How to Change the Name of a Document Type

9 replies

Last updated: Jun 11, 2022

Does anyone know of an easy way to rename a document name?

Jun 11, 2022, 2:28 AM

By that do you mean the

_type

Jun 11, 2022, 2:45 AM

I think so.

Jun 11, 2022, 7:30 AM

More like the

name

Jun 11, 2022, 2:23 PM

I want to restructure my schema by renaming the

name

of documents

Jun 11, 2022, 2:23 PM

I realized this wasn’t as obvious as I expected, because renaming the

name

results in empty data

Jun 11, 2022, 2:23 PM

The

name

specified in the schema is what becomes the document’s

_type

. So this:

export default {
  name: 'post',
  title: 'Post',
  type: 'document',
  fields: [
    // ...
  ]
}

Will result in all those documents having a

_type

post

. This is currently the suggested way to change document types. We’re looking at simplifying things.

Jun 11, 2022, 3:48 PM

Some sort of CLI tool would make this so easy 🤤

Jun 11, 2022, 4:27 PM

I will give that a try, thanks

user A

Jun 11, 2022, 4:27 PM

or if this were in Studio that would make Sanity flow perfect

Jun 11, 2022, 4:32 PM

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