Hi everyone, thanks for the great response. After a day playing I am really confident that Elements is the thing for me to go. Here are a few feedbacks: Documentation Would be nice to have a schema definition for the properties.json thrown into the Elements documentation. At the moment its a try …

How To? How to add a link to a Page inside a “Custom Component” Solution: Dev Packs Github Repo

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Schema definition: [image] Properties.json | RapidWeaver Elements Docs

Bugs Defaults for text/number properties in the properties.json is not showing up. Defaults will only show up when you drag the component new into Elements. If you are developing a component, changing the defaults will not reset the component. (Personally I prefer it, this way)

Thanks for all this feedback, very useful and it’s so nice to see how fast you’ve been moving with Elements :exploding_head: btw. Were you a RapidWeaver Classic user previously? or did you just stumble across Elements as a new user?

I used classic like 10 years ago maybe? Was using it to help my dad with his webpage at that time. When we found our company 3 years ago I wrote all by hand and then realized how handy it was with Classic, without hosting a whole wordpress thing. But when I read about elements I was, ok lets wait ti…

[image] Beblebroks: How to create a “Gallery” of “Sub-Pages” Instead of having just one menu would be great to get a list of subpages for products. Thinking about something like a “Shop” or “Blog” but not Database driven just static pages like in Classic. At the moment I can only access “pages”…

Hi @ben yeah that one I figured already out. link I was just wondering since I might need custom props, preview images or also custom text for my “Gallery”. And that I am not sure how to access without anything available on the “Page Level”

I also started using Elements just yesterday. As a former User of RW Classic, it was pretty intuitive and familiar to start. That’s the good news. But since I’ve not been into web design for a few years, I’ll have to practice a little bit with new methods.

Hi @ben I tried this out. But apparently the title can not be inserted dynamically. Since pages do not maintain a unique identifier I am a bit reluctant to use this as a concept. Reordering would not work, since the dropzone name is based on the index. Dropzone ID is not recognized as unique. So…

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