Setting for collapsing/expanding components in the admin panel by default
Gregor Sondermeier
In an early Strapi v4 version (might have been v4.0), components inside dynamic zones were all expanded.
A little later (might have been v4.4), components were displayed collapsed and content managers had to expand each component in order to see/edit the component.
Now (v4.10), they are automatically expanded again.
For content type structures that feature a lot of components, this makes the page very very long.
It would be great if there was a setting which allows developers or content managers to configure if they want to display components automatically collapsed or expanded. Ideally there would be a system wide setting as well as a per-user setting.
Julien Maulny
Also having lot of components, some are long. Allow to collapse like this would be nice:
Or maybe display a rectangle like a deleted bloc.
jodie
Agreed.
I use multiple dynamic zones and sometimes have around 40 components on one page. This makes the process of rearranging things quite painful for the editors. I understand that you might think it's a lack of concept to have that many components, but it's quite a complex story they tell with the content.
The feedback from clients about this collapsed/expanded state is mostly frustration, they don't always see the pro-side of this you might have used as an argument to change this defailt setting (one less click to open the components).
I really think you should considers this somehow. It doesn't have to be an optional thing for editors to set, it can be a content-type-setting/component-setting if that makes things easier.
Thank you people, I really love Strapi.