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      How to configure content app using different node types.

      Use case:
      The case is, we try to create a node that allows to create and edit other node type inside this. For example: a content-app "country" that implements mgnl:country nodes to create and edit mgnl:destination item (without creating a destination content-app) like a node tree.

      Europe (mgnl:folder)
          ├───France (mgnl:country)
          ├───Italy  (mgnl:country)
          └───Spain  (mgnl:country)
              ├───Barcelona  (mgnl:destination)
              ├───Cadiz      (mgnl:destination)
              └───Madrid     (mgnl:destination)

      We know that on Magnolia 5 can be implement with each types of nodes and they can use their icons and different action of each type of node.

      Can you help us to implement that on Magnolia 6.2.5?


      Our example:
      Currently our Content Types module does not support multiple node types autogenerated apps. However you could always configure your app which uses multiple nodetypes such as our demo below:
      https://demo.magnolia-cms.com/.magnolia/admincentral#app:resources:edit;/contacts/apps/contacts-v8.yaml:edit

      You can use different icons for different nodetypes by configure "nodeTypeToIcon" property:

          workbench:
            contentViews:
              - name: tree
                dropConstraint:
                  $type: jcrDropConstraint
                  primaryNodeType: mgnl:contact
                $type: treeView
                columns: &columns
                  - name: jcrName
                    label: name
                    $type: jcrTitleColumn
                    editable: true
                    nodeTypeToIcon:
                      mgnl:contact: icon-people
                      mgnl:content: icon-folder
                    editor:
                      availability:
                        nodes: true
                        properties: true
      

      Also different actions on different nodetypes:

          actions:
            addFolder:
              $type: addNodeAction
              icon: icon-add-folder
              nodeType: mgnl:content
              availability:
                root: true
                nodeTypes:
                  content: mgnl:content
            addNode:
              $type: addNodeAction
              icon: icon-add-node-content
              nodeType: mgnl:contentNode
              availability:
                root: true
      

      Please help us document this properly for further referencing of other customers.

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