Removing the "Create New Document" icon and omitting certain documents in Sanity.

Hey everyone! I have used Sanity for a while, but I just noticed (after all these years) that the

Create New Document

icon on the top bar allows a user to create documents that I may not want created. For instance I have document types such as the

homePage

and

siteSettings

that I do not want to be created again... This hasnt been an issue for me or my clients, because I always tell them to create documents within the editor. I am wondering if its possible to remove the

Create New Document

icon or perhaps omit certain documents from that?

Hi User. Yes, you can do this. One way is using actions , which are easier to implement but are experimental and will be deprecated soon (per those docs—I don’t know details on this). The second way is using initial value templates , which take a bit more to set up but this is the “preferred” method going forward.

Thanks for this ... I may go with the actions since I can see how that works a bit better. I am a bit confused on how to implement omitting certain documents with the example provided within the initial value templates.
Though maybe I'll just figure that out as a future-proof solution

Sounds good. Sometimes a deprecation needs to be tomorrow’s problem. 😆

Lol maybe it will be deprecated in like 5-10 years? Just don't tell anyone about this issue ya know? 😝

Actually I see there is an example of this on the Hydrogen Studio template... has a

constants.js

set up that feeds into

newDocumentStructure.js

https://github.com/sanity-io/sanity-shopify-studio/blob/c03de5e8d951ac737d5b0cd4a8a0b3e76b125a13/parts/newDocumentStructure.js
So I may just copy this!

Nice! Solving problems ahead of schedule.

Maybe this helps as well: https://kittygiraudel.com/2022/05/21/simple-access-management-with-sanity/#updating-the-create-new-document-dialog 🙂