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Collections: fields and items.

Testimonials, team, products, branches, a price list – or a documentation section like this one. Define the fields once, then add items.

A collection with item pages on and its fields

A collection with item pages on and its fields

Content → Collections are lists of similar things with their own fields. This guide itself is a collection: every article is an item with a category, summary, body and screenshots.

Create a collection

  1. Click New collection and give it a name, for example Team.
  2. URL – filled from the name if you leave it empty. With item pages on, items live at /url/item-name.
  3. Item pages – tick it when every item should have its own page (a product detail, an article). Without it, items are just cards in lists.
  4. Item fields – add the fields you need. Three empty rows appear each time you save, so save to add more (up to 30 fields).
Field typeFor
Short textOne line, up to 500 characters: a job title, a price label, a category.
Longer textPlain text with line breaks, up to 5,000 characters.
Formatted textParagraphs, headings, lists, links and tables – cleaned like any rich text.
ImageA picture from Media.
LinkA web address, e-mail or phone link.
NumberSorts as a number: prices, years, sizes.
DateA date in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
Item of another collectionA link to an item of another collection: a person’s branch, a reference’s service (see below).

Each field gets a tag such as {{position}}, made from its label. The key of a saved field never changes, because item values are stored under it – rename the label freely.

Every item always has a name ({{nazev}}), its page address ({{url}}), the date it was created ({{datum}}) and its address part ({{seo}}).

Add items

Open the collection and click New item. Besides the fields, each item has a URL, an order (smaller comes first), a visible switch and a language on multilingual sites. Duplicate creates a hidden copy – the fastest way to add a similar item.

Who can do what

Only administrators change the collection definition and the detail template. Anyone with access to Collections (editors by default) adds and edits items. Claude can create and change collections, add items and build the detail template over MCP.

A field of the type Item of another collection links two collections – a person to a branch, a reference to a service. Choose the linked collection next to the type; in the item you then pick the linked item.

  • {{branch}} shows the linked item’s name, {{branch_url}} its page.
  • On the linked item’s page, a Collection list filtered by the field with the value {{seo}} lists everything linked to it – the people of a branch, the references of a service.
  • Filter buttons of a Collection list show the names of the linked items and swap the list without reloading the page.

People

Collections → New team (people) creates a team with photo, role, languages, phone, e-mail, absence and a page for each person. In a person’s form, E-mail signature gives a signature in the look of the brand, ready to paste into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail.

Hidden items redirect to (in the collection settings): when a person leaves – or a product is no longer sold – hide or delete the item, and its page leads to the page you choose instead of “page not found”.

Editing an item: the fields of the collection plus order and visibility

Editing an item: the fields of the collection plus order and visibility

Still stuck?

Ask on GitHub or write to info@kaletacms.com – the guide gets better with every question.