First of all thank you for great component, I will use it on upcoming project.
It works well, but there are still romm to improvement :-) and here is my suggestions:
1) Allow to specify format string, which can be used to format line in backend. It will be very nice, if you can specify product variations (with code, description, price and out of stock info) and you can format it like:
thanks very much for your kind words, much appreciated! Also very happy to hear that you are going to use it in one of your projects, that is fantastic, please let me know what experience you made with it.
Yes, there is definitely room for improvement ;), which is exactly why I put it out at this stage: it's more than useful as it is, and this way I'll get some very valuable feedback from the community, exactly what you did with your post, so thanks very much for that. As to your suggestions:
1. Haven't though about that yet, but it quite intriguing. Kind of like a default rendering template for the data type, which means you just place an umbraco:Item on your template and it will know how to render. Nice idea, I'll definitely have a look at that.
2. Yup, that's pretty much the next thing on my agenda, expect this to be ready for the next release. ;)
3. Extending the range of controls is also high up in the list, yes. The upload control is probably quite straightforward to implement, yet to add other data types that have been dynamically added to Umbraco might be a bit tricky in terms of consistency. E.g. what happens if you uninstall uComponents and the control is not available anymore? But I'll have a thought about this for sure, so thanks for the input!
4. Not as of now but we'll discuss this next week. One option might be to use collaboration pretty much like the uComponents, aka the source is open for everybody who wants to contribute but not to the general public. I'll let you know as soon as I got more on that.
Thanks for such fast new version, now when I use it I have another one suggestion :-)
When I editing data. should be fine if edited row is visually different. Now When I choose edit, nothing happen visually (only values changed), maybe changing background of edited row can help, and also maybe whole line can be used as edit link.
Hehe :) Nice idea indeed, I even expanded a bit on it, hope you will like it once I've uploaded the new version. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, it helps the user experience quite a bit I think!
i'm using the repeatable custom content and i think this kind of functionality should be part of the umbraco core:
there are 2 concept that i know from umbraco and magento, that i will be so happy to see in future version of umbraco:
1. fields group: a several data types can be grouped to single fields group. ("complex data type"). for example, "banner" group that contains image, link and duration.
2. every data type in the system can be repeatable. also fields group can be repeatable. you can also set limit for example, you can add max 5 banners per content node.
as you see, with the combination of this two feature - we get all the functionality that we need.
you can see the drupal example for this here. (the relevant stuff starts at minute 4).
what do you think? you think it need to be in the core?
Great component, some suggestions
First of all thank you for great component, I will use it on upcoming project.
It works well, but there are still romm to improvement :-) and here is my suggestions:
1) Allow to specify format string, which can be used to format line in backend. It will be very nice, if you can specify product variations (with code, description, price and out of stock info) and you can format it like:
<div class='{0:outofstock;ok;ok}'><em>{0}</em>:<small>{1}</small><strong class='price'>{2}</strong></div>
Following line add class outofstock if product is not in stock and also format whole line.
2) Support for mandatory and validation will be fine.
3) Is it possible to add support for aditional properties, like upload or uComponent filepicker?
4) Is sources available?
Once again, thanks for this component.
Petr
Oops small bug in code line
Hi Petr,
thanks very much for your kind words, much appreciated! Also very happy to hear that you are going to use it in one of your projects, that is fantastic, please let me know what experience you made with it.
Yes, there is definitely room for improvement ;), which is exactly why I put it out at this stage: it's more than useful as it is, and this way I'll get some very valuable feedback from the community, exactly what you did with your post, so thanks very much for that. As to your suggestions:
1. Haven't though about that yet, but it quite intriguing. Kind of like a default rendering template for the data type, which means you just place an umbraco:Item on your template and it will know how to render. Nice idea, I'll definitely have a look at that.
2. Yup, that's pretty much the next thing on my agenda, expect this to be ready for the next release. ;)
3. Extending the range of controls is also high up in the list, yes. The upload control is probably quite straightforward to implement, yet to add other data types that have been dynamically added to Umbraco might be a bit tricky in terms of consistency. E.g. what happens if you uninstall uComponents and the control is not available anymore? But I'll have a thought about this for sure, so thanks for the input!
4. Not as of now but we'll discuss this next week. One option might be to use collaboration pretty much like the uComponents, aka the source is open for everybody who wants to contribute but not to the general public. I'll let you know as soon as I got more on that.
Again, thanks a lot for your comments!
Sascha
Also please add support to hide label, to enable embeded content to fill whole tab (like TinyMCE)
Petr
Good idea, will have a look into that, thanks!
Hi Petr,
have just released version 1.01 with the hide label functionality implemented (plus a couple of bug fixes). Really nice idea with the label hider. :)
Cheers,
Sascha
Hi Sascha,
Thanks for such fast new version, now when I use it I have another one suggestion :-)
When I editing data. should be fine if edited row is visually different. Now When I choose edit, nothing happen visually (only values changed), maybe changing background of edited row can help, and also maybe whole line can be used as edit link.
Petr
Hehe :) Nice idea indeed, I even expanded a bit on it, hope you will like it once I've uploaded the new version. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, it helps the user experience quite a bit I think!
Cheers!
Hi Petr,
new version is out: 1.03. Have a look, I have a feeling you'll like the additions. :)
Have a good weekend,
Sascha
thanks for the nice package.
i'm using the repeatable custom content and i think this kind of functionality should be part of the umbraco core:
there are 2 concept that i know from umbraco and magento, that i will be so happy to see in future version of umbraco:
1. fields group: a several data types can be grouped to single fields group. ("complex data type").
for example, "banner" group that contains image, link and duration.
2. every data type in the system can be repeatable. also fields group can be repeatable. you can also set limit
for example, you can add max 5 banners per content node.
as you see, with the combination of this two feature - we get all the functionality that we need.
you can see the drupal example for this here. (the relevant stuff starts at minute 4).
what do you think? you think it need to be in the core?
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