New schema documents not appearing in localhost or sanity.io/manage

Based on your description, I think there's some confusion about where you should see your schema changes. Let me clarify:

Important: The sanity.io/manage site is your project management dashboard - it's not your actual Studio where you edit content. You won't see your schema changes there. That's just for managing projects, datasets, team members, and billing.

Your actual content Studio is:

• Running locally at localhost:3333 (dev environment)
• OR deployed to a URL like yourproject.sanity.studio (production)

Why your new document types aren't showing up:

Since you mentioned you've imported them in schema.js, here are the most common issues:

1. Check your sanity.config.js file

Your schema needs to be registered in your sanity.config.js (or .ts) file, not just imported in a schema file. It should look something like this:

import { defineConfig } from 'sanity'
import { structureTool } from 'sanity/structure'
import { schemaTypes } from './schemas'

export default defineConfig({
  name: 'default',
  title: 'My Project',
  projectId: 'your-project-id',
  dataset: 'production',
  
  plugins: [structureTool()],
  
  schema: {
    types: schemaTypes, // Your schemas need to be here
  },
})

2. Restart your dev server

After adding new document types, you must restart your local Studio:

• Stop your dev server (Ctrl+C)
• Run sanity dev (or npm run dev) again

Schema changes don't always hot-reload properly.

3. Check for errors

Look at your terminal/console where you're running the Studio. Any schema validation errors will show up there and prevent types from loading. Common issues:

• Syntax errors in your schema files
• Missing required fields (like name or type)
• Circular dependencies between schema types

4. Verify your schema exports

If you have a separate schema file, make sure you're properly exporting all types:

// schemas/index.js
import myNewDocument from './myNewDocument'
import anotherNewDocument from './anotherNewDocument'

export const schemaTypes = [
  myNewDocument,
  anotherNewDocument,
  // ... other existing types
]

About deployed Studios:

If you have a deployed Studio (using sanity deploy), you need to rebuild and redeploy to see schema changes there:

sanity deploy

The auto-updates feature only handles Sanity framework version updates - it doesn't automatically sync your custom schema changes.

Quick checklist:

1. ✅ Schema types are exported from your schema file
2. ✅ Schema types are registered in sanity.config.js under schema.types
3. ✅ Dev server has been restarted
4. ✅ No errors in the terminal/console
5. ✅ Run sanity deploy to update your production Studio

If you're still stuck after checking these, share any error messages from your console - that'll help pinpoint the exact issue!