Content modeling and custom types

Introduction to Custom Type building

What are Custom Types and how to create and structure a new one (Singleton, repeater, builder, slices, etc.)

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Document tab organization

Use tabs to organize the editor and give a better editing experience to your writers

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Adding anchor links

Insert a clickable table of contents that scrolls down to a specific section of the page along with URLs pointing to the section

Written by Nathan Lamelliere
Updated over a week ago

Setting up and retrieving hierarchical content

Here are 2 approaches for setting up a content hierarchy such as categories or parent pages

Written by Nathan Lamelliere
Updated over a week ago

Add Custom Styles to Rich Text

How to use labels to add style options in your Rich Text fields

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

What is the difference between Rich Text and Key Text?

When to use one vs the other?

Written by Phil Snow
Updated over a week ago

How to add nofollow, alt, attributes to links

As part of your SEO strategy, you might need content editors to have more control over the attributes of links inserted into the content.

Written by Nathan Lamelliere
Updated over a week ago

Create a Table

Create a table by using slices or embed one created with a third-party service

Written by Raul Gonzalez
Updated over a week ago

Creating a 2 level Navigation Menu

An example of modeling a 2-level navigation custom type

Written by Nathan Lamelliere
Updated over a week ago

Creating a 3+ level Navigation Menu

How to create a 3 level or bigger menu in Primsic. Learn how model your menu custom type to create a large navigation menu.

Written by Phil Snow
Updated over a week ago

Nested lists using slices

How to create and render multi-level nested lists

Written by Raul Gonzalez
Updated over a week ago

How to add a quote to your page

On this page you'll discover how to create a quote field in your custom types, fill the content and template this in your project.

Written by Phil Snow
Updated over a week ago

Adding Custom Embed or HTML code

Here we present the options for adding custom embed or custom html code to your documents

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Slices - How to structure dynamic documents

Create fluid document to give more flexibility to your writer

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Reuse a Slice in Another Custom Type

How to add your slices to the existing slices library to use in other Custom Types

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Convert Deprecated Slices

Migrating from the legacy Slice into the new and improved Slices structure

Written by Raul Gonzalez
Updated over a week ago

Boolean

The Boolean field allows content writers to choose between true or false.

Written by Paulina Gavilán
Updated over a week ago

Color

A color field that corresponds to a hex color value

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Content Relationship

Link to another document in your Prismic repository

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Date

Date field that represents a calendar day

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Embed

An embed field where content writers can paste an oEmbed url for simple embed integration

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

GeoPoint

A geopoint field corresponding to geolocation coordinates

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Group

A group field that allows other content fields to be grouped together in repeatable sections

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Image

An Image field that can be configured with size constraints and responsive views

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Key Text

A key text field corresponding to a single string value

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Link

Link to the web, internal content, or a media library file.

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Link to Media

Link to an asset in your media library

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Number

A number field with optional max and min values

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Rich Text

Offer a rich text editor with formatting options

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Select

A select field that provides content writers a dropdown list of options to choose from

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Timestamp

Timestamp field that corresponds to a date and a time

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Slices

Define dynamic zones to allow your content writers to compose richer page layouts.

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Title

A text field for your page titles

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

UID

Unique identifier to facilitate your query and structure your URLs.

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

What happens if I remove or rename the API ID of a Prismic field?

Know about the impacts of modifying the API ID of your fields

Written by Nathan Lamelliere
Updated over a week ago

What happens when you change your custom type?

Here we discuss what happens to your existing data when you make changes to your custom type

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Can I change a Custom Type API ID?

It unfortunately isn't possible to change a Custom Type API ID. Here's how to move your content to a new Custom Type.

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

How to version custom types

Using github to version control your custom types

Written by Renaud Bressand
Updated over a week ago

Recover a Deleted Custom Type

How to recover an old Custom Type that has been deleted

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago

Disabling, Restoring, & Deleting Custom Types

How to disable or delete Custom Types you no longer need, or how to restore a previously disabled type.

Written by Levi Gable
Updated over a week ago