Use the same section name more than once

[angrybrad]

Created by: Mark Reeves ([email protected]) on 2015/09/30 12:42:44 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 5

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When creating a Section, I understand why Handle needs to be unique, but there are use cases for using the same value for Name for multiple Sections.

If I create a Channel that contains Issues of a periodical, that is the correct name for that channel. In our site, each publication is an Issue, collectively they are Issues. (This is coming from the client.)

I also want to have a Single section named Issues that allows the client to edit the content that appears at the top of a page that lists all of the issues found in the Issues channel. The title of this page is Issues; The section name should match.

While I could just rely on issues/index.html in the templates dir to drive this page, I want to make a portion of it editable, and I want to stick with the convention that non-Structure or Channel pages are edited as Singles.

Thus I should be able to have a channel named Issues, and a single named Issues. I'm happy to use a handle such as issuesPage for the latter. They reside in different areas in the control panel, and are logically separated, so they should be able to use the same name.