Boost editor workflows with our new Initial Values

Written by Even Westvang, Espen Hovlandsdal, Victoria Bergquist

With the newest version of Sanity Studio, you can now set initial values for all your document types. It’s a great way to save your editors time and effort spent on repetitive tasks. Initial Values lets you do things like:

• Start a new blog post with the current time as the publish date.
• Make sure that a certain category is set for all new projects in a portfolio.
• Record your geolocation when you create a new report for your scientific intranet.
• Create a selection of product types to choose from, with different currencies and shipment methods predefined for your e-commerce platform.
• Pretty much set any initial value for any field to anything you would want it to be.

To try it out Initial Values, upgrade your Sanity Studio by running this command in the studio folder: