Creating single use documents in Sanity.io and resolving issues with edit-only fields.

Hi everyone!Does anyone know how I create single use documents? For example, for general company info like uploading the logo, company addresses etc. Or another use case, would be for a homepage of a website – whereby you'd only allow one – basically a single object, rather than an array

A ‘singleton’ is what you’re looking for. This might help: https://www.sanity.io/docs/create-a-link-to-a-single-edit-page-in-your-main-document-type-list

Amazing! that was super quick too. Thank you - i am new to Sanity so still getting my head around things

No problem!

Hey so I've followed the instructions and seem to have it set up. However, the fields within the document are edit only and I can't understand why. Are you familiar with this situation and why that might be?

Can you share your schema?

Sure. here you go

hmm, schema looks okay at first glance. Try adding back in

create

in this line:
Update that document, then comment it back out again. I think it’s because right now that document doesn’t exist
🤔

Cory’s suggestion gets at the likely cause; the document needs to exist before setting

__experimental_actions

in the schema.

that worked! thank you. That documentation might need to be tweaked then.

One thing though, as there is no title, is there a way to 'hardcode' the title in? looks a bit wierd remaining as 'untitled'

I wonder, is there a way of getting around having to enable and then disable 'creation'? I expect this will become problematic when new environments are created. I am also trying to set up a boilerplate sanity schame set up to use on many sites and this is something that could be easily forgotten and a niggly, seemingly hacky code change (and revert) that needs doing every time to establish the single document in the database.

I usually make a little node script that goes and creates all the necessary singleton documents.

Ah clever. sounds a bit too advanced for my level though. Is is an easy drop in script, or does it require some back end dev experience to set up?