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The lists you keep

The things on your site that repeat — dishes, services, projects, articles — live as lists you edit like a form. No chat needed.

One price changed. That is the whole job — and on most websites it means messaging whoever built it, or hunting through a builder for the box that price lives in.

On your site the repeating things live in lists, and editing one is filling in a form. It takes a minute.

What becomes a list

Whatever repeats on your site, decided when it was built. A restaurant gets dishes. A salon gets services. A photographer gets projects. A writer gets articles. A shop gets products.

You will find them down the side of your project, each one named for what it holds — Services, Menu, Projects — with the number of things in it. Open one and you get the list; open an item and you get its form.

What an item looks like

Labelled boxes you fill in: a name, a price, a description, a photo, a date. Nothing to drag, and nothing you can knock out of alignment. The page keeps its layout whatever you type.

See Editing something in a list for the full walk through, including saving something half-finished.

Adding and removing

Same form. New dish, retired service, project you just finished — one at a time, no help needed.

Adding a hundred things at once is not something Spanli does today. There is no way to load a list in from a spreadsheet, so items are typed in one at a time. That suits a menu or a portfolio; it does not suit a large catalogue, and it is better to know that before you start typing.

Asking for a new kind of list

If your site is missing one — you have started running workshops, and there is nowhere to put them — ask in chat: "we run workshops now, we need somewhere to list them with a date, a price and a photo."

The list is created along with somewhere on the site for it to appear, and after that you keep it up to date yourself through the form.

When to use chat instead

Use the form for what the thing says: names, prices, descriptions, photos.

Use chat for how it looks: "show the menu in two columns", "put the photo above the name", "the prices are too small to read". Those are changes to the section, not to the items in it.