How to create chapters?

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Hi there, I am new to contenful and like it so far. I am quite content.

However, I am struggling to find a good pattern to create chapters. For example, I would like to group a bunch of posts, and then create mini book.

They way I have done it is via creating a book content, where I add a title, description, pic etc. When I publish that, that gives you an id, then I add that id to the chapters and so generate all the chapters and add a ref to the id for the book. But this seems really clunky. The reason is, there needs to be a certain order for the chapters and that needs to be managed. So for example, I decide there is actually a missing chapter that needs to go to place 3 then I have to update all other chapters.

A good way would be to have a repeater for richtext. Is this possible? Or one can include content model inside a content model?

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

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You can create a content type for book and another content type for chapter. And give them the fields you like.

  • Probably there would be a Rich Text field inside chapter, where you can write all the text for this chapter.

  • Then inside book you can create a reference field named “chapter” with “many references” and configure it inside validations to “Accept only specified entry type: chapter”.

This way you can create, edit and rearrange the order of the chapters inside the book content type.

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ramirezsandin thank you very much for the quick response, that has done the trick. Quite easy.