Dynamic Content: Collections – Duda Support

Collections are an essential part of customized dynamic content solutions, such as dynamic pages. They function like databases that store lists of items with the same type of information (such as name, location, image, etc.). Collections serve as the data source, enabling the automatic display of updated content on dynamic pages or across your site when using collections on regular pages. While built-in features like blogs also use dynamic content, collections are critical for customized dynamic content solutions.

There are four types of collections (see Collection Types in this article). While collections are essential for dynamic pages, they can also be used on regular pages. For more information, see: Dynamic Pages and Collections for Regular Pages.

Note

Available on Team plans and higher.

(Different plans have different offerings. Please confirm your plan and visit our plans page for your plan's offerings.)
Collections for Legacy Pro and Team plans are limited to 1 internal collection per site with 10 rows.

For example, a collection might contain information about properties available to rent:

Collection Types

You can create many types of collections.

Dynamic Content: Internal Collections (stored in the editor)
Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections (available on Agency and higher)
Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections. (available on Agency and higher)
Dynamic Content: External Collections (only available on Custom plans)

Collection Guidelines

Limitations and Specifications per Collection Type

	Internal Collections Available on Team plans and higher.	Google Sheets Available on Agency plan and higher.	Airtable Available on Agency plan and higher.	External Available on Custom plans. If you want to upgrade your plan, schedule time with our team.
Collection Number per Site	100 Note Legacy Pro and Team plans are limited to 1	100	100	100
A single collection's data	N/A	20MB	20MB	20MB
Rows	500 Note Legacy Pro and Team plans are limited to 10	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fields (columns)	50	100	100	100
Collection name character limit	50	50	50	50
Field name character limit	50	50	50	50
Page item URL character limit	350	350	350	350
Text field character limit	5000	N/A	N/A	N/A
Inner collection Rows	Not supported	Not supported	Supported	N/A
Image Collection	Supported	N/A	N/A	N/A
Update data	Site/content library publish	Automatically	Automatically every hour	Automatically

Essential Formatting Guidelines

All collections should adhere to the following guidelines:

Field Names. The first row of the collection must contain the field names (for example, Number of Rooms).
Data Type. Data must be structured correctly based on the data type.
URL Field. Must be formatted as a string and only supports lowercase characters, numbers, dashes and underscores. Special characters are not supported.
Page Item URL Field (Airtable and Google Sheets). You must select a field from the Page item URL drop-down in the collection to define the URL of each page and what appears in the editor drop-down. If you already have a text field named page_item_url in your collection, it will automatically be mapped to this drop-down. If this field is not defined, page URLs are assigned numbers (Google Sheets) or a random string (Airtable).
Page Item URL. It is recommended the URL be in a URL format (for example this-is-an-example). The URL cannot contain special characters.
Business Hours. To use Business hours you must use the following specific structure in a text field (field type: business hours):SAT, SUN: 08:00-20:00; MON, FRI: 08:00-12:00;
Location. To use Location you must use the following specific structure in a text field (field type: location):

String - streetAddress, postalCode, region, city, country

846 Kerry Way, 90017, CA, Los Angeles, US

The geo location is calculated from this string, the postal code is not mandatory but if the address is not written correctly (typos for example) we might not find it.
Nested Pages (Page Item URL; Airtable and Google Sheets). Collection names and URLs cannot contain nested pages for Airtable or Google Sheets. For example, you cannot use a page item URL with the structure example/subpage. This is supported for Internal Collections.

Available Fields

Below is a table with the data types that are available.

Note

For further details and data examples for specific collections types, please see their articles (Internal Collections, Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections, and Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections ).

For External Collections, see our developer documentation, Collection Field Types.

Data Type	Uses and Notes
Plain Text	Standard text, can be used for widgets such as title tags and text widgets.
Rich Text	Rich text contains formatting, such as colors, styles, and links. Please note, rich text will come over differently per collection type, see documentation for each collection type (Internal Collections, Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections, Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections ). Not recommended for Airtable collections.
Image	This type is for a single image only. Please note that the input methods are different per collection type, see documentation for each collection type (Internal Collections, Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections, Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections ).
Link	Pages will result in a 404 error if the URL contains a space at the beginning or end.
Number	Standard number. Can be whole numbers or decimals.
Date & Time	This field can be used for sorting when using the filters or sort functionality in the Connected Data pop-up.
Business Hours	Please note that the input methods are different per collection type, see documentation for each collection type (Internal Collections, Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections, and Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections ).
Location	Please note that the input methods are different per collection type, see documentation for each collection type (Internal Collections, Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections, and Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections ).
Video	Added with a link (Vimeo, YouTube, and Dailymotion videos are supported (videos uploaded to the editor, aren't able to be used in collections).
Email	-
Phone	-
Social Accounts	Supported social networks: email, whatsapp, facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, linkedin, yelp, pinterest, google_my_business, waze, vimeo, snapchat, reddit, tripadvisor, foursquare, rss. Please note that the input methods are different per collection type, see documentation for each collection type (Internal Collections, Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections, and Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections ).
Multi-Select	This field can be used to filter the displayed collection in widgets, such as photo gallery, list, accordion, and custom widgets that connect to collections. Please note that the input methods are different per collection type, see documentation for each collection type (Internal Collections, Dynamic Content: Google Sheets Collections, and Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections ).
Inner Collection	Only available for Airtable collections (see Dynamic Content: Airtable Collections). For Internal Collections, this is the data type Image Collection
Image Collection	Only available for Internal Collections (see Dynamic Content: Internal Collections). For Airtable, this is the data type, Inner Collections.

Add a Collection to a Site

To add a collection to a site:

In the left panel, click Content, click Collections, and then click + New Collection.
Select the type of collection you want to create.
When adding a Google Sheet or Airtable collection, define the correct data type for each field.

Lock Collection for Client Editing

You can lock a collection to prevent clients from editing it. This can be done in the editor or by using our collections API (To learn how to lock collections using our API, see our developer documentation, Collections).

To lock a collection:

In the editor, in the side panel, click Content and then click Collections.
Click the settings ()() icon next to the collection you need to lock.
Click Lock Collection.
- For Internal Collections, the following options will be available:
  - Lock completely. It will prevent the client from editing or deleting collection data in rows and fields.
  - Lock structure only. It will prevent the client from renaming, deleting, or adding fields. Clients are still able to edit content and add rows. Using the structure lock is helpful when you do not want your client to accidentally modify the fields that power your dynamic pages.
- For Google Sheets and Airtable collections, it will prevent the client from editing or deleting fields.