Updating an existing Collection item

Matt, you should be able to first click "Pages", then click "Collections" click the collection where your content is stored, then from the list of Collection Items you schould be able to click on the "Title" of the item and this will put you into "Edit" mode for that item.

The process is nearly exact to editing a page or page region.

Thanks Robert! I was trying to figure out how to do it through code, rather than the interface - can you help?? :)

We're using the API to import items in to a Collection. If an item already exists (identified by a required field), we need to update the existing item.

No, it doesn't appear to :(

Can you help me figure out how to do it?

I'll leave this here for posterity, in case anyone comes across the same issue - I managed to do it in the end by matching the existing item like:

$matchingItem = perch_collection('CollectionName', [
    'count' => 1,
    'filter' => 'a_collection_fieldname',
    'match' => 'eq',
    'value' => $value,
    'skip-template' => true
    ], true);

Then if I get a match, I grab any existing data I need to keep, and add it to the new record I'm importing. Then I delete the old item with

$Collections = new PerchContent_Collections;
$Collection = $Collections->get_one_by('collectionKey', 'CollectionName');
$Collection->delete_item($matchingItem['_id']);

Seems to work merrily :)