# Objects type for theme setting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009
**Category:** Developer Guides
**Tags:** how-to, theme-guides
**Created:** [April 23, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009 "2024-04-23T06:24:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@mdoggydog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mdoggydog)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/24 "2025-02-08T04:24:14Z")
> [@tgxworld](#):
>
> Reordering is certainly something that has been brought up internally as well. I’ll try to land that this week.
Narrator: “It was not landed that week.” 🙃
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/25 "2025-07-22T08:15:43Z")
> [@tgxworld](#):
>
> Reordering is certainly something that has been brought up internally as well. I’ll try to land that this week.
Is there any change on this? I just re-wrote a component for someone using objects type and they are unhappy that they can’t reorder.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/26 "2025-07-27T15:44:38Z")
Hey @awesomerobot do you think this going to get onto someone’s list any time soon? It doesn’t seem like anyone from team has looked at this in a year.
Also, it’s pretty terrible that they are all named “field\_name-X”. Would it be possible to have a field name that could get used there? Having to click every single one to see what’s there is a nightmare if you have more than a couple objects.
If we can’t re-order the items and you can’t tell what they are without clicking on them, I’m likely going to have to go back to using a single string setting with multiple values separated with, uh, some character to separate the different fields. And I think with the old-style arrays you could re-order stuff, right? So this objects type seems like a step backward for everyone except programmers.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/27 "2025-07-28T14:31:38Z")
I don’t think there’s anything in process for reordering at the moment, though it’s still something we’d like to include. Renaming is already possible with the `identifier` property. For example, from the custom header links theme component
>
The name field is set as the identifier for each link, so you can see which link is which
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/28 "2025-07-28T21:47:34Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
>
> Renaming is already possible with the `identifier` property
Hooray. I thought I must have overlooked that but have not managed to find it before. Thanks!
EDIT: And now I used the `identifier` property and added an ‘order’ field, so it’s not too bad. I still think being able to reorder settings would be nice, and it’s available with arrays. . .
Thanks again for your help
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### Author:  [@markvanlan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markvanlan)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/30 "2025-09-29T14:32:53Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> EDIT: And now I used the `identifier` property and added an ‘order’ field, so it’s not too bad. I still think being able to reorder settings would be nice, and it’s available with arrays. . .
I made [a commit](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7ec6ffe3084445b7afbfb0f25e2f5e605952a1a7) a bit ago that adds re-ordering for objects. Here is a little test setting to show the buttons:
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### Author:  [@gabriel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gabriel)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/31 "2025-12-02T14:43:56Z")
I think it is worth announcing that we got `uploads` as a field type option now, and I think it was mentioned somewhere, but it is nice to mention again that `type: objects` works on both theme settings and in site settings(plugins)
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/32 "2026-03-09T02:45:51Z")
The correct one should be `upload`
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/33 "2026-03-10T01:38:02Z")
Thank you! Will be fixed in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38398](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38398)
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2026, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/34 "2026-03-18T08:17:24Z")
Does the `objects` type support a `max` limit? I tried it, but it seems it doesn’t.
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### Author:  [@gormus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gormus)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/35 "2026-04-12T18:38:00Z")
Do you mean like for a `string` type field in a objects tree?
Try `max_length`…
See [#Validations for `string` types](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009?silent=true#p-1502383-validations-for-string-types-4) on this topic; or a working example:
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/36 "2026-04-12T18:58:22Z")
I think he’s referring to:
> [@gormus](#):
>
> ` type: objects`
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/objects-type-for-theme-setting/305009/37 "2026-04-13T01:45:38Z")
Yes, I am referring to limiting the maximum number of items in the `objects` array.
Currently, this is not supported out of the box, so I extended the functionality in a custom private theme component. Here is the configuration (for reference only):
Configuration for maximum array count limit:
`themes/quectel-custom-homepage/settings.yml`
```yaml
banner_images:
type: objects
default: []
schema:
name: "Carousel"
max: 9 // New extended configuration to limit the maximum number of items in the array
identifier: image_url
properties:
image_url:
type: upload
required: true
link_url:
type: string
min: 0
max: 1023
```
Extended code:
`themes/quectel-custom-homepage/javascripts/discourse/api-initializers/quectel-custom-homepage.gjs`
```glimmer-javascript
import { action } from "@ember/object";
import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api";
import classPrepend from "discourse/lib/class-prepend";
import { i18n } from "discourse-i18n";
export default apiInitializer(() => {
// Use classPrepend to extend the SchemaSettingNewEditor component to support the max limit for objects type
// Load this component only in the admin context
let SchemaSettingNewEditor;
try {
SchemaSettingNewEditor =
require("discourse/admin/components/schema-setting/editor").default;
} catch {
// Non-admin users cannot load this component, skip extension
return;
}
classPrepend(SchemaSettingNewEditor, (Superclass) => {
return class extends Superclass {
@action
addItem() {
// Check if the max limit is reached
const maxLimit = this.args.setting.max || this.activeSchema?.max;
if (maxLimit && this.activeData.length >= maxLimit) {
this.validationErrorMessage = i18n(
themePrefix("theme_settings.errors.objects_value_not_valid_max"),
{
count: maxLimit,
}
);
return;
}
return super.addItem(...arguments);
}
@action
addChildItem(propertyName, parentNodeIndex) {
const propertySchema = this.activeSchema.properties[propertyName];
// Check if the max limit is reached
if (
propertySchema?.max &&
this.activeData[parentNodeIndex][propertyName].length >=
propertySchema.max
) {
this.validationErrorMessage = i18n(
themePrefix("theme_settings.errors.objects_value_not_valid_max"),
{
count: propertySchema.max,
}
);
return;
}
return super.addChildItem(...arguments);
}
};
});
});
```
Theme translation configuration:
`themes/quectel-custom-homepage/locales/en.yml`
```yaml
en:
theme_settings:
errors:
objects_value_not_valid_max: "The number cannot exceed %{count}"
```
Actual effect:
1. Error message
2. Unable to add more items
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