of the CMS are you using? This ought to be fixed in the newest release, but let me know if that's not the case...

[brianrc]

I guess it's this one:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/netlify-cms/dist/cms.js"></script>

[cassiozen]

Hi @brianrc. Can you share your config.yml file? I'll try to replicate your setup here.

[brianrc]

Yes, it's right here. https://github.com/brianrc/phenomictest/blob/master/admin/config.yml

[cassiozen]

I'm taking a look right now.

[cassiozen]

Found the error, @brianrc :

In your config file, you need to add a slug configuration. Something like:

collections:
  - name: "post"
    label: "Post"
    folder: "content/posts"
    create: true
    slug: "{{slug}}"
    fields:
      - {label: "Title", name: "title", widget: "string"}
      - {label: "Body", name: "body", widget: "markdown"}
      - {label: "Layout", name: "layout", widget: "string", default: "Post"}
    meta:
      - {label: "Publish Date", name: "date", widget: "datetime"}

The slug can contain the special keys day, month and year. For example:

slug: "{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}-{{slug}}"

Now, the CMS can certainly handle this better. I'll make the CMS assume a default slug format if none is provided.

[brianrc]

Thank you. That makes sense. It's saving to github now, but it's still not really working though.

It needs to produce output like this:

---
title: This is a title
date: 2016-02-14
layout: Post
---

This is the body.

Instead it's producing output like so:

---
path: content/posts/this-is-a-title.md
title: This is a title
---

This is the body.

Where did path come from and why is it ignoring layout and date?

[cassiozen]

Humm, I see. Let me take a look.

[cassiozen]

Hi @brianrc. Just published a new release (0.1.9) and your issues should be resolved.

I'll close this for now. Thanks a lot for working on this with us. If there's any other problems, please reopen.