[Craft 4] Please add 'Collapse All' and 'Expand all' to core of Craft

[bencresty]

The matrixtoolbar plugin is out of updates for a long time now and is broken since a long time while the developer doesn't respond to requests and even a PR by @brandonkelly .

Because of this we are lacking 'Collapse all' and 'Expand all' on all our projects on all our matrix fields. We really miss this feature and while on all our pages we use matrix fields to have lots of blocks for content on each page, it's not fun to need to close or open all blocks by hand. That's basically impossible in a normal workflow.

IMO the `Collapse all' and 'Expand all' features are basic features we always want and shouldn't be optional by installing a plugin.

Please, could the 'Collapse all' and 'Expand all' features be added to the core of Craft 4 for making working with matrix blocks easier?

That would be very, very helpful!

Thanks in advance!

[anvart]

MatrixToolbar plugin was great. The only downside was that all the actions there are hidden behind a dropdown. Would be much nicer to have all (or make it configurable) the controls visible and reachable without extra clicks.

[ttempleton]

Please pardon the shameless self-promotion here, but until this functionality is in-built in Craft, we at Spicy Web maintain the Batch Actions plugin for Craft 4, which is a replacement for Matrix Toolbar and which also supports Neo.

[anvart]

Looks nice! Thanks for the promotion, I'll try it now.

[jacobgraf]

This is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for us as our Structures and nesting grows. Search is getting better and better, but sometimes you WANT to visualize the hierarchy and, as-is, you have to go down the whole thing and select each one by one. This should be a core feature by now. Please consider adding it soon. I get anxiety anytime I need to hop into a Structure because it's a jumbled mess of expanded/collapsed items.

[brandonkelly]

There is no way to do it currently that scales for extremely large structures, which is something we have to keep in mind. I have some thoughts on how we could pull it off but it will require a major refactor that would need to wait for 5.0.

[jacobgraf]

@brandonkelly Argh. Is there any way to add a (maybe) simpler option of being able to specify in the Structure settings to always be collapsed by default? For us, we'd rather start with a totally collapsed Structure instead of a jumbled mess of open/closed items to start with.

If it's easy, maybe even being able to specify if each level should be collapsed or expanded by default would help.

In the meantime, your 4.4 fixes for seeing parent/ancestors will help too. Any idea when 4.4 will land?

[lauriechu]

I vote for content blocks collapsed as the default. We're currently working in Craft 5.4.9 and still no solution?