---
title: "Parenting & Associating entries 🔗"
date: "2023-08-15T13:52:05+03:00"
author: "anybody"
contributors: ["constantinos-miltiadis.md"] 
draft: false 
keywords:
  - guide
  - internal
abstract: |
  (Internal) Guide for parenting and associating entries.
---

# Introduction

Sandpoints allows parenting and associating different content types. This is done in the YAML header of a Markdown entry. Parenting content is done by providing a list of filenames of the children of a given entry. Associating content is done by providing a list of filenames of the associated entries (for an issue or article). 

As in the examples below, for either case: 
- provide filenames including extensions within quotations,  
- separate entries with commas, as in the examples below, and 
- make sure to leave a whitespace character been the colon and the square brackets. 
- Example `flag: ["something.md", "something-else.md"]` 

# Parenting content 

*Sandpoints* follows a triadic hierarchy, which, here is *Journal>Issue>Article*, or:     
```
Journal   
 └── Issue     
	└── Article
```

Thus, a journal has issues, and issues have articles. Following this convention, the YAML header section for each item that has children features the flag: 

```
has_<child-content-type-in-plural>: ["child-1.md", "child-2.md"]
```

The YAML section for a **journal** instance has the field: 
```
has_issues: []
```
And the YAML section of an **issue** instance has the field: 
```
has_articles: []
```

## Parenting issues to the journal 

```
---
title: "Game Design Knowledge & Practice Journal"
has_issues: ["issue-1.md", "issue-2.md"]
---
```

## Parenting articles to issues
```
---
title: "Some issue"
has_articles: ["article-1.md", "article-2.md"]
---
```

# Associating content 

Sandpoints allows associations between: 
- issues and editors, and 
- articles and contributors. 

This is done by providing a list of editors in the YAML section of an issue, or a list of contributors in the YAML section of an article, respectively. 
## Associating editors to issue

```
---
title: "Some Issue"
editors: ["jane-editor.md", "joe-editor.md"]
---
```
## Associating contributors to article

```
---
title: "Some Article"
contributors: ["jane-contributor.md", "joe-contributor.md"]
---
```