Helper function that creates an empty named list for property configurations that require no additional settings.
Many database properties like text, checkbox and date
do not need configuration settings.
This function returns the empty configuration ({} in JSON)
that these properties expect.
Value
An empty named list that serialises to {} in JSON
Examples
notion <- notion_client()
# ----- create a database
notion$databases$create(
parent = list(page_id = "23933ea0-c1e4-81d6-a6f6-dd5b57ad4aba"),
title = list(
list(
type = "text",
text = list(
content = "Grocery list"
)
)
),
properties = list(
Name = list(
title = no_config()
),
`In stock` = list(
checkbox = no_config()
)
)
)
#> {
#> "object": "database",
#> "id": "23933ea0-c1e4-8136-b37b-fa235c6f2a71",
#> "cover": {},
#> "icon": {},
#> "created_time": "2025-07-23T05:01:00.000Z",
#> "created_by": {
#> "object": "user",
#> "id": "6b786605-e456-4237-9c61-5efaff23c081"
#> },
#> "last_edited_by": {
#> "object": "user",
#> "id": "6b786605-e456-4237-9c61-5efaff23c081"
#> },
#> "last_edited_time": "2025-07-23T05:01:00.000Z",
#> "title": [
#> {
#> "type": "text",
#> "text": {
#> "content": "Grocery list",
#> "link": {}
#> },
#> "annotations": {
#> "bold": false,
#> "italic": false,
#> "strikethrough": false,
#> "underline": false,
#> "code": false,
#> "color": "default"
#> },
#> "plain_text": "Grocery list",
#> "href": {}
#> }
#> ],
#> "description": [],
#> "is_inline": false,
#> "properties": {
#> "In stock": {
#> "id": "q%3BL%5E",
#> "name": "In stock",
#> "type": "checkbox",
#> "checkbox": {}
#> },
#> "Name": {
#> "id": "title",
#> "name": "Name",
#> "type": "title",
#> "title": {}
#> }
#> },
#> "parent": {
#> "type": "page_id",
#> "page_id": "23933ea0-c1e4-81d6-a6f6-dd5b57ad4aba"
#> },
#> "url": "https://www.notion.so/23933ea0c1e48136b37bfa235c6f2a71",
#> "public_url": {},
#> "archived": false,
#> "in_trash": false,
#> "request_id": "c3a4224b-5923-46c2-9497-c5527eb10b92"
#> }