Online Store 2.0 - add a custom section

Retired Boards Appdev Store Design
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I want to add a custom section to our theme. We’re currently rebuilding the online store 2.0 theme “Dawn” to fit our old theme.
Therefore I want to add a custom section that I can select within the theme customizer, but it doesn’t appear.
Is it even possible?

I created a “main-collection-description.liquid” within the section path.

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Not accessible within the customizer

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Manually added the description section within the collection.json (still doesn’t appear in the collection)

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What did I miss? I can’t find any info about it within the docs.
Thanks for any advice.

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Hi,

You need to add preset in your schema.

Thanks

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Thank you, that did the trick.
But I still don’t know exactly why, because even in the presets the name just does repeat the “name” attribute in the first place. Why do we need this for visibility?

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Hi,

You can read the below article by Shopify

How to Create Your First Shopify Theme Section — Shopify Theme Development (2022)

Thanks