Nested blocks

Thanks for your time. There is no problem actually. For me it's just not ideal, that there is by default the first element «image» always inserted (visible in the edit mode). I would prefer to have the possibility to choose bottom right what should be used inside the news-block. By the way, Drew answered that nesting blocks is not possible... See this thread: https://forum.grabaperch.com/forum/11-09-2015-nested-blocks Many thanks!

There are two options of putting content elements: year or news. News has its own two options: image or movie. I would like to be able to enter image or movie the same kind as year or news. I don't want that there is already inserted the «image» when I add «news»

I think I would do it as 'articles' in a multi-item region, without the need for repeaters, in a template something like this:

<perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Date" format="%d %B %Y" required="true" />

<div class="col-sm-5">

    <perch:blocks>

        <perch:block type="image" label="Image">
            <perch:if exists="image">
                <img src="<perch:content … />" />
            </perch:if>
        </perch:block>

        <perch:block type="movie" label="Movie">
            <perch:if exists="movie">
                    <perch:content …/>
            </perch:if>
        </perch:block>

    </perch:blocks>

</div>

<div class="col-sm-5">
    <perch:content …/>
</div>

Then, if you're listing them out onto a page and you don't want to keep repeating the Date/Year for every article you should be able to use <perch:if> to only output the date if the Year is different to the previous item.

Thanks, great input! It's working fine, but the second block «type=movie» does not appear. When I use its content (class="movie-item") without perch:blocks it's ok. Any idea what could be wrong? Many thanks!

Here's my full code:

<div class="row row-centered">
    <div class="col-sm-6 col-sm-offset-3">
        <perch:if different="date" format="Y">
            <p class="quote"><perch:content id="year" type="date" label="Date" format="Y" required="true" /></p>
        </perch:if>   
    </div>
</div><!-- /.row -->

<div class="row voffset">
    <div class="col-sm-5 col-sm-offset-1">

        <perch:blocks>

            <perch:block type="image" label="Image">
                <perch:if exists="image">
                    <div class="image">
                      <img src="<perch:content type="image" label="Bild" id="image" width="720" help="Masse mind: 720 x 480 (3:2)" />" alt="<perch:content type="text" id="alt" label="Bildlegende (unsichtbar)" help="SEO relevant!" title="true" />" />
                    </div>
                </perch:if>
            </perch:block>

            <perch:block type="movie" label="Movie">
                <perch:if exists="movie">
                    <div class="movie-item">
                      <div class="video-container">
                        <perch:content id="youtube" label="youtube iframe" type="textarea" html="true" help="iframe-Code hier einfügen (Masse mind. 1280px breit)"size="xs"/>
                      </div>
                      <div class="video-lightbox">
                        <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<perch:content id="youtube-link" type="url" label="youtube URL" help="Nur ID eintragen (ohne https://youtu.be/)" />"><h5 class="movie" style="background-image: url(../../../graphics/movie-button.svg), url(<perch:content id="bgimage-youtube" type="image" label="youtube Vorschaubild" help="Masse: 480 x 320 (3:2)" />);"></h5></a>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                </perch:if>
            </perch:block>

        </perch:blocks>
    </div>

    <div class="col-sm-5">
        <p class="quote"><perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Datum" format="%d %B %Y" required="true"/></p>
              <h2 class="quote"><perch:content id="heading" type="text" label="Titel"/></h2>
              <perch:content id="text" type="textarea" label="Text" textile="true" editor="markitup" html="true" size="m"/>
    </div>
</div><!-- /.row -->

Thanks, silly fault. However, I have another problem. How can I reuse the date content again? Would be nice the editor only has to put the date once and the output is once just the year and once the exact date.

<perch:content id="year" type="date" label="Date" format="Y" required="true" />

For the moment I have the same date-attribute twice with different formats.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot, works all fine now!