Predefined Neos NodeTypes

#Neos Node Types

Neos is shipped with a number of predefined NodeTypes. Typically you will create your own NodeTypes and define one of them as a super type. They can be useful types to extend, and Neos depends on some of them for proper behavior.

#Neos.Neos:Node

Neos.Neos:Node is an internal base type which should be extended by all content types which are used in the context of Neos. In most cases you will use its sub-types Neos.Neos:Document, Neos.Neos:Content or Neos.Neos:ContentCollection.

Neos.Neos:Node does not define any properties.

#Neos.Neos:Document

We differentiate between nodes which look and behave like pages and content rendered on a page such as text.

Nodes which behave like pages are called Document Nodes in Neos. They have a unique, externally visible URL by which they can be rendered.

#Neos.Neos:Content

Is used for all standard nodes within a page, such as text, image, youtube, …. This is–by far–the most often extended NodeType.

It inherits from Neos.Neos:Hidable, which allows to hide a node, so it is not rendered in the frontend, and Neos.Neos:Timable, which allows to define within which time frame a node is visible.

#Neos.Neos:ContentCollection

A Neos.Neos:ContentCollection has a structural purpose. It usually contains an ordered list of child nodes which are rendered inside. Neos.Neos:ContentCollection may be extended by custom types, and can be combined with Neos.Neos:Content.

There are two main use cases. First, if you want to have a Neos.Neos:Content or Neos.Neos:Document NodeType with automatically created child nodes, in which further content can be placed.

Example: Neos.Neos:ContentCollection as child node
'Vendor.Site:Content.TwoColumns':
  superTypes:
    'Neos.Neos:Content': true
  ui:
    label: 'Two Column Layout'
    icon: icon-columns
    position: 10
    group: structure
  childNodes:
    contentLeft:
      type: 'Neos.Neos:ContentCollection'
    contentRight:
      type: 'Neos.Neos:ContentCollection'

The other use case is a Neos.Neos:Content NodeType, which at the same time acts as a Neos.Neos:ContentCollection. An example is a slider which allows slides as direct children.

Example: Neos.Neos:ContentCollection as child node
'Vendor.Site:Content.Slider':
  superTypes:
    'Neos.Neos:Content': true
    'Neos.Neos:ContentCollection': true
  ui:
    label: 'Image Slider'
    icon: 'icon-image'
    group: structure
  constraints:
    nodeTypes:
      # only allow slides inside the slider
      '*': false
      'Vendor.Site:Content.Slider.Slide': true


'Vendor.Site:Content.Slider.Slide':
  superTypes:
    'Neos.Neos:Content': true
  ui:
    label: 'Slide'
    icon: 'icon-image'
    inspector:
      groups:
        image:
          label: 'Image'
          position: 5
          icon: 'icon-image'
  properties:
    image:
      type: Neos\Media\Domain\Model\ImageInterface
      ui:
        label: 'Image'
        reloadIfChanged: true
        inspector:
          group: 'image'
NodeType Definition