Adding new dynamic Sections to the "Add section" menu in 2.0

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At the bottom of the theme settings sidebar in 2.0, there’s an “Add section” button, which pulls up a menu of some of the Sections from the sections folder:

add-section-button.png

While the documentation is clear on how to restrict a specific section to one (or more) templates, I can’t find any way to white-list a section so it automatically appears within this “Add section” menu.

Additionally, it’s possible to add a Section automatically to a template, but I’m not sure how to allow a Shopify user to add a Section when it’s not already on the page.

Have I just overlooked something in the documentation?

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Hi @Ross_Angus ,

This means you already have created sections but it’s not showing in “add section”.

If so, you just need to add “presets” to the schema, it will display fine. Refer https://i.imgur.com/eD0hOit.png

Ex code:

"presets": [
    {
      "name": "Featured blog",
      "settings": {
        "blog": "News"
      }
    }
  ]

Hope it helps!

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Thanks, @LitExtension . I just did not spot that in the documentation.

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Where is that in the documentation?

And, in what file are you making that edit?

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Figured it out. The presets code is added to the bottom of the section page created.
What’s important however is that the “name” needs to exactly match the name at the top.

{% schema %}

{
“name”: “My Table Section”,
“tag”: “section”,