I'm trying to make a shaped recipe that can be crafted anywhere in the crafting grid. For example: I want this to be able to be crafted like this

and this

(like the vanilla iron bars recipe is). Do I have to make a recipe for each possible combination of that shaped recipe (in this case there would be 2 combinations), or is there a build in way of defining a recipe to be like this? (if not, there should be)

It's automated (I mean I think so). You don't have to do anything. Simply make:

 

XXX

XXX

 

Recipe should work for any place.

OH! I am an idiot and did "  ", "xxx", "xxx" with the blank line! Thanks!