Better UI for configuring settings and styles in a grid data type

[skttl]

When adding settings and styles options to a grid data type, you need to maintain a JSON object in a textarea. This is cumbersome and errorprone.

What I would suggest, is to use the UI from Nested Content to handle these things.

Then you could have an "add option" button, and a simple UI for setting label, description, key etc.

You could even have different types for the builtin views (textstring, textarea, radiobuttonlist, mediapicker, etc.) so ie. a prevalues field only were available when needed.

[nul800sebastiaan]

Thanks for the feature request, we'll discuss it at HQ and get back to you!

[nul800sebastiaan]

Thanks for the idea @skttl - after a chat at HQ we concluded that yes, your concern is legitimate and the good news is that we've worked on easily providing any property editor as a grid editor. You can follow (or help) the progress in this branch for "The Grid v2".

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/tree/temp8-grid2

[skttl]

Thanks for getting back. I'm not sure that we are thinking about the same thing.

I am thinking about this part of the grid prevalue editor:
https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Getting-Started/Backoffice/Property-Editors/Built-in-Property-Editors/Grid-Layout/Settings-and-styles

[nul800sebastiaan]

Yep, that was part of the Grid2 work too!