Hi,

I'm trying to add extra fields to BlogCategory, but after adding them to the $db array and running dev/build no new fields are created.

If I add a new field to /blog/code/model/BlogPost.php::db and run dev/build then the field is created as expected.

Is there some special build that I need to run to get dev/build to recognise new config changes in /blog/code/model/BlogCategory.php.

The site uses Silverstripe 3.2.

Thanks, Paul

Realised I should be doing this via /mysite/code/Extensions instead, so tried the following:

Created /mysite/code/Extensions/BlogCategoryExtension.php:

<?php
class BlogCategoryExtension extends DataExtension {

	private static $db = array(
		'Description' => 'Varchar(255)',
		'MetaTitle' => 'Varchar(255)',
		'MetaDescription' => 'Varchar(255)',
	);
	
	public function updateCMSFields(FieldList $fields) {
	  $fields->push(new TextField('Description'));
	  $fields->push(new TextField('MetaTitle'));
	  $fields->push(new TextField('MetaDescription'));
	}
	
}

I then added the following to /mysite/_config/config.yml:

...
BlogCategory:
  extensions:
    - BlogCategoryExtension
...

Then ran /dev/build.

No field was added to the database table and when I try and access the blog part of silverstripe's admin I just get a grey screen. If I remove the lines I added to config.yml and run /dev/build again all returns to normal.

I'm 99.9% certain this has something to do with BlogCategory being passed through Injector and renamed to BlogCategoryLinkCustomisation.

I needed to extend BlogTag in the same way so tested with the process detailed above and that worked fine.

So, I then added the following to config.yml:

...
Injector:
   BlogCategory:
     class: BlogCategoryLinkCustomisation
BlogCategoryLinkCustomisation:
  extensions:
    - BlogCategoryExtension
BlogTag:
  extensions:
    - BlogTagExtension
...

When I run /dev/build no fields are created for BlogCategory, but when I view the BlogCategory admin form I do have 3 extra fields ... which is some form of progress. Any advice on how I extend BlogCategory when it's been passed through Injector?