Installs the Flex Content Collection and easily adds the flex content editor to a Directus collection
The package will install the following collections:
- Flex Content Collection (
tngl_flex_content
)- Table that contains the flex content editor and plain fields that is supposed to store the content of a directus collection
- Flex Content Nodes Collection (
tngl_flex_content_nodes
)- Junction table between the flex content table and node components
- The node components are separate tables. These node components are relational data types that can be added to the content editor
- Embed
- Image
- Resource
- Section
It automatically sets the following:
- Creates a new role called Website. If the Website role already exist, it will not create a new one.
- Website role will have READ permission to all collections in this package
- Directus >= 10.10.1
- Node >= 18.x.x
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Before you proceed, install the following Directus extensions
- directus-extension-inline-form-interface
- directus-extension-flexible-editor
- @tanglemedia/directus-extension-plainify-flex
- to generate plainified version of the flex content
- @tanglemedia/directus-collection-embed
- to relate the embed node component to the
tngl_embed
table
- to relate the embed node component to the
- @tanglemedia/directus-collection-resource
- to relate the resource node component to the
tngl_resource
table
- to relate the resource node component to the
- @tanglemedia/directus-collection-section-banner
- to relate the resource node component to the
tngl_secbanner
table
- to relate the resource node component to the
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Add the following variables to your Directus env file:
-
FLEX_COLLECTION
- comma-separated names of collections that you want to add the flex content editor into
- make sure these tables are installed (exist) first before you install this package
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npm i @tanglemedia/directus-collection-flex-editor
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npx directus bootstrap
to update your database and restart directus