Is it possible to group the fields in a model? Currently it’s just a list with fields. Would be nice to give editors a bit more info how fields are related to another and make the UI for them easier to understand.
Originally posted by info@cantierecreativo.net
Yes please! – with a way to then collapse the group or even start it in a collapsed state. Tabs another good approach.
Originally posted by webmaster@convincible.media
Just an idea
Vertical tabs for the models
Horizontal tabs for the different languages
Or reverse
Originally posted by jan@digitaler-spinat.com
Would definitely love this! We already added this to our internal DatoCMS Wishlist so I was happy this request has already been raised 
This feature could bring a great improvement to the GraphQL API too — if grouped fields were nested under the group name you could model the exact structure you want to get out of the API. As far as I can tell GraphQL doesn’t support introducing arbitrary nesting of fields in its query syntax, so often I’ve had to pull data from the GraphQL API and then transform it around a bit to get the structure I want.
Is this feature still on the cards? I’m just working on some models which represent long pages with lots of sections, and due to the low contrast of Dato’s form UI (both in terms colour, and sizing and spacing), it’s really really hard to scan the page and see which field you’re after.
The project isn’t public so I can’t share, but you can imagine a long page with 30+ fields of all sorts, text, multiline, galleries, seo, modular, etc.
Improved colour and size contrast, vertical separators elements, etc could all help. But I agree with the above that the most straightforward solution is horizontal tabs across the top. The content of each tab wouldn’t get too long, and users would understand what each tab is for with a simple text label.
It would also allow us to train users what to expect in different models — eg. if a model has an associated SEO field, then it’s always the first tab on the left labelled ‘metadata’ with a title and summary field.
@webworkshop @floris.tenhove one simple way to manage this is to write a simple field-addon plugin: https://www.datocms.com/docs/guides/building-plugins#field-addon-plugins in which you can draw a separator.
Then you can have another plugin to show a “section header” in which you can create your own title and section.
We’ve seen very complex pages that are nicely structured and much more scannable.
I’m mentioning this as a workaround, we’ll surely need to implement something on our side as well!
Thanks @mat_jack1 the separator is a great idea for a workaround. I’ll make it public when I get a chance to put something together.
It would be really good to have the ability to add Headers and blocks of text within the Model to announce sections - these dont need to be within the model data schema but just decorations that can be added to make the model content editor more organised and clean. Grouping via tabbing (similar to the locals) would be awesome, or a colour coded line on the left side of the content editor to group fields together would also be awesome here.
