Gutenberg-Block: supports: multiple => false

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Hey there,

just purchased Pinegrow yesterday and I’m happy to be part of the community here. I’ve played around with the Test-Version before and also read a lot of your docs and watched a few Videos before buying it!

I like the product so far. I have mainly bought it to create custom Gutenberg Blocks for my customers to come away from the old, clunky ACF/Metabox Interfaces and provide a bit more flexibility. I’ve decided to do my first Project, which is a Jobportal, in Pinegrow!

Since their sites are not created by me and they rely on an old theme (maybe I can update that one day too :-D) I’ve decided to go with a custom Plugin instead of a Theme. There’s also a lot of extra functionality inside of the Plugins which will integrate automatically the job-posting with google-jobs and such stuff.

I guess that’s enough Context: I’ve encountered a little Problem for which I’ve a small workaround but I would appreciate if it could be integrated in any future Update. Maybe there’s already such an option and I wasn’t able to find it. If that’s the case please apologize my post!

I have created a template which preloads all Gutenberg-Blocks into the page when a new job-posting is created. So the layout is kind of prefilled, they only have to adapt the placeholders then. Now i would like to restrict the main-content Container (which holds a lot of nested stuff in it) and a few other nested containers, which were necessary to create 3 or 4 deep-nests, to be only used once on a page.

I know that Gutenberg-Blocks have that feature. So if I set supports: multiple => false the block could then only appear once per site (see here: Restrict Gutenberg Blocks to Single Use - Stack Overflow)

My workaround is to set the allowed parents to a random-number/chars. Which works, but if the client deletes the container by accident from that page he can’t bring it back.

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Sorry for the long first post, hope you understand what exactly my Problem is. Otherwise please let me know and I try to explain it a bit further! :wink:

Thanks in Advance for your Help!

Cheers
Wolfgang

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Did you solve this @Wolfgang.Hartl ?

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Unfortunately not.

I’m still using my workaround which is about the “allowed block types”, but that is really only a workaround and doesn’t stop them to use a block more than once if they really want to.

So I hope that in any future version the multiple support Attribute will be added to Pinegrow, @matjaz (just tagging you in case you’ve overread that post, it’s nothing which should have a high priority in my opinion, but still a nice feature)! :wink:

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@Wolfgang.Hartl I started to work on that but then got distracted by your other requests :wink:

It is on the to do for the next release.

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Hehe yeah a lot of input these days, and i hardly can’t believe that you already integrated that amount of requests (not only from me but also from the others) in that short period. So i have to speak out my compliments to the good work your doing!! I fell in love with Pinegrow and also with the way your treating customers, thanks for that! :wink: :confetti_ball::crown::tada:

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Multiple=false was added. Out soon!

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Ooooooh that is fantastic, awesome!!! Thanks! Just in time … I am just about to create a block where i really need it, and I thought I’m gonna do a shortcode meanwhile, but now I can use the full power of the block! :slight_smile: