ECMS solo user guide

I think I have missed the point somewhere and cannot find anything about this.

so I have a blog page on my website that points to a folder of posts. This works great. However using the Solo licence I create a sub folder in my posts folder and add a .md file to it. But I simply cannot see how to display this folder on my website. My website in elements has an equivalent folder, I have republished it.

apologies if this a dumb question but I have tried!

Do you have a page on your site that has a Collection component that points to this sub-folder?

No, I thought maybe having a sub folder of my blog posts folder would display the sub folder when I viewed the primary folder, you are saying I think I need to have a new collection pointed at this sub folder.

is that what you say I need to do?

Hi Dave,

I’m pretty sure it looks for .MD files in just the folder you point the collection to. So, yes I think you have to set up another collection for files in a sub-directory.

Not sure I understand…

I have the solo license and have 2 ‘blogs’

1 trumpet blog
1 trumpet podcast

They both point to different folders of content in the CMS main folder

Does that help?

Do you have a Collection component on your site using this new sub folder?

If you want to display the content you created in the sub folder, you need to hook up a Collection component to that folder.

Side note: I would avoid creating sub folders of content. It’s usually better to create dedicated top level folders and place content inside those. There are cases where you might want sub folders, so if you let me know what your use case / reasoning for creating the sub folder is, I can let you know if that’s a good idea or not :slight_smile:

Thanks Ben, I only used a sub folder because I believed (incorrectly) that this would show as a sub folder of my existing collection. I get it now.