Hello everybody,
I have a custom page type (event) that I made a custom modal page creation form in Admin for, almost exactly as described in the docs. It works well so far, but I would like to add some frontmatter fields to it since that is where most of the event information is stored.
However, while I can add those fields alright and fill them out, they do not get saved. After clicking “continue” I am taken to basically the same form with the title filled out and the fields that should have been saved as frontmatter empty.
I have noticed that the page creation modal does not seem to actually create the page – that seems to happen only after clicking save in the second form. That does explain why I can’t save frontmatter before that 
however, this is not what I want. I would like an easy way of creating new events in one step. If I can’t do that with the modal, I really would like to skip that step altogether and have a button that takes me to a new event creation page straight away. Does anybody know how to achieve this? Either have a modal that actually creates a folder and file, or else be taken to a nonmodal page creation form directly?
Thank you for your ideas!