UMBRACO DATA TYPE GRID UPDATE

This resulted in a feature proposal published on the Github discussion board, and we received a lot of great feedback that helped shape the editor. Updating the Grid Layout Editor was a big task and it made sense to go back to the drawing board and cover the needs with a better technological foundation. With a new backoffice tech stack in the works, all Property Editors need to be migrated, and/or rewritten.By basing it on the Block Editor technology, also used for the Block List Editor you get many of the same tools, can use the same conventions, and we have a more aligned set of Property Editors.We wanted to improve the existing (and very popular) Grid Layout Editor both in terms of development and editing experience.Introducing the Block Grid Editor serves multiple purposes. Common for the two is they use Element Types as the basis for storing data as Blocks. It provides a new editing experience a common built on the same principle as the Block List Editor. The Block Grid Editor is a new Property Editor for Umbraco CMS.

UMBRACO DATA TYPE GRID UPDATE

Update 03-02-2023: Part 2 of the Deep Dive: Block Grid Editor series is published.

Umbraco data type grid