Just one thing I’m missing in Elements at the moment

I am currently completing development of and testing my Blog replacement for Foundry Alloy 3.

I first of all got it working in standalone mode as I was using ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Le Chat (Mistral) to develop the code and I didn’t want to confuse them (and me!) with using Elements. The primary aim I started with was to be able to easily migrate my current Alloy posts to Elements along with the ability to Add and Edit new posts etc.

Now that I have got this working well, I am well into the migration of this into Elements Component DevPacks. Whilst at first sight this should be comparatively easy, I am having to spend time generalising it and setting up Component Properties so that users other than myself can configure the Blog to their liking. I found too many places in the code where I had made default assumptions that worked well in my usage case but probably (make that definitely!) wouldn’t for others.

It will be at least another few weeks (probably) before it is ready for alpha testing (wouldn’t dare call it a beta :wink: ). However, as you might see from other of my posts, it is also dependant on some outstanding Elements feature/bug fixes.

At the moment, there are five components in the Dynamic component group:

  • Configure Blog
  • List Blog Posts
  • View Blog Post
  • Edit Blog Post
  • Blog Carousel

Just thought I would give a quick update to say that work is still actively progressing on this. :slight_smile:

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