Support limit: false for pages section

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Support limit: false for pages section #577

Open hdodov opened 4 years ago

hdodov commented 4 years ago

I want to display all pages in the main column in the panel without pagination. I've set the other column to sticky and I want the user to be able to freely scroll all entries.

Currently, I can do this with the following blueprint:

sections:
  entries:
    type: pages
    limit: 9999

It would be much more intuitive to have this instead:

sections:
  entries:
    type: pages
    limit: false

It would be great to have this functionality for all other places where you have pagination.

Edit: Related #429

lukasbestle commented 4 years ago

I think this needs an infinite scrolling (lazy-loading) feature to be useful. Loading all items can be a huge performance problem if there are more pages than originally expected after a while of use. Users often don't realize that the reason why the Panel becomes slower or even non-functional is the huge list of pages.

So the best way to implement your idea as well as #429 would probably be a new pagination option that can have the following values:

true: Display pagination (default)
false: Hide pagination and hard-limit the list to the specified limit (#429)
'auto': Automatic infinite scrolling

hdodov commented 4 years ago

@lukasbestle yeah, lazy-loading will definitely be nice. But in my case, I know for a fact that there will be no more than about 50 pages, which is why I wanted to disable the limit. Now that I think of it, perhaps setting something like limit: 60 makes the most sense for my case. But lazy-loading and limit: false will definitely be nice to have.