Code - Collection List - Dawn Theme

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user modified the Dawn theme’s collection list code to increase the maximum blocks from 15 to 20, which subsequently prevented theme updates.

When attempting to revert the change back to 15, a validation error persisted: “block exceeds maximum of 15 for section ‘502d8236-3293-4e3b-acb1-642a779effe3’.” The user couldn’t locate this specific section in the code.

Resolution:

  • Installed a fresh blank Dawn theme
  • Copied the collections.list code from the new installation to the existing store
  • Successfully updated to the latest theme version

The issue is now resolved.

Summarized with AI on October 28. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Hi. I thought I was very clever by increasing the code for max blocks from 15 to 20 on the Dawn theme however this is stopping me from updating to the latest version. I have gone back and changed this back to 15 but I keep getting the error message: validation failed: block exceeds maximum of 15 for section ‘502d8236-3293-4e3b-acb1-642a779effe3’.

I have tried searching the code for this section with no luck.

Any help would be massively appreciated here. :slightly_smiling_face:

Ingrid

2

Hello. Can you share your code of that file so that we can look at it?

3

Hello!

I worked it out.

I installed a new blank Dawn Theme and then copy and pasted the code from
collections.list to my existing store and I was then able to update to the
latest version.

Thanks for getting in touch anyway!! :slightly_smiling_face:

Ingrid

4

Great. Thanks for the confirmation.