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From YouTube: How to view all work deployed with Netlify CMS, and connecting topic pages with child topics

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Barker and Tyler discuss how to find what's been deployed via Netlify CMS in the www-gitlab-com repository, how to link topic pages to child topic pages, and upcoming changes to this video series.

Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PB2s68K4Wtimeai5OYfcjgktjm_tgsZWHRynk9dq-NI/edit

A

What hello parker.

B

A

B

I just waved my camera's off I'm eating my lunch, but.

A

I waved your smiley face. Is there um we're gonna go through uh a couple items for this series in our netlify learning resource videos and the first one um I wanted to share is how do you view all the work that's been deployed by netlify cms and you want to know like what's been done? How can we find out who's using it and we go down here to resources.

A

We have three labels that netlify cms applies to merge, requests that they open netify, cms draft network cns, pending review and pending publish, and each of these are going to take you to uh all the merge requests that have those labels. The first here is like all the ones that are open, looks like they're all me doing test things, but if you go over to this merged tab, we can see all of the work that has been merged with this label. So we got a lot of topic pages.

A

I see surrey in there, hanniff hannah's been in there val sarah, oh cormac, super cool um love it and each of these, if I go back a little more, um we'll find a different group of them under the pending review.

A

So these would be, mrs that actually went through the editorial flow and they drag the post from one column to the other and they get the new label, see rebecca dodd, chrissy, siri tyler, it's awesome and then, if you can come into either of these and see exactly what they did so for this one, they created a new topic page and you can see here's the new data file that got created- and here is all of the content.

B

A

I have my roommate's dog, making an appearance.

B

I understand that.

A

It's just really handy and you can see it's getting used so that was 11 there. I think we had 18 in the other and then let's see oh, we got 18 in here so gosh it's about 60 70., um different mr's that have been opened using netflix cms, it's awesome, so the system is getting straight yeah.

A

It's awesome. Super cool and next thing I wanted to go over is adding suggested and related content to the topic template. So if I open val um had a slack thread open about, um I'm gonna actually open the admin. When you uh create a child topic page, it doesn't automatically get added to the parent topic page.

A

It's going to take 2mr, so you're going to need one, mr edition, first, to create the child topic page. So, uh let's go to what is developer security first, take a second to load. So this is the child topic page come on there we go um and we can see here. The parent topic is application, security and here's um what the canonical r url will be. But this is what the final url is going to be, and then you just check to make sure. Okay, parent topic topics, so this is the right url.

A

This is the child topic.

A

Now we're going to go over to our topic. What did I say? Agile security.

B

A

uh Yeah application, security, yep, and so here's our parent topic page for application security and if I want to go, add it to here related content. This is what's going to show in the header, and I forgot what pages? What is developer? First security. I have the arm here so cool. So we can see this. Child page is already added.

A

It's there. It's working and I can demonstrate that by going to the live parent topic page- and these are the links right here when you add a chat page- it's not going to get added here to the parent topic automatically. You have to manually go. Do it.

B

Do you want to show how to do that in that interface, because we showed it as it existed right, yeah.

C

B

um From the parent topic page right- it's just here so if we were to click, does x, delete it.

C

B

So if it were deleted right and then you add, there's a button in the top right there to add, and then you can title in the url.

C

Yeah, let me go get the what is developer security.

A

So you got to get the url just the the root put the url here and then what's the text and the link going to be so what is developer first curity and then you push the save button and that's going to fire up a merge request with a change now, because this really isn't changed. It'll actually put them in a different order in the yaml file. So it will create a merge request which we can go, find it's gonna take a little bit.

C

We should actually be able to go um to this. I have this handbook page bookmarked,.

B

Yeah I've got mine there too, in my gitlab folder.

A

Yay, when you get the green box, it's a really happy day and I come over here, nutlify boom. It makes me so happy every time it shows up. It's so cool, it's so cool, and here we're going to see all that change was. Is it. Why did that change? um But we can see here they reordered it. So now, instead of this coming up. Second it'll come up last right uh right, but I'm not gonna.

B

I'm not gonna.

A

Instead, I'm just gonna say this was a test and I'm gonna close. It.

B

Cool it's a test of the emergency, mr system,.

A

Yeah, uh I think you had one thing down there.

B

Yeah um here I'll talk into the camera for a little bit, um so just I think the last item on our agenda. This is we've done. Maybe half a dozen of these videos um somewhat regularly, but we've canceled a bunch because we haven't had uh content. I think also. We've noticed that folks have other questions that maybe we haven't covered, or maybe we covered in the wrong direction. So um I think for our future videos uh we were talking before the recording about um going through and proactively soliciting questions.

B

Finding folks who are using netlify, cms answering questions. They have find folks who aren't using netify cms and find out. Why and how and what we can do to you know if there's, if there's answer, if there's questions, we can answer to make that easier. Do it here and if not we'll scope out some work for and figure out what makes sense to prioritize, but um just a heads up for the the future recordings of this segment. I think we'll just um we'll be taking more listener questions is, is the idea.

A

Yeah that'll be really good, how's it working out for you. What can we do for you to make it easier cool? Well, that's all we got for this session so we'll sign off.

B

Yeah thanks everyone.