Dynamically generate layout name?

[spekulatius]

Hello @Nyratas

Thanks for building this useful component!

Is it possible to change the title/name of the layout on the fly? Here "Entry":

If this isn't possible currently, I would wonder if there are plans to implement such a feature. It would be great if one collects data (myself for example) and wants to label them.

Cheers!

[voidgraphics]

Hi @spekulatius, this is currently not possible. However it would be a nice addition to the package, we just have to figure out how to make it work. Do you have any suggestions on how you would want it to work?

[spekulatius]

Hey @voidgraphics,

That's okay. I wasn't expecting to have a solution ready. Great you consider it as a potential enhancement :+1:

I thought about a method on the layout for this. The 'title' method exists & works to overwrite the title, but to make it useful it would require to have the current data within the layout. Not sure how this can be achieve easiest. Any idea? From there on it would be doable and pretty easy.

Peter

[toonvandenbos]

Hi @spekulatius,

Do you want to use a field's value as the title for the layout ? Or do you want to set it in when defining the layout with a title() method ?

[spekulatius]

I want to use part of a fields data/values (a date) as the title.

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[voidgraphics]

Maybe a title function on the layout class could work, and would take precedent over the title attribute if it is defined.

The method would be able to access all the values stored in the layout, allowing the developer to format the title string however they want with all the values.

@Nyratas that should be doable, right?

Edit: Sort of like in regular nova resources

[spekulatius]

Yeah, the title function takes precedent over the variable. But the data isn't available. I've tried to access it directly as described in the link you shared @voidgraphics - no luck. I guess the data is populated differently or later in case of an layout vs. Nova resource, is it?

[toonvandenbos]

@spekulatius the behavior @voidgraphics describes has not yet been defined, it was a suggestion.

@voidgraphics I agree, good idea.

[spekulatius]

oh, okay. haha. I read it as it could (should) work like this. Sorry. Yeah - that would be awesome

[bernhardh]

I was looking for this feature as well. Any updates on this?

[Blindmikey]

This would be particularly useful when a client has several collapsed groups. Otherwise currently they just see a bunch of collapsed groups all with the same name. eg) "Entry".

As a dev coming from WP/ACF, this would be really helpful https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/repeater/

- Collapsed
Enables each row to be collapsed by specifying a single sub field to display.

Also, storing collapsed fields in session management so revisiting the page doesn't have all of the collapsed fields expanded again.

[bastihilger]

If this isn't in the making already, I would like to write a PR for this.

[scramatte]

Any chance to get PR for this ?

[bastihilger]

Sorry - ATM I am working with a fork because I had to implement a lot of custom features rather quickly and could not wait for PRs to be accepted (don't get me wrong - I am not blaming the maintainers for anything here, I know how it is, but for me the fork was the best way back in April). Maybe some day I will try to "re-PR" some of the features back into this repo, but no time right now unfortunately.

[scramatte]

@manogi Can you give me access to the fork?

[riptin]

Any progress on this? It would be a great addition, since when there are many entries and the fields are collapsed, it gets really hard to find what you are looking for.