Fieldsets in blocks?

✋ Feature Requests
1

Title is pretty self-explanatory – I get a lot of use out of fieldsets in models, but the lack of fieldsets in blocks is kind of a bummer! Any chance we could get that functionality?

2

I often find myself looking for this feature too, would love to see this addition.

3

This feature would be awesome.
Is there any trick to group fields in blocks?

It would be crazy to be able to create fieldset, such as :

  • Styling
  • Content
  • Others

Please, add it ! :slight_smile:

4

You can find my investigations here : Fieldsets in blocks

Thanks for this !
Let’s add this feature ! :slight_smile: :pray:

7

Hello,

I’m back with another feature request.

I have a “Proof of Concept” that you can view here: https://www.loom.com/share/93564df494a644c986220d823a5aca50

This was accomplished by combining the Visual Select Plugin and the Dropdown Conditional field. While it works, the user interface is not very clean (I would even say it’s quite ugly :p).

One of my main concerns with “fieldsets in block” is ensuring that the model remains unaltered. We created a plugin for this and even experimented with modular content, but in both cases, the Block schema was altered.

@roger and the entire Dato support team, I’m considering developing a plugin to achieve this.

This would involve manipulating the DOM (at least moving input and related fields into divs), and I’m unsure if this is a good approach. I would appreciate your opinion on this before I begin any development.

Please consider adding this as a native feature :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks a lot!

8

Yes, I hope this gets added too! We’re doing a lot of UI work over the next few months and hopefully this can be added at some point, but it’s not currently scoped yet AFAIK.

I don’t think direct manipulation of the DOM is a good idea, because unexpected (and unannounced) changes to the CMS would probably break your code :frowning:

There are probably other ways to kinda hack this functionality together, like grouping sub-blocks into a parent block, or using field editor plugins to render empty fields with a custom header text… but they are hacks.

Better to wait for an official implementation, I’d say… sorry I don’t have any news on this front to announce right now!