Creating content-type for plugin not creating table in db?

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Works fine when adding content types but I can’t seem to add a new content-type to a plugin. Inspecting the DB with DB Browser for SQLite suggests that the table is not being created so I think this is the issue.

The plugin is enabled and I have been running ‘yarn build’ and ‘yarn develop’ from the plugin folder and root of the project.

Any ideas why this isn’t working

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2

You need to register the content type in your strapi-server.ts of the plugin

3

can you give an example or link to the docs re this?

If you’re talking about exporting the schema and importing that in content-type/index.js and server/index.js, I think I’ve done that

4

Example: strapi-webtools/packages/core/server/index.ts at master · pluginpal/strapi-webtools · GitHub

5

Do you have the code on github?

6

<@344388867446669315> not on github but as follows

{
  "kind": "collectionType",
  "collectionName": "bleghs",
  "info": {
    "singularName": "blegh",
    "pluralName": "bleghs",
    "displayName": "blegh"
  },
  "options": {
    "draftAndPublish": false,
    "comment": ""
  },
  "attributes": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}```
```// plugins/blah/server/content-types/blegh/index.js
'use strict';

const schema = require('./schema');

module.exports = {
  schema,
};```
```// plugins/blah/server/content-types/index.js
'use strict';

module.exports = {
  // In the line below, replace my-plugin-content-type
  // with the actual name and folder path of your content type
  "blegh": require('./blegh'),
};```
```// plugins/blah/server/index.js
'use strict';

const register = require('./register');
const bootstrap = require('./bootstrap');
const destroy = require('./destroy');
const config = require('./config');
const contentTypes = require('./content-types');
const controllers = require('./controllers');
const routes = require('./routes');
const middlewares = require('./middlewares');
const policies = require('./policies');
const services = require('./services');

module.exports = {
  register,
  bootstrap,
  destroy,
  config,
  controllers,
  routes,
  services,
  contentTypes,
  policies,
  middlewares,
};
7

I don’t see any issues

8

<@344388867446669315> Hm so I am now able to get content-type to appear, by running through the creation process on a new plugin. The only difference I can see is that the notification plugin name was the same as a previously existing content type in the root of the project. Even though I’d deleted this it must have been causing some sort of conflict