SXA placeholder settings not limiting renderings

Question

I've added a placeholder to a rendering variant.

When I use that variant on a page, I click on the add item button, and I get the default window with all renderings available. I have then added a placeholder setting item, and put the key in the placeholder key of the placeholder in the variant. I still see all renderings when I go to add an item.

One issue I noticed is if I try to edit the placeholder setting in the experience editor it's not picking up the correct item due to the -1-1 that are getting added to the placeholder setting

Does anyone have any idea what I need to do to correct this?

Here is my placeholder setting

And here is my placeholder in the variant

I've tried this with and without the * to indicate a dynamic placeholder.

Answer 1

You should put featurevideo* in the placeholder key of the placeholder setting.

The placeholders in the rendering variant are dynamic, which explains the -1-1 addition to the key you provided in the variant. To capture those dynamic additions, you need to use wildcards in the placeholder key.